新编简明英语语言学教程笔记
Chapter one Introduction
一、定义
1.语言学Linguistics
Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.
2.普通语言学General Linguistics
The study of language as a whole is often called General linguistics.
3.语言language
Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.
语言是人类用来交际的任意性的有声符号体系。
4.识别特征Design Features
It refers to the defining poperties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication.
Arbitrariness任意性 Productivity多产性 Duality双重性 Displacement移位性 Cultural transmission文化传递
⑴arbitrariness
There is no logical connection between meanings and sounds.
P.S the arbitrary nature of language is a sign of sophistication and it makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions
⑵Productivity
Animals are quite limited in the messages they are able to send.
⑶Duality
Language is a system, which consists of two sets of structures ,or two levels.
⑷Displacement
Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker.
⑸Cultural transmission
Human capacity for language has a genetic basis, but we have to be taught and learned the details of any language system. this showed that language is culturally transmitted. not by instinct. animals are born with the capacity to produce the set of calls peculiar to their species.
二、知识点
1.language is not an isolated phenomenon, it’s a social activity carried out in a certain social environment by human beings.
语言不是一种孤立的现象，而是人类在一定的社会环境下进行的一种社会活动。
⑶曾经对语言概念下过定义的语言学家
Sapir---language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communication ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols.
Hall----language is the institution whereby humans communicate and interact with each other by means of habitually used oral-auditory arbitrary symbols.
Chomsky---from now on I will consider language to be a set of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements.
⑷U.S.A Linguist Charles Hockett美国语言学家Charles Hockett
提出了语言的识别特征design features
3.the word ’language’ preceded by the zero-article ,it implies that linguistics studies not any particular language.
Language一词前不加冠词说明语言学家不只研究一种特定的语言。
4.in order to discover the nature of the underlying language system ,what the linguists has to do first if to study language facts.
5.language is a complicated entity with multiple layers and facts, so it's hardly possible for the linguistics to deal with it all at once.
6.Frist drew the attention of the linguists were the sounds used in languages.最先引起语言学家注意的是语言的发音。
三、问答题
1.what are major branches of linguistics? what does each study?
Phonetics----it’s defined as the study of the phonic medium of language, it’s concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world’s languages.
Phonology---the study of sounds systems—the inventory of distinctive sounds that occur in a language and the patterns into which they fall.
Morphology---It’s a branch of a grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.
Syntax-------it's a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of a language.
Semantics---It’s simply defined as the study of meaning in abstraction.
Pragmatics---the study of meaning in context of words.
Sociolinguistics—the study of language with reference to society.
Psycholinguistics---the study of language with reference to the working of the mind.
Applied linguistics---the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning.
2.why do we say language is arbitrary?
Language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between the sounds that people use and the objects to which these sounds refer.
The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a good illustration of the arbitrary nature of language, it’s only our tacit agreement of utterance and concept at work and not any innate relationship bound up in the utterance.
A typical example to illustrate the ‘arbitrariness’ of language is ‘a rose by any other name would smell as sweet’.
3. what makes modern linguistics different from traditional grammar?
Modern linguistics is descriptive, its investigations are based on authentic and mainly spoken language date.现代语言学是描述性的，其研究以确实可靠的、主要以口语形式的资料为基础。
traditional grammar is prescriptive. it is based on’ high’ written language.
传统语法是规定性的，研究‘高级’书面语。
4.Is modern linguistics mainly synchronic or diachronic? why
Modern linguistics is mainly synchronic, focusing on the present-day language. unless the various states of a language are successfully studied, it will not be possible to describe language from a diachronic point of view.
现代语言学主要是共时性的，重点研究现代语言。除非对语言的各种状态都进行成功的研究，否则很难从历时性角度对语言进行描述。
5.which enjoys priority in modern linguistics, speech or writings?
Speech enjoys for the following reasons:
⑴Speech precedes writing in terms of evolution.
⑵A large amount of communication is carried out in speech than in writing.
⑶speech is the form in which infants acquire their native language.
6.how is Saussure’s distinction between langue and parole similar to Chomsky’s ?
Both Saussure and Chomsky make the distinction between the abstract language system and the actual use of language. their purpose is to single out the language system for serious study
Two linguists idea differ in that Saussure took a sociological view of language, Chomsky looks at language from a psychological point of view, competence is a property of the mind of each individual.
Chapter one Introduction
一、定义
1.语言学Linguistics
Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.
2.普通语言学General Linguistics
The study of language as a whole is often called General linguistics.
3.语言language
Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.
语言是人类用来交际的任意性的有声符号体系。
4.识别特征Design Features
It refers to the defining poperties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication.
Arbitrariness任意性 Productivity多产性 Duality双重性 Displacement移位性 Cultural transmission文化传递
⑴arbitrariness
There is no logical connection between meanings and sounds.
P.S the arbitrary nature of language is a sign of sophistication and it makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions
⑵Productivity
Animals are quite limited in the messages they are able to send.
⑶Duality
Language is a system, which consists of two sets of structures ,or two levels.
⑷Displacement
Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker.
⑸Cultural transmission
Human capacity for language has a genetic basis, but we have to be taught and learned the details of any language system. this showed that language is culturally transmitted. not by instinct. animals are born with the capacity to produce the set of calls peculiar to their species.
二、知识点
1.language is not an isolated phenomenon, it’s a social activity carried out in a certain social environment by human beings.
语言不是一种孤立的现象，而是人类在一定的社会环境下进行的一种社会活动。
⑶曾经对语言概念下过定义的语言学家
Sapir---language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communication ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols.
Hall----language is the institution whereby humans communicate and interact with each other by means of habitually used oral-auditory arbitrary symbols.
Chomsky---from now on I will consider language to be a set of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements.
⑷U.S.A Linguist Charles Hockett美国语言学家Charles Hockett
提出了语言的识别特征design features
3.the word ’language’ preceded by the zero-article ,it implies that linguistics studies not any particular language.
Language一词前不加冠词说明语言学家不只研究一种特定的语言。
4.in order to discover the nature of the underlying language system ,what the linguists has to do first if to study language facts.
5.language is a complicated entity with multiple layers and facts, so it's hardly possible for the linguistics to deal with it all at once.
6.Frist drew the attention of the linguists were the sounds used in languages.最先引起语言学家注意的是语言的发音。
三、问答题
1.what are major branches of linguistics? what does each study?
Phonetics----it’s defined as the study of the phonic medium of language, it’s concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world’s languages.
Phonology---the study of sounds systems—the inventory of distinctive sounds that occur in a language and the patterns into which they fall.
Morphology---It’s a branch of a grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.
Syntax-------it's a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of a language.
Semantics---It’s simply defined as the study of meaning in abstraction.
Pragmatics---the study of meaning in context of words.
Sociolinguistics—the study of language with reference to society.
Psycholinguistics---the study of language with reference to the working of the mind.
Applied linguistics---the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning.
2.why do we say language is arbitrary?
Language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between the sounds that people use and the objects to which these sounds refer.
The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a good illustration of the arbitrary nature of language, it’s only our tacit agreement of utterance and concept at work and not any innate relationship bound up in the utterance.
A typical example to illustrate the ‘arbitrariness’ of language is ‘a rose by any other name would smell as sweet’.
3. what makes modern linguistics different from traditional grammar?
Modern linguistics is descriptive, its investigations are based on authentic and mainly spoken language date.现代语言学是描述性的，其研究以确实可靠的、主要以口语形式的资料为基础。
traditional grammar is prescriptive. it is based on’ high’ written language.
传统语法是规定性的，研究‘高级’书面语。
4.Is modern linguistics mainly synchronic or diachronic? why
Modern linguistics is mainly synchronic, focusing on the present-day language. unless the various states of a language are successfully studied, it will not be possible to describe language from a diachronic point of view.
现代语言学主要是共时性的，重点研究现代语言。除非对语言的各种状态都进行成功的研究，否则很难从历时性角度对语言进行描述。
5.which enjoys priority in modern linguistics, speech or writings?
Speech enjoys for the following reasons:
⑴Speech precedes writing in terms of evolution.
⑵A large amount of communication is carried out in speech than in writing.
⑶speech is the form in which infants acquire their native language.
6.how is Saussure’s distinction between langue and parole similar to Chomsky’s ?
Both Saussure and Chomsky make the distinction between the abstract language system and the actual use of language. their purpose is to single out the language system for serious study
Two linguists idea differ in that Saussure took a sociological view of language, Chomsky looks at language from a psychological point of view, competence is a property of the mind of each individual.
1/ What is linguistics?
什么是语言学？
Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. It studies not any particular language, but languages in general.
2/ The scope of linguistics
语言学的研究范畴
The study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics. (普通语言学)
The study of sounds, which are used in linguistic communication, is called phonetics.（语音学）
The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology. （音系学）
The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words are called morphology. （形态学）
The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax（句法学）
The study of meaning in language is called semantics. （语义学）
The study of meaning in context of use is called pragmatics. （语用学）
The study of language with reference to society is called socio-linguistics.（社会语言学）
The study of language with reference to the working of mind is called psycho-linguistics. （心理语言学）
The study of applications (as the recovery of speech ability) is generally known as applied linguistics. （应用语言学） But in a narrow sense, applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning, especially the teaching of foreign and second language.
Other related branches include anthropological linguistics, （人类语言学） neurological linguistics, （神经语言学） mathematical linguistics, （数字语言学）and computational linguistics. （计算机语言学）
Chapter Two Phonology
一、定义
.元音Vowel
The sounds in the production of which no articulators come very close together and the air stream passes through the vocal tract without obstruction are called vowels.
.辅音Consonants
The sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the air stream at some point of the vocal tract are called consonants.
.最小对立对Minimal pair
When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two words are said to form a minimal pair.
超切分特征Suprasegmental
The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segment are called suprasegmental features. the main suprasegmental features include stress ,intonation and tone.
.互补分布complementary distribution
Two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in complementary distribution.
13.语言的语音媒介Phonic medium of language
The limited range of sounds which are meaningful in human communication and are of interest to linguistic studies are the phonic medium of language.
14.爆破音stops
When a obstruction created by the speech organs is total or complete, the speech sound produced with the obstruction released and the air passing out again is called a stop or a plosive.
they are[b] [p] [t] [d] [k] [g]
二、知识点
1.statistics resulting from careful investigations show that there have been over5,000languages in the world, about two thirds of which have not had written form.
2. of the two media of language,speech is more basic than writing.
3.Phonetic 组成
⑴Articulatory phonetics 发音语音学longest established, mostly developed
⑵Auditory phonetics 听觉语音学
⑶Acoustic phonetics 声学语音学
6.Obstruction between the back of the tongue and the velar area results in the pronunciation of[k] and[g],the narrowing of space between the hard palate and the front of the tongue leads to the sound[j];the obstruction created between the tip of the tongue and the alveolar ridge results in the sounds[t]and[d].
三、问答题
1.what are the three branches of phonetics? how do they contribute to the study of speech sound?
Articulatory —describes the way our speech organs work to produce the speech sounds and how they differ.
Auditory-–studies the physical properties of speech sounds, reaches the important conclusion that phonetic identity is only a theoretical ideal.
Acoustic-–studies the physical properties of speech sounds ,the way sound travel from the speaker to the hearer.
2.how are the English consonants classified?
By place of articulation and By manner of articulation
3.how do phonetics and phonology differ in their focus of study? who do you think will be more interested in the different between say[i]and[i],[p] and[ph],a phonetician or a philologist? why?
Phonetics —description of all speech sounds and their find differences.
Phonology —description of sound systems of particular languages and how sounds function to distinguish meaning.
A phonetician would be more interested in such differences cos such differences will not cos differences in meaning.
5.what is a minimal pair and a minimal set? why is it important to identify the minimal set in a language?为什么区分最小对立组在一种语言中非常重要?
Minimal pair—two sound combinations identical in every way except in one sound element that occurs in the same position.
Minimal set—a group of sound combinations with the above feature.
By identifying the minimal pair or the minimal set of a language, a philologist can identify its phonemes.
6.Explain with examples how broad transcription and narrow one transcription differ?
Broad transcription—one letter symbol for one sound.
Narrow transcription—diacritics are added to the one-letter symbols to show the finer differences between sounds.
什么是语言学？
Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. It studies not any particular language, but languages in general.
2/ The scope of linguistics
语言学的研究范畴
The study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics. (普通语言学)
The study of sounds, which are used in linguistic communication, is called phonetics.（语音学）
The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology. （音系学）
The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words are called morphology. （形态学）
The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax（句法学）
The study of meaning in language is called semantics. （语义学）
The study of meaning in context of use is called pragmatics. （语用学）
The study of language with reference to society is called socio-linguistics.（社会语言学）
The study of language with reference to the working of mind is called psycho-linguistics. （心理语言学）
The study of applications (as the recovery of speech ability) is generally known as applied linguistics. （应用语言学） But in a narrow sense, applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning, especially the teaching of foreign and second language.
Other related branches include anthropological linguistics, （人类语言学） neurological linguistics, （神经语言学） mathematical linguistics, （数字语言学）and computational linguistics. （计算机语言学）
Chapter Two Phonology
一、定义
.元音Vowel
The sounds in the production of which no articulators come very close together and the air stream passes through the vocal tract without obstruction are called vowels.
.辅音Consonants
The sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the air stream at some point of the vocal tract are called consonants.
.最小对立对Minimal pair
When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two words are said to form a minimal pair.
超切分特征Suprasegmental
The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segment are called suprasegmental features. the main suprasegmental features include stress ,intonation and tone.
.互补分布complementary distribution
Two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in complementary distribution.
13.语言的语音媒介Phonic medium of language
The limited range of sounds which are meaningful in human communication and are of interest to linguistic studies are the phonic medium of language.
14.爆破音stops
When a obstruction created by the speech organs is total or complete, the speech sound produced with the obstruction released and the air passing out again is called a stop or a plosive.
they are[b] [p] [t] [d] [k] [g]
二、知识点
1.statistics resulting from careful investigations show that there have been over5,000languages in the world, about two thirds of which have not had written form.
2. of the two media of language,speech is more basic than writing.
3.Phonetic 组成
⑴Articulatory phonetics 发音语音学longest established, mostly developed
⑵Auditory phonetics 听觉语音学
⑶Acoustic phonetics 声学语音学
6.Obstruction between the back of the tongue and the velar area results in the pronunciation of[k] and[g],the narrowing of space between the hard palate and the front of the tongue leads to the sound[j];the obstruction created between the tip of the tongue and the alveolar ridge results in the sounds[t]and[d].
三、问答题
1.what are the three branches of phonetics? how do they contribute to the study of speech sound?
Articulatory —describes the way our speech organs work to produce the speech sounds and how they differ.
Auditory-–studies the physical properties of speech sounds, reaches the important conclusion that phonetic identity is only a theoretical ideal.
Acoustic-–studies the physical properties of speech sounds ,the way sound travel from the speaker to the hearer.
2.how are the English consonants classified?
By place of articulation and By manner of articulation
3.how do phonetics and phonology differ in their focus of study? who do you think will be more interested in the different between say[i]and[i],[p] and[ph],a phonetician or a philologist? why?
Phonetics —description of all speech sounds and their find differences.
Phonology —description of sound systems of particular languages and how sounds function to distinguish meaning.
A phonetician would be more interested in such differences cos such differences will not cos differences in meaning.
5.what is a minimal pair and a minimal set? why is it important to identify the minimal set in a language?为什么区分最小对立组在一种语言中非常重要?
Minimal pair—two sound combinations identical in every way except in one sound element that occurs in the same position.
Minimal set—a group of sound combinations with the above feature.
By identifying the minimal pair or the minimal set of a language, a philologist can identify its phonemes.
6.Explain with examples how broad transcription and narrow one transcription differ?
Broad transcription—one letter symbol for one sound.
Narrow transcription—diacritics are added to the one-letter symbols to show the finer differences between sounds.
Chapter Three Morphology
一、定义
1.词素Morpheme
The basic unit in the study of morphology and the smallest meaningful unit of language.
6.曲折词缀inflectional affixes
The manifestation of grammatical relationships through the addition of inflectional affixes, such as number, tense, degree and case.
7.派生词缀Derivational affixes
The manifestation of relation between stems and affixes through the addition of derivational affixes.
Chapter Four Syntax
一、定义
.表层结构S-structure
A level of syntactic representation after the operation of necessary syntactic movement.
.深层结构D-structure
A level of syntactic representation before the operation of necessary syntactic movement.
二、知识点
2.我们把syntax的学习看作 a system of rules that govern the formation of grammatical sentence.
3.A major goal of linguistics is to show with a consistent and explicit grammatical theory how syntactic rules account for this grammatical knowledge.
12.短语类型
Noun Phrase NP
Verb Phrase VP
Preposition Phrase PP
Adjective Phrase AP
一、定义
1.词素Morpheme
The basic unit in the study of morphology and the smallest meaningful unit of language.
6.曲折词缀inflectional affixes
The manifestation of grammatical relationships through the addition of inflectional affixes, such as number, tense, degree and case.
7.派生词缀Derivational affixes
The manifestation of relation between stems and affixes through the addition of derivational affixes.
Chapter Four Syntax
一、定义
.表层结构S-structure
A level of syntactic representation after the operation of necessary syntactic movement.
.深层结构D-structure
A level of syntactic representation before the operation of necessary syntactic movement.
二、知识点
2.我们把syntax的学习看作 a system of rules that govern the formation of grammatical sentence.
3.A major goal of linguistics is to show with a consistent and explicit grammatical theory how syntactic rules account for this grammatical knowledge.
12.短语类型
Noun Phrase NP
Verb Phrase VP
Preposition Phrase PP
Adjective Phrase AP
Chapter 5 Semantics
一、定义
1.命名论The naming theory
The naming theory, one of the oldest notions concerning meaning, and also a very primitive one was proposed by the ancient Greek scholar Plato. According to this theory, the linguistic forms or symbols, in other words,the words used in a language are taken to be labels of the objects they stand for, so words are just names or labels for things.
2.意念论The conceptualist view
It holds that there is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to; rather ,in the interpretation of meaning they are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind.
3.语境论Conceptualism
It’s based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from or reduce meaning to observable contexts. her are two kinds of context: the situational and the linguistic context.
4.行为主义论Behaviorism
It refers to the attempted to define the meaning of a language form as the” situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer”. this theory somewhat close to conceptualism emphasizes on the psychological response.
5.意义Sense
It’s concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. It’s the collection of all the features of the linguistic form, it’s abstract and de-contextualized.
6.所指意义Reference
It means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world, it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.
7.同义词Synonymy
It refers to the sameness or close similarity of meaning or we can say that words are close in meaning are called synonyms.
8.多义词Polysemy
It refers to different words may have the same or similar meaning, the same one word may have more than one meaning.
9.同音(形)异义Homonymy
It refers to the phenomenon that words have different meanings have the same form, i.e, different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.
10.同音异义Homophones
It refers to two words are identical in sound. e.g. rain/reign.
11.同形异义Homographs
It refers to two words are identical in form .e.g. tear v./tear n.
12.上下义关系Hyponymy
It refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word. the word which is more general in meaning is called superordinate, and the more specific words are called its hyponyms.
13.反义词Antonymy
It’s the term used for oppositeness of meaning on different dimension.
二、知识点
1.Major views of meaning study:
The naming Theory-----希腊Scholar Plato
The conceptualism-----观点代表人是John Firth,但Bloomfield阐述更有说服力
The Conceptualist view----Ogden和Richards用classic semantic triangle of
significance
The Behaviorism-----英国Bloomfield提出，使用了Jack和 Jill故事阐明
The naming theory的局限性:
⑴It’s only applicable to Nouns only.
⑵Within the category of nouns, there are nouns which denote things that don’t exist in the real world. sense
2.Lexical meaning reference
3.主要的意义关系 major sense relations
Synonymy ;Antonymy; Hyponymy; Polysemy; homonymy
Synonymy:(1)Dialectal synonyms—synonyms used in different regional dialects
Synonyms
(2)Stylistic synonyms---Synonyms differing in style 分类
(3)Synonyms that different in their emotive or evaluative meaning
(4)Semantically different synonyms (5)collocational synonyms
5.Words having the same meaning may differ in style, or degree of formality.
6. some synonyms differ in their collocation.
例子: Accuse….of charge…. with rebuke….for sour milk
Rotten tomatoes addled eggs rancid bacon or butter
7. a polysemic word, i.e, a word with several meaning, is the result of the evolution of the primary meaning of the word. complete homonyms are often brought into being by coincidence.
8.According naming theory words are just names or labels for things.
9.Every utterance occurs in a particular spatiotemporal situation, the main components of which include, apart from the place and time of the utterance ,the speaker and the hearer, the action they are performing at the time, the various objects and event existed in the situation.
10.the contextulist view was further strengthened by Bloomfield, who drew on behaviourist psychology when trying to define the meaning of linguistic forms.
11 Homophones—when two words are identical in sound
Rain/reign; night/knight; piece/peace; leak/leek
Homonymy Homographs—when two words are identical in spelling
Bow v. /bow n. tear v./ tear n lead v./lead n.
Complete homonyms—when two words are identical in both spelling and sound.例子Fast adj./ fast v. scale n./scale v.
三、问答题
1.how are sense and reference related?
Sense refers to the inherent meaning of a linguistic form, which is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form, it’s abstract and de-contextualized.
Reference is what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world, it is a matter of relationship between the form and reality.
2.in what way is componential analysis similar to the analysis of phonemes into distinctive features?成分分析和把音位分析为区别性特征有何相似之处？
In the light of componential analysis, the meaning of a word consists of a number of distinctive meaning features, the analysis breaks down the meaning of the word into these features; it is these different features that distinguish word meaning similarly, a phoneme is considered as a collection of distinctive sound features, a phoneme can be broken down into these distinctive sound features and its these sound features that distinguish different sounds.
3.what’s grammaticality? what might take a grammatically meaningful sentence semantically meaningless?
什么是语法性？一个语法上有意义的句子可能由于什么而不是有意义的?
Grammaticality---the grammatical well-formedness of a sentence.
A sentence may be well-formed grammatically, i.e. it conforms to the grammatical rules of the language, but it is not necessarily semantically well-formed, i.e. it may not make sense at all
一、定义
1.命名论The naming theory
The naming theory, one of the oldest notions concerning meaning, and also a very primitive one was proposed by the ancient Greek scholar Plato. According to this theory, the linguistic forms or symbols, in other words,the words used in a language are taken to be labels of the objects they stand for, so words are just names or labels for things.
2.意念论The conceptualist view
It holds that there is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to; rather ,in the interpretation of meaning they are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind.
3.语境论Conceptualism
It’s based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from or reduce meaning to observable contexts. her are two kinds of context: the situational and the linguistic context.
4.行为主义论Behaviorism
It refers to the attempted to define the meaning of a language form as the” situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer”. this theory somewhat close to conceptualism emphasizes on the psychological response.
5.意义Sense
It’s concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. It’s the collection of all the features of the linguistic form, it’s abstract and de-contextualized.
6.所指意义Reference
It means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world, it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.
7.同义词Synonymy
It refers to the sameness or close similarity of meaning or we can say that words are close in meaning are called synonyms.
8.多义词Polysemy
It refers to different words may have the same or similar meaning, the same one word may have more than one meaning.
9.同音(形)异义Homonymy
It refers to the phenomenon that words have different meanings have the same form, i.e, different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.
10.同音异义Homophones
It refers to two words are identical in sound. e.g. rain/reign.
11.同形异义Homographs
It refers to two words are identical in form .e.g. tear v./tear n.
12.上下义关系Hyponymy
It refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word. the word which is more general in meaning is called superordinate, and the more specific words are called its hyponyms.
13.反义词Antonymy
It’s the term used for oppositeness of meaning on different dimension.
二、知识点
1.Major views of meaning study:
The naming Theory-----希腊Scholar Plato
The conceptualism-----观点代表人是John Firth,但Bloomfield阐述更有说服力
The Conceptualist view----Ogden和Richards用classic semantic triangle of
significance
The Behaviorism-----英国Bloomfield提出，使用了Jack和 Jill故事阐明
The naming theory的局限性:
⑴It’s only applicable to Nouns only.
⑵Within the category of nouns, there are nouns which denote things that don’t exist in the real world. sense
2.Lexical meaning reference
3.主要的意义关系 major sense relations
Synonymy ;Antonymy; Hyponymy; Polysemy; homonymy
Synonymy:(1)Dialectal synonyms—synonyms used in different regional dialects
Synonyms
(2)Stylistic synonyms---Synonyms differing in style 分类
(3)Synonyms that different in their emotive or evaluative meaning
(4)Semantically different synonyms (5)collocational synonyms
5.Words having the same meaning may differ in style, or degree of formality.
6. some synonyms differ in their collocation.
例子: Accuse….of charge…. with rebuke….for sour milk
Rotten tomatoes addled eggs rancid bacon or butter
7. a polysemic word, i.e, a word with several meaning, is the result of the evolution of the primary meaning of the word. complete homonyms are often brought into being by coincidence.
8.According naming theory words are just names or labels for things.
9.Every utterance occurs in a particular spatiotemporal situation, the main components of which include, apart from the place and time of the utterance ,the speaker and the hearer, the action they are performing at the time, the various objects and event existed in the situation.
10.the contextulist view was further strengthened by Bloomfield, who drew on behaviourist psychology when trying to define the meaning of linguistic forms.
11 Homophones—when two words are identical in sound
Rain/reign; night/knight; piece/peace; leak/leek
Homonymy Homographs—when two words are identical in spelling
Bow v. /bow n. tear v./ tear n lead v./lead n.
Complete homonyms—when two words are identical in both spelling and sound.例子Fast adj./ fast v. scale n./scale v.
三、问答题
1.how are sense and reference related?
Sense refers to the inherent meaning of a linguistic form, which is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form, it’s abstract and de-contextualized.
Reference is what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world, it is a matter of relationship between the form and reality.
2.in what way is componential analysis similar to the analysis of phonemes into distinctive features?成分分析和把音位分析为区别性特征有何相似之处？
In the light of componential analysis, the meaning of a word consists of a number of distinctive meaning features, the analysis breaks down the meaning of the word into these features; it is these different features that distinguish word meaning similarly, a phoneme is considered as a collection of distinctive sound features, a phoneme can be broken down into these distinctive sound features and its these sound features that distinguish different sounds.
3.what’s grammaticality? what might take a grammatically meaningful sentence semantically meaningless?
什么是语法性？一个语法上有意义的句子可能由于什么而不是有意义的?
Grammaticality---the grammatical well-formedness of a sentence.
A sentence may be well-formed grammatically, i.e. it conforms to the grammatical rules of the language, but it is not necessarily semantically well-formed, i.e. it may not make sense at all
Chapter 6 pragmatics
一 、定义
1.语境Context
The notion of context is essential to the pragmatic study of language, it’s generally considered as constituted by the knowledge shared by the speaker and the hearer.
2.言语行为理论Speech act theory
It’s an important theory in the pragmatic study of language. it’s a philosophical explanation of the nature of linguistic communication. it aims to answer the question ”what do we do when using language?”
The concept of causatives performatives, the locutionary act, the illocutionary act, the perlocutionary act and the5categories of illocutionary act suggested and formulated by J.R.Searle constitute the speech act theory.
10.合作原则Cooperative Principle
It’s proposed and formulated by P.Grice, a pragmatic hypothesis, is about that the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate, otherwise, it would not be possible for them to carry on the talk.
11.会话含义Conversational implicatures
According to P.Grice, it refers to the extra meaning not contained in th utterance, understandable to the listener only when he shares the speaker’s knowledge or knows why and how he violates intentionally one of the four maxims of the CP.
话语的言外之义是说话人通过故意违反某一准则而获得这种听者能懂的暗含之意。
二、知识点
1.语用学的几个重要的理论
⑴言语行为理论Speech act theory
由英国哲学家John Austin在20世纪50年代末提出
在此理论基础上John区分了定义了叙述句Constatives和行为句performatives
在区分叙述句和行为句之后，他又定义了言内行为、言外行为和言后行为
例子：you have left the door wide open.
Locutionary act:: expressed what each word of this sentence literally mean.
Illutionary act: expressed his intention of speaking, asking someone to close the door.
Perlocutionary act: someone heard the sentence, and close the door, then this act is successfully performed.
※在这三种行为中，语言学家对言外行为最感兴趣
cos this kind of speech act is identical with the speaker’s intention, and in their study of language communication, linguists are most interested in how a speaker expresses his intention and also how his intention is recognized by the hearer.
⑵会话原则CP 逻辑哲学家Paul Grice提出;
2. 合作原则的准则4Maxim of Cooperative Principle
数量 the maxim of Quantity----- Make your contribution as informative as required; Do not make your contribution more informative than is required
质量the maxim of Quality ----Do not say what you believe to false. Do not say for which you lack adequate evidence
关系 the maxim of relation----- be relevant
方式 the maxim of manner---- Avoid obscurity of expression and ambiguity; Be brief/be orderly.
4.Semantics 和Pragmatics的区分
Pragmatics studies how meaning is conveyed in the process of communication.
The basic difference between them is that pragmatics considers meaning in context, traditional semantics studies meaning in isolation from the context of use.
5.语境中听者与说话者shared knowledge is of two types:
The knowledge of the language they use, the knowledge about the world, including the general knowledge about the world and the specific knowledge about the situation in which linguistic communication is taking place.
一 、定义
1.语境Context
The notion of context is essential to the pragmatic study of language, it’s generally considered as constituted by the knowledge shared by the speaker and the hearer.
2.言语行为理论Speech act theory
It’s an important theory in the pragmatic study of language. it’s a philosophical explanation of the nature of linguistic communication. it aims to answer the question ”what do we do when using language?”
The concept of causatives performatives, the locutionary act, the illocutionary act, the perlocutionary act and the5categories of illocutionary act suggested and formulated by J.R.Searle constitute the speech act theory.
10.合作原则Cooperative Principle
It’s proposed and formulated by P.Grice, a pragmatic hypothesis, is about that the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate, otherwise, it would not be possible for them to carry on the talk.
11.会话含义Conversational implicatures
According to P.Grice, it refers to the extra meaning not contained in th utterance, understandable to the listener only when he shares the speaker’s knowledge or knows why and how he violates intentionally one of the four maxims of the CP.
话语的言外之义是说话人通过故意违反某一准则而获得这种听者能懂的暗含之意。
二、知识点
1.语用学的几个重要的理论
⑴言语行为理论Speech act theory
由英国哲学家John Austin在20世纪50年代末提出
在此理论基础上John区分了定义了叙述句Constatives和行为句performatives
在区分叙述句和行为句之后，他又定义了言内行为、言外行为和言后行为
例子：you have left the door wide open.
Locutionary act:: expressed what each word of this sentence literally mean.
Illutionary act: expressed his intention of speaking, asking someone to close the door.
Perlocutionary act: someone heard the sentence, and close the door, then this act is successfully performed.
※在这三种行为中，语言学家对言外行为最感兴趣
cos this kind of speech act is identical with the speaker’s intention, and in their study of language communication, linguists are most interested in how a speaker expresses his intention and also how his intention is recognized by the hearer.
⑵会话原则CP 逻辑哲学家Paul Grice提出;
2. 合作原则的准则4Maxim of Cooperative Principle
数量 the maxim of Quantity----- Make your contribution as informative as required; Do not make your contribution more informative than is required
质量the maxim of Quality ----Do not say what you believe to false. Do not say for which you lack adequate evidence
关系 the maxim of relation----- be relevant
方式 the maxim of manner---- Avoid obscurity of expression and ambiguity; Be brief/be orderly.
4.Semantics 和Pragmatics的区分
Pragmatics studies how meaning is conveyed in the process of communication.
The basic difference between them is that pragmatics considers meaning in context, traditional semantics studies meaning in isolation from the context of use.
5.语境中听者与说话者shared knowledge is of two types:
The knowledge of the language they use, the knowledge about the world, including the general knowledge about the world and the specific knowledge about the situation in which linguistic communication is taking place.
Chapter 7 Historical linguistics
一、定义
1. lexical and semantic change
Generally there are mainly two possible ways of lexical change: the addition and loss of words,which often reflects the introduction of new objects and notions in social practices.
Addition of new words
Coinage:a new word can be coined outright to fit some purpose,mostly for new things and objects
Clipped words:clipping refers to the abbreviation of longer words or phrases
Blending :A process of forming a new word by combining parts of two other words.
Acronym:A word created by combining the initials of a number of words.
Back-formation:A process by which new words are formed by taking away he suffix of an existing word.
Functional shift:words may shift from one part of speech to another without the addition of affixes,which is also called conversion.
Borrowing :when different cultures come into contact ,words are often borrowed from one language to another .
Loss of words :one of the most common cause for the loss of lexical items is the discontinuation of the object they name.
Semantic changes:widening ,narrowing,shift in meaning
Semantic broadening :The process in which the meaning of a word becomes more general or inclusive than its historical earlier denotation.缩小less general or inclusive
Semantic narrowing:on the other hand,semantic change has narrowed the meaning of some words which are still used in modern English.
Semantic shift :It’s a process of semantic change in which a word loses its former meaning and acquires a new, sometimes related meaning.
二、知识点
2.Language change is universal, continuous and, to a considerable degree, regular and systematic.
5.one of the most obvious change in English is the systematic and regular change in the Vowel Change.
8.the most wide-spread morphological change in the historical development of English are the loss and addition of affixes.
10.in general, linguistic change in the sound system and the vocabulary of a language is more noticeable than that in other systems of the grammar.
11.the ancient adjective agreement rule was dropped out of English mainly because the inflectional endings to show agreement in case, number and gender became distinct.
13.Language change is essentially a matter of change in the Grammar.
15.The most widely-spread morphological changes in the historical development of English are the loss and addition of affixes.
※语义的变化Semantic Change 这一节非常重要
32.It’s comparative in the sense that it aims at developing and elucidating the genetic relationships that exist between and among langauges, classifying related languages into language families,and reconstructin their ancestral languages.what follows is a very brief account focusing on how historical linguists established genetic relationships of languages,and in particular,the Indo-Europeean language family.
34.To identify and classify families of related languages in a genealogical family tree,and to reconstruct the protolanguage,the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist.
35. A language family is established by the use of a method known as Comparative reconstruction.
36.Reliable linguistic signs of family relationships include systematic phonological, morphological, and semantic resemblances among the vocabulary items of different languages.
41.With the application of the comparative method,Persia,northern part of india were able to reconstruct the grammar of a single origin known as proto-Indo-European,from which a number of subfamilies of European and Indian subcontinental languages evloved.
三、问答题
1.characterized the nature of language change
All living languages change with time.language change is not only universal and inevitable,but also systematic,extensive,on-going,and gradual.Language change is a rule-governed behavior,involving all components of the grammar.
2. list the major causes of language change
Sound assimilation,Rule simplification and internal borrowing
⑴语音同化Sound assimilation
Assimilative processes are phonological changes due to physiological mechanisms.it also involves vowel nasalization and morphological and lexical changes.
⑵规则简化Rule simplification
It’s a type of spontaneous morphological rule change involves exceptional plural forms of nouns.the same kind of analogic change is exemplified by the regularization of some borrowed words whose plural formation rule is different from the regular english.
⑶内部借用Internal Borrowing
It’s motivated by the need to lessen the burden on memory is called internal borrowing.it represents a continual readjustment of a language’s grammatical system as it develops from one state of equilibrium to another.
⑷规则细化 Elaboration
It occurs when there is a need to reduce ambiguity and increase communicative clarity or expressiveness.
⑸社会因素Social triggers
⑹文化转移Cultural transmission
⑺儿童语法接近成人语法Children’s approximation toward the adult grammar.
A generally accepted view among language acquisition scholars is that children acquire their native language not through formal instrucation of grammatical rules, they often construct their personal information they hear.
一、定义
1. lexical and semantic change
Generally there are mainly two possible ways of lexical change: the addition and loss of words,which often reflects the introduction of new objects and notions in social practices.
Addition of new words
Coinage:a new word can be coined outright to fit some purpose,mostly for new things and objects
Clipped words:clipping refers to the abbreviation of longer words or phrases
Blending :A process of forming a new word by combining parts of two other words.
Acronym:A word created by combining the initials of a number of words.
Back-formation:A process by which new words are formed by taking away he suffix of an existing word.
Functional shift:words may shift from one part of speech to another without the addition of affixes,which is also called conversion.
Borrowing :when different cultures come into contact ,words are often borrowed from one language to another .
Loss of words :one of the most common cause for the loss of lexical items is the discontinuation of the object they name.
Semantic changes:widening ,narrowing,shift in meaning
Semantic broadening :The process in which the meaning of a word becomes more general or inclusive than its historical earlier denotation.缩小less general or inclusive
Semantic narrowing:on the other hand,semantic change has narrowed the meaning of some words which are still used in modern English.
Semantic shift :It’s a process of semantic change in which a word loses its former meaning and acquires a new, sometimes related meaning.
二、知识点
2.Language change is universal, continuous and, to a considerable degree, regular and systematic.
5.one of the most obvious change in English is the systematic and regular change in the Vowel Change.
8.the most wide-spread morphological change in the historical development of English are the loss and addition of affixes.
10.in general, linguistic change in the sound system and the vocabulary of a language is more noticeable than that in other systems of the grammar.
11.the ancient adjective agreement rule was dropped out of English mainly because the inflectional endings to show agreement in case, number and gender became distinct.
13.Language change is essentially a matter of change in the Grammar.
15.The most widely-spread morphological changes in the historical development of English are the loss and addition of affixes.
※语义的变化Semantic Change 这一节非常重要
32.It’s comparative in the sense that it aims at developing and elucidating the genetic relationships that exist between and among langauges, classifying related languages into language families,and reconstructin their ancestral languages.what follows is a very brief account focusing on how historical linguists established genetic relationships of languages,and in particular,the Indo-Europeean language family.
34.To identify and classify families of related languages in a genealogical family tree,and to reconstruct the protolanguage,the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist.
35. A language family is established by the use of a method known as Comparative reconstruction.
36.Reliable linguistic signs of family relationships include systematic phonological, morphological, and semantic resemblances among the vocabulary items of different languages.
41.With the application of the comparative method,Persia,northern part of india were able to reconstruct the grammar of a single origin known as proto-Indo-European,from which a number of subfamilies of European and Indian subcontinental languages evloved.
三、问答题
1.characterized the nature of language change
All living languages change with time.language change is not only universal and inevitable,but also systematic,extensive,on-going,and gradual.Language change is a rule-governed behavior,involving all components of the grammar.
2. list the major causes of language change
Sound assimilation,Rule simplification and internal borrowing
⑴语音同化Sound assimilation
Assimilative processes are phonological changes due to physiological mechanisms.it also involves vowel nasalization and morphological and lexical changes.
⑵规则简化Rule simplification
It’s a type of spontaneous morphological rule change involves exceptional plural forms of nouns.the same kind of analogic change is exemplified by the regularization of some borrowed words whose plural formation rule is different from the regular english.
⑶内部借用Internal Borrowing
It’s motivated by the need to lessen the burden on memory is called internal borrowing.it represents a continual readjustment of a language’s grammatical system as it develops from one state of equilibrium to another.
⑷规则细化 Elaboration
It occurs when there is a need to reduce ambiguity and increase communicative clarity or expressiveness.
⑸社会因素Social triggers
⑹文化转移Cultural transmission
⑺儿童语法接近成人语法Children’s approximation toward the adult grammar.
A generally accepted view among language acquisition scholars is that children acquire their native language not through formal instrucation of grammatical rules, they often construct their personal information they hear.
Chapter 8Sociolinguistics
一、定义
1.The relatedness between language and society
There are many indications of the inter-relationship between language and society. One of them is that while language is principally used to communicate meaning. It is also used to establish and maintain social relationships. Another indication is that users of the same language in a sense all speak differently.
2.Dialectal carieties
Regional dialect:is a linguistic variety used by people living in the same geographical region.
Sociolect :A variety of language used by people belonging to a prticular social class.
Language and gender
Language and age
Idiolect=Personal dialect:A personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines aspects of all the elements regarding regional,social,and stylistic variation,in one form or another.
Ethnic Dialect :It refers to a phenomenon that within a society speech variation may come about cos of different ethnic backgrounds.
3.Register :the type of language which is selected as appropriate to the type of situation is a register.
Halliday further distinguishes three social variables that determine the register:field of discourse,tenor of discourse and mode of discourse
7.双言现象Diglossia
A sociolinguistic situation in which two very different varieties of language co-exist in a speech community,each serving a particular social function and used for a particular situation.
12.双语Bilingualism
It refers to a linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used either by an individual or by a group of speakers.
21.语域变体Register Varieties=Situational Dialects
Registers are language varieties appropriate for use in particular speech situations,in contrast to language varieties that are associated with the social or regional grouping of their customary users.
24. 社会语言学Sociolinguistics
It’s the subdiscipline of linguistics that studies language with in socical context.
二、知识点
1.Sociolinguists are concerned with the social singificance of language variation and language use in different speech communities including regional,ethnic and social groups.
2.In sociolinguistic studies,speakers are treated as memebers of social groups.
3.Social groups may be defined in a number of ways besides regionally.it may distinguish itself from rest of the community by its distinct ethnic affiliation.
20.Diglossia现象存在
⑴mostly in Arabic-speaking counties,
⑵Modern Greek,Swiss German and Haitian Creole.
⑶in Paraguay,spanish as the high variety and local Indian language Guarani as the low variety.
21.Bilingualism现象存在
⑴Canada: English and French
⑵Finland: Finnish and Swedish
⑶Belgium: French and Flemish Dutch
22.Most bilingual communities have one thing in common,that’s a fairly clear functional differentiation of the two languages in respect of speech situation known as domains.
23.An ethnic dialect is spoken mainly by a less priviledged population that has experienced form of social isolation,such as racial discrimination or segregation.
24.The most widespread and most familiar ethnic variety of the english langauge is Black English.
三、问答题
1. how to distinguish a particular register from other registers?
⑴distinctive words
⑵using words or phrases in a particular way.
⑶speical grammatical constructions,such as scientific language,or legal language.
2. distinction between Bilingualism and Diglossia.
Bilingualism refers to a linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used in a speech community;in a diglossic community,two varieties of language are used for different situations,one being more standard and higher,and used for more formal matters,the other less prestigious,used for colloquial situations.
3. 黑人英语的特点
⑴ one of the most prominent phonological features of black english is the simplification of a consonant cluster at the end of a word dropping the word-final phoneme.e.g.”desk”pronounced as/des/,“told” pronounced as /tou/;
⑵one of the syntactic feature of black english is the absence of the copula,such as “they mine”,“you crazy”. Copula deletion as such occurs in some other english dialects,as well as in language like Arabic,Russian and chinese;
⑶the double negation construction with sentence like”I donot know nobody”.
黑人英语的disinctive feature persis not for racial,but for social,educationa and economic reasons.
4.列举女性言语和男性言语相异的方面
List several ways of speech of women and men differ from each other.
⑴Women tend to use more presigious forms,more polite and indirect language,and more specific color terms than their male counterparts.
⑵Women use more questions than declarative statements than males.
6.Why is syntax regarded as a system of rules?
As a major component of grammar,syntax consists of a set of abstract rules that allow words to be combined with other words to form grammatical setences.A sentence is considered grammatical when it conforms to the grammatical knowledge in the mind of native speakers.if,on the other hand,a sentence violates a rule according to which words are organized,then native speakers will judge it to be an impossible sentence of that langauge.
Universally found in the grammars of all human languages,syntactic rules comprise the system of internalized linguistic knowledge of a langauge speaker.
For any natural language,it's the set of rules that makes it possible for the speakers to produce,comprehend and memorize the vase number of sentences of their native language
一、定义
1.The relatedness between language and society
There are many indications of the inter-relationship between language and society. One of them is that while language is principally used to communicate meaning. It is also used to establish and maintain social relationships. Another indication is that users of the same language in a sense all speak differently.
2.Dialectal carieties
Regional dialect:is a linguistic variety used by people living in the same geographical region.
Sociolect :A variety of language used by people belonging to a prticular social class.
Language and gender
Language and age
Idiolect=Personal dialect:A personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines aspects of all the elements regarding regional,social,and stylistic variation,in one form or another.
Ethnic Dialect :It refers to a phenomenon that within a society speech variation may come about cos of different ethnic backgrounds.
3.Register :the type of language which is selected as appropriate to the type of situation is a register.
Halliday further distinguishes three social variables that determine the register:field of discourse,tenor of discourse and mode of discourse
7.双言现象Diglossia
A sociolinguistic situation in which two very different varieties of language co-exist in a speech community,each serving a particular social function and used for a particular situation.
12.双语Bilingualism
It refers to a linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used either by an individual or by a group of speakers.
21.语域变体Register Varieties=Situational Dialects
Registers are language varieties appropriate for use in particular speech situations,in contrast to language varieties that are associated with the social or regional grouping of their customary users.
24. 社会语言学Sociolinguistics
It’s the subdiscipline of linguistics that studies language with in socical context.
二、知识点
1.Sociolinguists are concerned with the social singificance of language variation and language use in different speech communities including regional,ethnic and social groups.
2.In sociolinguistic studies,speakers are treated as memebers of social groups.
3.Social groups may be defined in a number of ways besides regionally.it may distinguish itself from rest of the community by its distinct ethnic affiliation.
20.Diglossia现象存在
⑴mostly in Arabic-speaking counties,
⑵Modern Greek,Swiss German and Haitian Creole.
⑶in Paraguay,spanish as the high variety and local Indian language Guarani as the low variety.
21.Bilingualism现象存在
⑴Canada: English and French
⑵Finland: Finnish and Swedish
⑶Belgium: French and Flemish Dutch
22.Most bilingual communities have one thing in common,that’s a fairly clear functional differentiation of the two languages in respect of speech situation known as domains.
23.An ethnic dialect is spoken mainly by a less priviledged population that has experienced form of social isolation,such as racial discrimination or segregation.
24.The most widespread and most familiar ethnic variety of the english langauge is Black English.
三、问答题
1. how to distinguish a particular register from other registers?
⑴distinctive words
⑵using words or phrases in a particular way.
⑶speical grammatical constructions,such as scientific language,or legal language.
2. distinction between Bilingualism and Diglossia.
Bilingualism refers to a linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used in a speech community;in a diglossic community,two varieties of language are used for different situations,one being more standard and higher,and used for more formal matters,the other less prestigious,used for colloquial situations.
3. 黑人英语的特点
⑴ one of the most prominent phonological features of black english is the simplification of a consonant cluster at the end of a word dropping the word-final phoneme.e.g.”desk”pronounced as/des/,“told” pronounced as /tou/;
⑵one of the syntactic feature of black english is the absence of the copula,such as “they mine”,“you crazy”. Copula deletion as such occurs in some other english dialects,as well as in language like Arabic,Russian and chinese;
⑶the double negation construction with sentence like”I donot know nobody”.
黑人英语的disinctive feature persis not for racial,but for social,educationa and economic reasons.
4.列举女性言语和男性言语相异的方面
List several ways of speech of women and men differ from each other.
⑴Women tend to use more presigious forms,more polite and indirect language,and more specific color terms than their male counterparts.
⑵Women use more questions than declarative statements than males.
6.Why is syntax regarded as a system of rules?
As a major component of grammar,syntax consists of a set of abstract rules that allow words to be combined with other words to form grammatical setences.A sentence is considered grammatical when it conforms to the grammatical knowledge in the mind of native speakers.if,on the other hand,a sentence violates a rule according to which words are organized,then native speakers will judge it to be an impossible sentence of that langauge.
Universally found in the grammars of all human languages,syntactic rules comprise the system of internalized linguistic knowledge of a langauge speaker.
For any natural language,it's the set of rules that makes it possible for the speakers to produce,comprehend and memorize the vase number of sentences of their native language
Chapter 12 language and the brain
一、定义
1. Cerebral Cortex
The outside surface of the brain which receives messages from all the sensory organs and where human cognitive abilities reside.
接受所有感觉器官传来的信息，是人的认知能力所存在的区域。
2.大脑侧化Brain Lateralization
The localization of cognitive and perceptual functions in a particular hemisphere of the brain.
认知机能和感知机能位于大脑的某一半球。
3.语言侧化Linguistic lateralization
Hemispheric specialization or dominance for language.
4.两耳分听Dichotic Listening
A research technique which has been used to study how the brain controls hearing and language, with which subjects wear earphones and simultaneously receive different sounds in the right and left ear, and are then asked to repeat what they hear.
5.关键期the critical period
An early period of one’s life extending to the age of puberty, during which the human brain is most ready to acquire language naturally and effortlessly, a period that coincides with the period of brain laterlization for language functions.
6. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis假设
A theory put forward by the American anthropological linguists Sapir and Whorf which states that the way people view the world is determined wholly or partly by the structure of their native language.
人们看世界的方式完全或部分地由他们母语的结构决定，
7.自我交际Interpersonal communication
The process of using language within the individual to facilitate one’s own thought and aid the formulation and manipulation of concepts.
语言使用者本人用语言促进自己的思维和帮助形成和使用概念的过程。
8.无声言语Subvocal Speech
A term used to refer to thought when thought and language are identical or closely parallel to each other.
用于指语言和思维是同一或近乎相同的.
9.神经元Neurons
Lying under the skull, the human brain contains an average of ten billion nerve cells called Neurons.
10.脑半球Hemispheres
The brain is divided into two roughly symmetrical halves, called hemisphere.
11.Broca’s area French Surgeon: Paul Broca
The language centre in the frontal lobe in the left cerebral hemisphere is know as Broca’s area.
12.语言决定论Linguistic determinism
Whorf proposed that all higher levels of thinking are dependent on language, or put it more bluntly, language determines thought, hence the strong notion of linguistic determinism.
13.语言相对论Linguistic relativism
It refers to the belief that speakers of different languages perceive and experience the world differently, that is, relative to their linguistic background.
It’s hypothesis proposed by an American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf concerning language and thought.
二、知识点
1.Three areas of the left hemisphere are vital to language:
Broca’s area. =Expression
Wernicke’s area=Understanding
Angular gyrus. =converting a visual stimulus into an auditory form, vice versa
2.The human brain is the most complicated organ of the body.
3.The most important part of the brain is the outside surface of the brain---Cerebral cortex.
4.The Cortex is the decision-making organ of the body, receiving messages from all the sensory organs and initiating all voluntary actions
6.The process of lateralization is believed to be maturational.
7.Most individuals, the left hemisphere is dominant for language, regardless of handiness.
8.Evidence in support of lateralization for language in left hemisphere comes from researches in Dichotic listening tasks.两耳分听证明了左半球的侧化。
9.Righ hear advantage shows the left hemisphere is not superior for processing all sounds, but only for those that are linguistic in nature, thus providing evidence in support of view that the left side of the brain is specialized for language and that's where language centers reside.
右耳优势证明了大脑左半球并不是处理所有声音时都有优势，只是处理本质上是语言的声音时有优势：大脑左侧负责语言，语言中枢就位于这一部分。
12.Angular gyrus lies behind Wernicke’s area.this area is crucial for the matching of a spoken form with a perceived object, for the naming of objects, for the comprehension of written language and require connections between visual and speech organs.
13.When we listen,the word is heard and comprehended via Wernicke’s area.
14.The critical period hypothesis refers to a period in one’s life extending from about two to puberty.
17. 早期学者针对语言和思想的观点
⑴Plato suggested that thought was the soul’s discourse with itself.
柏拉图认为语言和思想相互统一的。
⑵Aristotle, who argued that mankind could not have the same languages and that languages were but signs of psychological experiences.
亚里士多德认为语言只是人类体现的符号。
The debate between them, one being mentalist, other empiricist.
两个人的观点向背。一个是心灵主义，另一个是经验主义。
⑶Watson, thinking involved the same motor activities used in speaking, Bloomfield, thinking was a system of movements that had been reduced from actual speech to the point where they were no longer visible.
美国的Watson承袭了Plato的观点，Bloomfield提出了近似的观点。
21.Major functions of language
⑴ a means of interpersonal communication.人际交流
⑵ a means of intrapersonal communication.自我交流
三、问答题
1.in what cortical regions are speech and language thought to be localized?
In what have come to be known as Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and angular gyrus, all located in the left hemisphere of the brain.
2.how In your opinion does language relate thought and culture?
Language doesn’t determine the way the speaker perceives the world, but largely functions as a means by which information can be stored and received, by which a culture transmits its belief, values and norms, and by which the speaker interacts other members of the cultures.
3.Describe the processes of language perception, comprehension and production.
It’s been proposed that the brain activity involved in hearing, understanding and then saying a word would follow a definite pattern,
when we listen, the word is heard and comprehended via Wernicke’s area, this signal is then transferred to Broca’s area where preparations are made to produce it. A signal is then sent to the motor area controlling the vocal tract to physically articulate the word.
When we speak, words are drawn from Wernicke’s area and sent to Broca’s area which determines the details of their form and pronunciation. The appropriate instructions are then sent to the motor area.
一、定义
1. Cerebral Cortex
The outside surface of the brain which receives messages from all the sensory organs and where human cognitive abilities reside.
接受所有感觉器官传来的信息，是人的认知能力所存在的区域。
2.大脑侧化Brain Lateralization
The localization of cognitive and perceptual functions in a particular hemisphere of the brain.
认知机能和感知机能位于大脑的某一半球。
3.语言侧化Linguistic lateralization
Hemispheric specialization or dominance for language.
4.两耳分听Dichotic Listening
A research technique which has been used to study how the brain controls hearing and language, with which subjects wear earphones and simultaneously receive different sounds in the right and left ear, and are then asked to repeat what they hear.
5.关键期the critical period
An early period of one’s life extending to the age of puberty, during which the human brain is most ready to acquire language naturally and effortlessly, a period that coincides with the period of brain laterlization for language functions.
6. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis假设
A theory put forward by the American anthropological linguists Sapir and Whorf which states that the way people view the world is determined wholly or partly by the structure of their native language.
人们看世界的方式完全或部分地由他们母语的结构决定，
7.自我交际Interpersonal communication
The process of using language within the individual to facilitate one’s own thought and aid the formulation and manipulation of concepts.
语言使用者本人用语言促进自己的思维和帮助形成和使用概念的过程。
8.无声言语Subvocal Speech
A term used to refer to thought when thought and language are identical or closely parallel to each other.
用于指语言和思维是同一或近乎相同的.
9.神经元Neurons
Lying under the skull, the human brain contains an average of ten billion nerve cells called Neurons.
10.脑半球Hemispheres
The brain is divided into two roughly symmetrical halves, called hemisphere.
11.Broca’s area French Surgeon: Paul Broca
The language centre in the frontal lobe in the left cerebral hemisphere is know as Broca’s area.
12.语言决定论Linguistic determinism
Whorf proposed that all higher levels of thinking are dependent on language, or put it more bluntly, language determines thought, hence the strong notion of linguistic determinism.
13.语言相对论Linguistic relativism
It refers to the belief that speakers of different languages perceive and experience the world differently, that is, relative to their linguistic background.
It’s hypothesis proposed by an American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf concerning language and thought.
二、知识点
1.Three areas of the left hemisphere are vital to language:
Broca’s area. =Expression
Wernicke’s area=Understanding
Angular gyrus. =converting a visual stimulus into an auditory form, vice versa
2.The human brain is the most complicated organ of the body.
3.The most important part of the brain is the outside surface of the brain---Cerebral cortex.
4.The Cortex is the decision-making organ of the body, receiving messages from all the sensory organs and initiating all voluntary actions
6.The process of lateralization is believed to be maturational.
7.Most individuals, the left hemisphere is dominant for language, regardless of handiness.
8.Evidence in support of lateralization for language in left hemisphere comes from researches in Dichotic listening tasks.两耳分听证明了左半球的侧化。
9.Righ hear advantage shows the left hemisphere is not superior for processing all sounds, but only for those that are linguistic in nature, thus providing evidence in support of view that the left side of the brain is specialized for language and that's where language centers reside.
右耳优势证明了大脑左半球并不是处理所有声音时都有优势，只是处理本质上是语言的声音时有优势：大脑左侧负责语言，语言中枢就位于这一部分。
12.Angular gyrus lies behind Wernicke’s area.this area is crucial for the matching of a spoken form with a perceived object, for the naming of objects, for the comprehension of written language and require connections between visual and speech organs.
13.When we listen,the word is heard and comprehended via Wernicke’s area.
14.The critical period hypothesis refers to a period in one’s life extending from about two to puberty.
17. 早期学者针对语言和思想的观点
⑴Plato suggested that thought was the soul’s discourse with itself.
柏拉图认为语言和思想相互统一的。
⑵Aristotle, who argued that mankind could not have the same languages and that languages were but signs of psychological experiences.
亚里士多德认为语言只是人类体现的符号。
The debate between them, one being mentalist, other empiricist.
两个人的观点向背。一个是心灵主义，另一个是经验主义。
⑶Watson, thinking involved the same motor activities used in speaking, Bloomfield, thinking was a system of movements that had been reduced from actual speech to the point where they were no longer visible.
美国的Watson承袭了Plato的观点，Bloomfield提出了近似的观点。
21.Major functions of language
⑴ a means of interpersonal communication.人际交流
⑵ a means of intrapersonal communication.自我交流
三、问答题
1.in what cortical regions are speech and language thought to be localized?
In what have come to be known as Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and angular gyrus, all located in the left hemisphere of the brain.
2.how In your opinion does language relate thought and culture?
Language doesn’t determine the way the speaker perceives the world, but largely functions as a means by which information can be stored and received, by which a culture transmits its belief, values and norms, and by which the speaker interacts other members of the cultures.
3.Describe the processes of language perception, comprehension and production.
It’s been proposed that the brain activity involved in hearing, understanding and then saying a word would follow a definite pattern,
when we listen, the word is heard and comprehended via Wernicke’s area, this signal is then transferred to Broca’s area where preparations are made to produce it. A signal is then sent to the motor area controlling the vocal tract to physically articulate the word.
When we speak, words are drawn from Wernicke’s area and sent to Broca’s area which determines the details of their form and pronunciation. The appropriate instructions are then sent to the motor area.
Chapter 10-11 Language Acquisition
一、定义
1. Language acquisition
Language acquisition refers to the development of the Child’s acquisition of his mother tongue or first language, i.e, how he comes to understand and to speak the language of his community.
3.行为主义学习理论Behaviourist learning theory
It’s a theory of Psychology suggests that the learner’s verbal behaviour is conditioned or reinforced through association between a stimulus and response when applied to first language acquisition.
4.interlanguage 中介语
Proposed by S.Pit Corder and Larry Selinker ,the concept of interlanguage was established as learners’ independent system of the second language which is of neither the native language nor the second language,but a continuum of approximation from his mother language to the target language.
The three important characteristics:systematicity,permeability,fossilization
18.It’s normally assumed that, by the age of five, with an opening vocabulary of more than 2.000 words, children have completed the greater part of the language acquisition process.
20.three main different theories concerning how language is learned
A:the behaviorist traditional behaviorists view language as behavior and believe that language learning is simply a matter of imitation and habit formation.
B:the innatist the linguist Noam Chomsky claims that human beings are bioligically programmed for language and that the language develops in the child just as other biological functions such as walking.
C:the interactionist the interactionist view holds that language develops as a result of the complex interplay between thr human characteristics of the child and the environment in which the child develops
三、问答题
1. what are the major individual factors for SLA（第二语言习得）?
The acquisition of a second language is dependent on a combination of factors.the rate and ultimate success in SLA are also affected by individual learner factors.
(1)The early years of one’s life before puberty;
(2)They must have strong motivation, instrumental or integrative;
(3)The extent to which learners differ in the process of adapting to the new culture of the L2 community, that is , acculturation.
(4)Learner’s personality.
2.Different theories of child language acquisition have been advanced, discuss two contrasting views with reference to the behaviorist learning model and the inatist biological model.
论述行为主义学习理论和生物先天论这两种相对立的观点。
The Behaviourist view:
language acquisition is a process of habit formation. Language is learned through stimulus and response. Reinforcement of selected responses is the key to understanding language development.
Children learn to produce correct sentences because they are positively reinforced when they say something right and negatively reinforced when they say something wrong.
语言习得是一个习惯培养的过程。语言是通过刺激与反应学习的。对有选择的反应的强化是理解语言发展的关键。儿童学会正确的使用语言，是因为他们正确的言语是得到积极强化而错误的言语得到消极强化。
The inatist view:
language acquisition is the species---specific property of human beings, children are born with an innate ability to acquire language ,they are predisposed to develop their native language along a universal, predetermined route through similar stages. They go about acquiring the grammar of their native language using principles unique to language acquisition.
语言习得是人类特有的特性。儿童生来就具有天生的学习语言的能力，他们生来就具有习得本族语的能力，其习得过程沿着一条普遍、自然的轨道，并经历相似的阶段。他们使用语言习得的特有天赋习得本族语的语法。
3.Discuss one major factor which contributes to the difficulties most second language learners encounter.
论述导致大多数第二语言学习者学习困难的一个主要因素。
It has been suggested by some SLA scholars that learning difficulties confronting adultL2 learners arise from the fact that for most people a second language is learned in a formal setting, rather han acquired in a natural environment .
Language acquisition is contrasted with language learning on the ground that acquisition is subconscious, focusing on meaning, which learning is conscious, focusing on form. Its argued that conscious knowledge of linguistic forms does not ensure acquisition of the rules, that is , does not ensure an immediate guidance for actual performance.
习得是无意识的，注重的是意义；学习是由意识的，注重的是形式。
4.Enumerate some causes that lead to the systematic occurrence of errors in second language acquisition.列举第二语言习得中出现系统性错误的一些原因
Some major causes that lead to the systematic occurrence of errors in second language acquisition include
(1)Interference from the mother tongue;母语干扰
(2)Interlingual interference within the target language;目标语的语际语干扰
(3)overgeneralization.过度概括
具体分析
Interference from the mother tongue:
Mother tongue interference is found at the level of pronunciation, morphology, syntax, vocabulary and meaning, and can be predicated by contrasting the grammatical or other systems of the native and target languages.
Interlingual interference:
Interlingual interference，or cross-association, occurs when the learner mixes rules and patterns of the target language and produce hybrid structures.
Overgeneralization：
The use of previously available strategies in new situations, i.e. the application of a particular pattern or rule of the target language in many other linguistic situations
课本外练习资料中的考点内容
一、定义
7.深层结构Deep structure
It’s an abstract level representing the basis for the meaning of a sentence. it consists of a structure generated by phrase structure rules and contains lexical items from the lexcion, but no transformations have yet applied to it.
12.人际交流Intrapersonal communication
It refers to one of the two major functions that language serves. as a means of intrapersonal communication, language facilitates thinking, speech behavior and action for the individual.
二、问答题
1.why is the word order in Modern English more rigid than that in Old English?
Because in Modern English there are no longer the elaborate morphological system used in Old English, such as the case marking system, to help to indicate grammatical relations. therefore, it is no longer possible to identify the functional roles of nouns by their inflectional endings.
The functional notions of subject and object have to be indicated largely by the syntactic position of nouns in a linear order, resulting in a system with stricter constraints on word order.
2.what features of language do you think should be included in a good, comprehensive definition of language?
Language is a rule-governed system.
Language is basically vocal.
Language is arbitrary.
Language is used for human communication.
3.what’s Broca’s area and what will happen if any damage is inflicted upon it?
⑴In 1861, a French surgeon and anatomist Paul Broca discovered that somewhere in the frontal lobe in the left cerebral hemisphere had something to do with speech difficulty. this place is known as Broca’s area.
⑵Any damage to sites in the left cerebral hemisphere will result in a patient’s language disorder, whereas destruction of corresponding sites in the right hemisphere leave linguistic capacities intact.
⑶Therefore if any damage is inflicted upon this area, it will result in word finding difficulties and problems with syntax.
4.sate briefly your understanding of the differences between the term acquisition and the term learning in language acquisition study?
⑴The distinction between acquisition and learning was proposed by the American SLA scholar Stephen Krashen on the assumption that they are different processes.
⑵Acquisition refers to the gradual and subconscious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.
⑶Learning is defined as a conscious process of accumulating knowledge of a second language usually obtained in school settings.
⑷It’s recognized that children acquired their native language without explicit learning, which a second language is more commonly learned but to some degree may also be acquired, depending on the environmental setting and the input received by the L2learner.
⑸A rule can be learned before it is internalized(i.e. acquired),but having learned a rule does not necessarily preclude having to acquire it later.
6.what is the nature of language change in historical linguistics?
语言的本质在历史语言学中的含义？
⑴language change is inevitable.
⑵as a general rule, language change is universal, continuous,to a considerable degree, regular and systematic.
⑶language change is extensive, taking place in virtually all aspects of the grammar—in phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon and semantics.
⑷when language change is in progress, phonemes, morphemes, words, and grammatical rules may be borrowed, added, lost, or altered, and meanwhile, the meaning of individual lexical items or strings of words may expand ,narrow,or shift.
9.语言的两种功能two functions of language?
Two major functions are interpersonal and intrapersonal communication.
人际交流和自我交流
⑴ language functions as a means of interpersonal communication when language users use it to convey information, thoughts and feelings from one person to another or to control each other’s behavior.
⑵ it functions as a means of intrapersonal communication when it is used as a means of facilitate thinking, speech behavior and action for the individual.
10.为什么说结构树形图比线形图可更好的说明句子的层次性？why do we say tree diagrams are more advantageous and informative than linear structure in analyzing the constituent relationship among linguistic elements?
⑴in addition to revealing a linear order, a constituent structure tree has a hierarchical structure that groups words into structural constituents and shows the syntactic category of each structural constituent, and consequently is believed to most truthfully illustrate the constituent relationship among linguistic elements.
⑵for example, the phrase ”the old men and women” may have two interpretation. The adject ”old” may modify the noun ”men ”,or the “women”. or both. linear order analysis cannot tell this difference, so it’s ambiguous. the constituent of tree diagrams analysis can make this difference clear.
一、定义
1. Language acquisition
Language acquisition refers to the development of the Child’s acquisition of his mother tongue or first language, i.e, how he comes to understand and to speak the language of his community.
3.行为主义学习理论Behaviourist learning theory
It’s a theory of Psychology suggests that the learner’s verbal behaviour is conditioned or reinforced through association between a stimulus and response when applied to first language acquisition.
4.interlanguage 中介语
Proposed by S.Pit Corder and Larry Selinker ,the concept of interlanguage was established as learners’ independent system of the second language which is of neither the native language nor the second language,but a continuum of approximation from his mother language to the target language.
The three important characteristics:systematicity,permeability,fossilization
18.It’s normally assumed that, by the age of five, with an opening vocabulary of more than 2.000 words, children have completed the greater part of the language acquisition process.
20.three main different theories concerning how language is learned
A:the behaviorist traditional behaviorists view language as behavior and believe that language learning is simply a matter of imitation and habit formation.
B:the innatist the linguist Noam Chomsky claims that human beings are bioligically programmed for language and that the language develops in the child just as other biological functions such as walking.
C:the interactionist the interactionist view holds that language develops as a result of the complex interplay between thr human characteristics of the child and the environment in which the child develops
三、问答题
1. what are the major individual factors for SLA（第二语言习得）?
The acquisition of a second language is dependent on a combination of factors.the rate and ultimate success in SLA are also affected by individual learner factors.
(1)The early years of one’s life before puberty;
(2)They must have strong motivation, instrumental or integrative;
(3)The extent to which learners differ in the process of adapting to the new culture of the L2 community, that is , acculturation.
(4)Learner’s personality.
2.Different theories of child language acquisition have been advanced, discuss two contrasting views with reference to the behaviorist learning model and the inatist biological model.
论述行为主义学习理论和生物先天论这两种相对立的观点。
The Behaviourist view:
language acquisition is a process of habit formation. Language is learned through stimulus and response. Reinforcement of selected responses is the key to understanding language development.
Children learn to produce correct sentences because they are positively reinforced when they say something right and negatively reinforced when they say something wrong.
语言习得是一个习惯培养的过程。语言是通过刺激与反应学习的。对有选择的反应的强化是理解语言发展的关键。儿童学会正确的使用语言，是因为他们正确的言语是得到积极强化而错误的言语得到消极强化。
The inatist view:
language acquisition is the species---specific property of human beings, children are born with an innate ability to acquire language ,they are predisposed to develop their native language along a universal, predetermined route through similar stages. They go about acquiring the grammar of their native language using principles unique to language acquisition.
语言习得是人类特有的特性。儿童生来就具有天生的学习语言的能力，他们生来就具有习得本族语的能力，其习得过程沿着一条普遍、自然的轨道，并经历相似的阶段。他们使用语言习得的特有天赋习得本族语的语法。
3.Discuss one major factor which contributes to the difficulties most second language learners encounter.
论述导致大多数第二语言学习者学习困难的一个主要因素。
It has been suggested by some SLA scholars that learning difficulties confronting adultL2 learners arise from the fact that for most people a second language is learned in a formal setting, rather han acquired in a natural environment .
Language acquisition is contrasted with language learning on the ground that acquisition is subconscious, focusing on meaning, which learning is conscious, focusing on form. Its argued that conscious knowledge of linguistic forms does not ensure acquisition of the rules, that is , does not ensure an immediate guidance for actual performance.
习得是无意识的，注重的是意义；学习是由意识的，注重的是形式。
4.Enumerate some causes that lead to the systematic occurrence of errors in second language acquisition.列举第二语言习得中出现系统性错误的一些原因
Some major causes that lead to the systematic occurrence of errors in second language acquisition include
(1)Interference from the mother tongue;母语干扰
(2)Interlingual interference within the target language;目标语的语际语干扰
(3)overgeneralization.过度概括
具体分析
Interference from the mother tongue:
Mother tongue interference is found at the level of pronunciation, morphology, syntax, vocabulary and meaning, and can be predicated by contrasting the grammatical or other systems of the native and target languages.
Interlingual interference:
Interlingual interference，or cross-association, occurs when the learner mixes rules and patterns of the target language and produce hybrid structures.
Overgeneralization：
The use of previously available strategies in new situations, i.e. the application of a particular pattern or rule of the target language in many other linguistic situations
课本外练习资料中的考点内容
一、定义
7.深层结构Deep structure
It’s an abstract level representing the basis for the meaning of a sentence. it consists of a structure generated by phrase structure rules and contains lexical items from the lexcion, but no transformations have yet applied to it.
12.人际交流Intrapersonal communication
It refers to one of the two major functions that language serves. as a means of intrapersonal communication, language facilitates thinking, speech behavior and action for the individual.
二、问答题
1.why is the word order in Modern English more rigid than that in Old English?
Because in Modern English there are no longer the elaborate morphological system used in Old English, such as the case marking system, to help to indicate grammatical relations. therefore, it is no longer possible to identify the functional roles of nouns by their inflectional endings.
The functional notions of subject and object have to be indicated largely by the syntactic position of nouns in a linear order, resulting in a system with stricter constraints on word order.
2.what features of language do you think should be included in a good, comprehensive definition of language?
Language is a rule-governed system.
Language is basically vocal.
Language is arbitrary.
Language is used for human communication.
3.what’s Broca’s area and what will happen if any damage is inflicted upon it?
⑴In 1861, a French surgeon and anatomist Paul Broca discovered that somewhere in the frontal lobe in the left cerebral hemisphere had something to do with speech difficulty. this place is known as Broca’s area.
⑵Any damage to sites in the left cerebral hemisphere will result in a patient’s language disorder, whereas destruction of corresponding sites in the right hemisphere leave linguistic capacities intact.
⑶Therefore if any damage is inflicted upon this area, it will result in word finding difficulties and problems with syntax.
4.sate briefly your understanding of the differences between the term acquisition and the term learning in language acquisition study?
⑴The distinction between acquisition and learning was proposed by the American SLA scholar Stephen Krashen on the assumption that they are different processes.
⑵Acquisition refers to the gradual and subconscious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.
⑶Learning is defined as a conscious process of accumulating knowledge of a second language usually obtained in school settings.
⑷It’s recognized that children acquired their native language without explicit learning, which a second language is more commonly learned but to some degree may also be acquired, depending on the environmental setting and the input received by the L2learner.
⑸A rule can be learned before it is internalized(i.e. acquired),but having learned a rule does not necessarily preclude having to acquire it later.
6.what is the nature of language change in historical linguistics?
语言的本质在历史语言学中的含义？
⑴language change is inevitable.
⑵as a general rule, language change is universal, continuous,to a considerable degree, regular and systematic.
⑶language change is extensive, taking place in virtually all aspects of the grammar—in phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon and semantics.
⑷when language change is in progress, phonemes, morphemes, words, and grammatical rules may be borrowed, added, lost, or altered, and meanwhile, the meaning of individual lexical items or strings of words may expand ,narrow,or shift.
9.语言的两种功能two functions of language?
Two major functions are interpersonal and intrapersonal communication.
人际交流和自我交流
⑴ language functions as a means of interpersonal communication when language users use it to convey information, thoughts and feelings from one person to another or to control each other’s behavior.
⑵ it functions as a means of intrapersonal communication when it is used as a means of facilitate thinking, speech behavior and action for the individual.
10.为什么说结构树形图比线形图可更好的说明句子的层次性？why do we say tree diagrams are more advantageous and informative than linear structure in analyzing the constituent relationship among linguistic elements?
⑴in addition to revealing a linear order, a constituent structure tree has a hierarchical structure that groups words into structural constituents and shows the syntactic category of each structural constituent, and consequently is believed to most truthfully illustrate the constituent relationship among linguistic elements.
⑵for example, the phrase ”the old men and women” may have two interpretation. The adject ”old” may modify the noun ”men ”,or the “women”. or both. linear order analysis cannot tell this difference, so it’s ambiguous. the constituent of tree diagrams analysis can make this difference clear.
Chapter 9 language and culture
1.what is culture?
In a broad sense,means integrated pattern of human knowledge,belief,and behavior that is both a result of an integral to the human capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
In a narrow sense ,culture may refer to local or specific practice,beliefs or customs.
2.the relationship between language and culture
since the knowledge and beliefs that constitute a people’s culture are imperceptibly encoded and transmitted in the language of people,it is extremely difficult to separate the two.on the one hand ,language as an intergral part of human being permeates his thinking and way of viewing the world.it both experesses and embodies cultural reality. On the other ,language,as a system of spoken or written symbols used by people in a shared culture to communicate with each other,reflects and affects a culture’s way of thinking and helps perpetuate and change the culture and its influence,which also facillitates the development pof this language at the same time.
3.the significance of culture teaching and learning
Language as the keystone is tightly intertwined with culture. Learning a language is inseparable from learning its culture. We need to learn enough about the language's culture so that we can communicate in the target language properly to achieve not only the linguistic competence but also the pragmatic or communicative competence as well. This is of great significance in learning a foreign or second language.
4.interculture communication
Also known as cross-cultural communication ,is communication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbols systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event.
It is frequently used to refer to communication between people from different cultures ,which implies a comparison between cultures.
As a newly-established discipline,intercultural communication makes multidisciplinary study of politeness across cultures in great detail. It helps to bridge the gap between both cultural and linguistic differences.
As the world is becoming a "global village",its significance becoming more and more self-evident.
1.what is culture?
In a broad sense,means integrated pattern of human knowledge,belief,and behavior that is both a result of an integral to the human capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
In a narrow sense ,culture may refer to local or specific practice,beliefs or customs.
2.the relationship between language and culture
since the knowledge and beliefs that constitute a people’s culture are imperceptibly encoded and transmitted in the language of people,it is extremely difficult to separate the two.on the one hand ,language as an intergral part of human being permeates his thinking and way of viewing the world.it both experesses and embodies cultural reality. On the other ,language,as a system of spoken or written symbols used by people in a shared culture to communicate with each other,reflects and affects a culture’s way of thinking and helps perpetuate and change the culture and its influence,which also facillitates the development pof this language at the same time.
3.the significance of culture teaching and learning
Language as the keystone is tightly intertwined with culture. Learning a language is inseparable from learning its culture. We need to learn enough about the language's culture so that we can communicate in the target language properly to achieve not only the linguistic competence but also the pragmatic or communicative competence as well. This is of great significance in learning a foreign or second language.
4.interculture communication
Also known as cross-cultural communication ,is communication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbols systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event.
It is frequently used to refer to communication between people from different cultures ,which implies a comparison between cultures.
As a newly-established discipline,intercultural communication makes multidisciplinary study of politeness across cultures in great detail. It helps to bridge the gap between both cultural and linguistic differences.
As the world is becoming a "global village",its significance becoming more and more self-evident.
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