最新1月全国自考现代语言学试题及答案解析.docx

??????????????????????精品自学考 料推荐?????????????????? 全国 2018 年 1 月自学考试 现代语言学试题 课程代码： 00830 I . Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C, or D in the brackets. ( 2% × 10=20% ) 1. The language behavior of particular persons on particular occasions is determined by many other factors over and above their linguistic ______. ( ) A. system B. structure C. competence D. performance 2. When we pronounce the long vowels [i:] or [u:], our ______, which is a bony structure at the end of the windpipe, is in a state of tension. ( ) A. larynx B. hard palate C. glottis D. vocal cords 3. The word “ manuscript ” is a two-morpheme cluster which contains ______. ( ) A. two roots B. a root and a prefix C. a root and a suffix D. a root and a free morpheme 4. The grammatical knowledge is represented through Phrase Structure Rules, which state explicitly all and only the possible combinations of the ______ of a language, for example, in English, NP → ( Det ) (Adj) N (PP) (S). ) A. phrases B. clauses C. sentences D. constituents 5. The view that the meaning of a linguistic form is defined as the “ situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer ” was proposed by ______. ( ) A. Plato B. Ogden and Richards C. John Firth D. Bloomfield 6. According to John Austins theory of speech act, a(n) ______ act is the change brought about by the utterance. ( ) 1 ??????????????????????精品自学考 料推荐?????????????????? A. prelocutionary B. locutionary C. illocutionary D. perlocutionary 7. In 1786, Sir William Jones suggested that ______ bore to Greek and Latin a stronger affinity than could possibly have been produced by accident. （ ） A. Germanic B. Persian C. Sanskrit D. Lithuanian The existence of taboo words and taboo ideas stimulates the creation of euphemism, which shows that a word or phrase not only has a linguistic denotative meaning but also h