湖南科技大学考试试题纸（A卷）
(2009 -2010学年第2 学期)
英语语言学概论 课程 英 语 专业 07级英语教育2-5班 班级
考试时量 100分钟 学生人数 命题教师 周启强 系主任
交题时间：2010 年6月10日 考试时间： 年 月 日
I. Fill in the blank with ONE word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to write down the whole word on your answer sheet without changing the letter given: (15*2=30 points)
1. That the denial of one member of two words implies the assertion of the other is the characteristic of c______ antonyms.
2. The word which is more general in meaning is called the superordinate, and the more specific words are called its h______.
3. The sentence “John smokes” may be analysed as S(j) in terms of predication, where S represents the predicate and j an a____.
4. According to Searle’s classification of illocutionary acts, “to suggest that someone should see the doctor” should fall into the category of d______.
5. C______ analysis is a way proposed by the structural semanticists to analyze word meaning.
6. Some English learners will invent such words as “teached”, “hitted” , etc. by imitating the regular past form of the English verb. This error is said to result from o .
7. When a group of people come to take a pidgin as their mother tongue, it becomes a c language.
8. According to Leech, taboos and euphemisms often result from the r_____ meaning of some words relevant to death, sex, etc. .
9. In making conversation, the generally principle that all participants are expected to observe is called the C Principle proposed by J. Grice.
10. The sentence \three apples yesterday\p ____ the sentence \
bought some fruit yesterday.\
11. The phenomenon that a word may have several related senses is called p______. 12. Linguistic D____ is a theory which believes that our language will decide our way of looking at the world.
13. The level of syntactic representation after the transformational process is usually termed s___ structure.
14. At first, J. Austin made a distinction between performatives and c____, which he finally gave up for a variety of reasons.
15. In their course of language acquisition, children's utterances are one-word sentences, which are called the h_____ stage.
II. Match the linguists in Column A with the important works or papers on
linguistics in Column B. (10*1=10 points)
A
16. L. Bloomfield 17. N. Chomsky 18. Austin
19. M. A. K. Halliday 20. C. Fillmore 21. H. P. Grice 22. F. de. Saussure
23. C. K. Ogden & I. A Richards
B
a. Course in General Linguistics b. The Meaning of Meaning c. The Case for Case d. Logic and Conversation e. Syntactic Structures f. Language
g. How to Do Things with Words h. An Introduction to Functional Grammar
III. Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Write a T for true and an F for false on your answer sheet: (10*1=10 points) 26. Locutionary act expresses the intention of the speaker.
27. Speech variety refers to any form of speech used by a speaker or a group of speakers.
28. Social factors cannot be included in our description of language and language use. 29. Human capacity for language has a genetic basis, i.e. we are all born with the ability to acquire language and the details of a language system are genetically transmitted.
30.Culture in a narrow sense refers to culture that is concrete, substantial and observable.
31. The study objects of both semantics and pragmatics are meaning, with semantics focusing on meaning in context and pragmatics static meaning.
32. If G = girl, P = pretty, the sentence \
?x(G(x)&P(x)).
IV. Analyse linguistic data and finish the subsequent tasks as required. 36. Noam Chomsky has been quoted as saying:
It is about as likely that an ape will prove to have a language ability as that
there is an island somewhere with a species of flightless birds waiting for human beings to teach them to fly.
Does Chomsky think that an ape can be taught to master a human language? Do
you agree or disagree with him? Make a comment on his remark.
37. The following is a conversation between a boy and a girl: Boy: Do you love me. Girl: En... I like you very much.
1) What is the conversational complicature in the girl's reply?
2) Explain why there is such an implicature in terms of a pragmatic theory you
are familiar with.
3) Imagine an occasion on which the implicature is defeased.
38. The following sentences may be SEMANTICALLY or STRUTRUALLY
ambiguous. Explain the ambiguity by providing two sentences that paraphrase the multiple meanings. 1) He waited by the bank. 2) Is he really that kind? 3) You should see her shop. 4) Every man loves a woman.
座位号 湖南师范大学2006—2007学年第二学期2004级期末/补考/重修
英语语言学答题纸
课程代码：05023032 考核方式: 笔试闭卷 考试时量：100 分钟 试卷类型：A
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