2012-2016年三峡大学《894语言学及应用语言学》历年考研真题汇总.docxVIP

第1页共 3 页 三 峡 大 学 2012年研究生入学考试试题(A卷) 科目代码： 894 科目名称： 语言学及应用语言学 考试时间：3小时 总分：150分 （考生必须将答案写在答题纸上并标明题号） True or False statements：There are 10 statements. Please make decisions whether they are true or false (T for true and F for false) (20 points). 1. Language is creative by which we mean language is resourceful because of its duality and its recursiveness. ( ) 2. Phonetics studies the rules governing the structure, distribution and sequencing of speech sounds and the shape of syllables. ( ) 3. Pragmatics examines how meaning is encoded in a language. It is not only concerned with meanings of words as lexical items, but also with levels of language below the word and above it, e.g., meanings of morphemes and sentences. ( ) 4. Saussure distinguished the linguistic competence of the speaker and the actual phenomena or data of linguistics (utterances) as “Langue and Parole”. ( ) 5. Grammatical words are known as content words while lexical words are known as function words.( ) 6. Antonymy is the technical name for the sameness relation while synonymy is the name for oppositeness.( ) 7. Applied linguistics studies psychological aspects of language. It usually studies the psychological states and mental activity associated with the use of language.( ) 8. Language is an indispensable carrier of culture. Culture finds a better representation through language use. ( ) 9. The concept of Communicative Competence was proposed by Halliday. ( ) 10. Modern linguistics began from the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure who is often described as “father of modern linguistics”. ( ) II. Multiple choices: There are 4 choices in each statement marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is the most suitable for the statement (20 points). 1. ____________ put forward the Speech Act Theory. A. Austin B. Halliday C. Saussure D. Kachru 2. At present, there are about _________ distinct languages. A. 5800 B. 6800 C