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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Chapter 1：Introduction1、Linguistics（语言学） is generally defined as the scientific study of language.(to observe and collect language factsformulates some hypotheses about the language structurefully prove their validity)2、Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human comm

2、unication(语言是一套用于人类交流的任意的口语系统).3、General linguistics（通用语言学）：the study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics.4、Phonetics（语言学），morphology（音位），syntax（形态），semantics（句法），pragmatics（语用），sociolinguistics（社会语言学），psycholinguistics（心理语言学），applied linguistics（应用语言学）5、Prescriptive（规定的）vs. D

3、escriptive（描写的）Prescriptive and descriptive represent two different types linguistic study. If a linguistic study aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, it is said to be descriptive. If the linguistic study aims to lay down rules for “correct and standard” behavior in using l

4、anguage, i.e. to tell people what they should say and what they should not say, it is said to be prescriptive.6、Synchronic（共时的） vs. Diachronic（历时的）Language exists in time and changes through time. The description of a language at some point of time in history is a synchronic study. The description o

5、f a language as it changes through time is a diachronic. A diachronic study of language is a historical study; it studies the historical development of language over a period of time. 7、Langue（语言）vs. Parole（言语）The distinction between langue and parole was made by Swiss linguist F. de Saussure in the

6、 early 20th century. Langue and parole are French words. Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system (抽象的语言系统)shared by all the members of a speech community（言语社区）, and parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use. 8、Competence（语言能力） vs. Performance（言语行为）It was proposed by the Americ

7、an linguist N. CHOMSKY in the late 1950s. Chomsky（乔姆斯基） defines competence as the ideal users knowledge of the rules of his language, and performance the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.9、while Saussures distinction and Chomskys are very similar, they differ at least

8、 in that Saussure（索绪尔） took a sociological（社会逻辑学） view of language and his notion of langue is a matter of social conventions, and Chomsky（乔姆斯基） looks at language from a psychological（心理逻辑学） point of view and to him competence is a property of the mind of each individual.10、Design features of langua

9、ge（区别性特征）：Arbitrariness（任意性this means that there is no logical connection between meaning and sounds, on the other hand, we should be aware that while language is arbitrary by nature, it is not entirely arbitrary; certain words are motivated. The best examples are the onomatopoeic words 拟声词and some

10、compound words混合词 ）productivity（能产性），duality（二重性），displacement（移位），cultural transmission（文化传递）11、Functions of language（语言的功能） Descriptive function（描写功能），expressive function（表达功能），social function（社会功能） Jakobson（雅各布逊）：emotive（表情功能），conative（意动功能），referential（指称功能），poetic（组诗功能），phatic communion（寒暄功能），m

11、etalinguistic（元语言功能） Halliday（韩礼德）：ideational（概念功能），interpersonal（人际功能），textual（语篇功能）Chapter 2：Phonology1、Phonetics（语音学）：is defined as the study of the phonic medium of language; it is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the worlds languages.Phonetics looks at speech sounds from three distin

12、ct but related points of view. First, it studies the sounds from speakers point of view, that is to say, how a speaker uses his speech organs to articulate the sounds. Then, it looks at the sounds from the hearers point of view, that is to say, how the sounds are perceived by the hearer. Lastly, it

13、studies the way sounds travel by looking at the sound waves(声波), the physical（物理方式） means by which sounds are transmitted through the air from one person to another. The three branches of phonetics are labeled articulatory phonetics（发音语言学）, auditory phonetics（听觉语言学）, and acoustic phonetics （声学语言学）re

14、spectively（各自的）. 2、Phonology（音位学）：aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.3、Phone（音素）：is a phonetic unit or segment.Phoneme（音位）：is a phonological unit, it is a unit that is of distinctive value.Allophones（

15、音位变体）：The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the allophones of that phoneme.(同一音位在不同语言环境中的不同出现形式)4、Phonemic contrast（音位对立）：If they are two distinctive phonemes, they are said to form a phonemic contrast.Complementary distribution（互补分布）：if the

16、y are allophones of same phoneme, then they do not distinguish meaning, but complement each other in distribution, they are said to be in complementary distribution.Minimal pair（最小对立体）：the two sounds then represent different phonemes, an easy way to do this is to find the minimal pairs.（when two dif

17、ferent forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment in the same place in strings ,the two words are said to form a minimal pair. 当两个词，除了出现在同一位置上的音外，其余的音都一样，那么这两个词就构成了一个最小的对立体）5、Organs of speech（言语器官）： Pharyngeal cavity（咽腔），oral cavity（口腔），nasal cavity（鼻腔）6、Difference between phonolo

18、gy and phonetics Both phonology and phonetics are concerned with the same aspec of language-the speech sounds. But while both are related to the study of sounds, they differ in their approach and focus. Phonetics is interested in all the speech sounds used in all human languages., how they are produ

19、ced, how they differ from each other, what phonetic features they posses, how they can be classified. Phonology, aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication7、Suprasegmental features（超切分特征）-stress，tone, int

20、onation The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called suprasergmental features.Chapter 3：Morphology1、Morphology（词素）： refers to the part of the grammar that is concerned with word formation and word structure.2、Open class words（开放词类）：nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

21、make up the largest part of vocabulary, they are the content words of a language, which are sometimes called open class words, since new words can be added to these classes regularly.（不断有新词加入）Closed class words（封闭词类）：conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns consist of the “grammatical” or “

22、functional” words. The number of such words is small and stable since few new words are added, therefore such words is have been referred to as closed class words.（很少有新词加入）3、Free morpheme（自由词素）：a morpheme which can be a word by itself.Bound morpheme（粘着词素）：a morpheme that must be attached to another

23、one.4、Derivational morpheme（派生词素）：morphemes which form new words or change the grammatical class of word.Inflectional morpheme（屈折词素）：bound morphemes which signify tense, number, case （格）and so on.Do-doesBoy- boysMorphological (形态学的)rules thus reveal the relations between words and provide the means

24、for forming new words. It is these rules that enable people to coin new words, such hair spray（发胶）, tea ceremony, space walk（太空漫步）, and teach-in（宣讲会 座谈会）. compounding is then a very common and frequent process for enlarging the vocabulary of the English language. Chapter 4：Syntax1、Syntax（句法） is a br

25、anch of linguistics that studies the rules that govern the formation of sentences.Category refers to a group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar function in a particular language such as a sentence, a noun phrase or a verb.2、Major lexical categories（主要词汇范畴） are Noun, Verb, Adjectiv

26、e and Preposition.Minor lexical categories（次要词汇范畴）are Determiner（限定词）, Degree word（程度词）s, Qualifier（修饰词）, Auxiliary and Conjunction（助动词和连词）.Three criteria to determine a words category：meaning, inflection and distribution.3、Phrase elements：head（中心语），specifiers（标志语），complement（补足语）4、Deep structure：fo

27、rmed by the XP rule in accordance with the heads subcategorization properties, is called deep structure（or D-structure）.Surface structure：corresponding to the final syntactic form of the sentence which results from appropriate transformations, is called surface structure（or S-structure）.5、Chomsky：“G

28、enerative Transformational grammar”生产转换语法Complement phrase: the sentence introduced by the complementizer（补语化成分） is called a complement clause. Thus the whole underlined part in the above sentence is called a complement phrase（补语短语）(shorted as CP) and the construction in which the complement phrase

29、is embedded is called Matrix clause(主句).However, it is a misleading to assume that a words category can be told straightforward from its meaning. Firstly, nouns such as dilemma and friendship do not concretely reveal their entities. Secondly, some words such as love and hate which indicate actions t

30、end to be verbs but they can also be used as nouns. Thirdly, words with the same or similar meanings sometimes belong to different word categories. For example, be aware of and know about can have the same meaning but they belong to different word categories. Chapter 5：Semantics1、Semantics（语义学）：can

31、be simply defined as the study of meaning.2、View concerning the study of meaning：the naming theory（命名论），the conceptualist view（概念观），contextualism（语境观），behaviorism（行为观） Semantic triangle or triangle of significance（语义三角）3、sense（抽象意义）：is concerned with the inherent meaning of a linguistic form, the co

32、llection of all its features; it is abstract and de-contextualized（非语境变化）.Reference（具体意义）：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.4、Major sense relations：synonymy（同义现象

33、），polysemy（一词多义），homonymy（同音/形异义），hyponymy（上下义关系），antonymy（反义词）5、Componential analysis（成分分析法）：is a way proposed by the structural semanticists to analyze word meaning.Predication analysis（述谓结构分析法）：a way to analyze sentence meaning.First, the meaning of a sentence is not the sum total of theMeaning o

34、f all its components, that is, the meaning of a sentence is not be worked out by adding up the meaning of all its constituent words. For example, the two sentence: “the dog bit the man” and “the man bit the dog”，through consisting of exactly the same words, differ wildly in what they mean. In this r

35、espect, a sentence is different from a word, the meaning of which is the sum total of all its components, I.e. its semantic features. Chapter 6：Pragmatics1、Pragmatics（语用学）：is the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication.2、Context（语境）：it is generally consid

36、ered as constituted by the knowledge shared by the speaker and the hearer.3、Sentence meaning vs. utterance meaning话语意义（区别）：The meaning of abstract, and decontextualized, that of an utterance is concrete, and context-dependent. The meaning of an utterance is based on sentence meaning; it is the reali

37、zation of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication, or simply in a context. 4、Speech act theory（言语行为理论）：it was originated with the British philosopher John Austin in the late 50s of the 20th century. It is a philosophical explanation of the nature of linguistic communi

38、cation. It aims to answer the question “What do we do when using language?”Traditionally philosophers were interested in the truth-value of sentence,i.e. how to judge whether a sentence is true or false; they believed that a statement was used either to state a fact or to describe a state of affairs

39、. Although a philosopher himself, Austin expressed doubt about this assumption because he found that some statements were not used either to state or to describe, they could not be judged as true or false; rather they were used by the speaker to do something. Thus he made a distinction between what

40、they called “constatives”(述事话语) and“performatives” (行事话语)5、Locutionary act（言内行为）：is the act of uttering words, phrases, and clauses. It is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology.Illocutionary act（言外行为）：is the act of expressing the speakers intention; it is the

41、 act performed in saying something.Perlocutionary act（言后行为）：is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance; it is the act performed by saying something.E.g. You have the door wide open.6、Cooperative Principle（CP）：Gri

42、ce（格赖斯） The maxim of quantity（数量准则）：Make your contribution as informative as required (for the current purpose of the exchange). Do not make your contribution more informative than is required. The maxim of quality（质量准则）：Do not say what you believe to be false. Do not say that for which you lack ade

43、quate evidence. The maxim of relation（关联准则）：Be relevant. The maxim of manner（方式准则）：Avoid obscurity of expression; Avoid ambiguity. Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity). Be orderly.Chapter 7：Language Change1、Historical linguistics（历史语言学）：as a branch of linguistics, is mainly concerned with both the

44、 description and explanation of language changes that occurred over time.2、Addition of new words（新词的添加）：coinage（创新词），clipped words（缩略词），blending（紧缩词），acronyms（词首字母），back-formation（逆构词），functional shift（功能转变），borrowing（外来词）3、Semantic change（语义变化）：semantic broadening（语义扩展），semantic narrowing（语义缩小），semantic shift（语义转换）Chapter 8：Language and Society1、Speech community（言语社团）：The social group that is singled out for any special study is called the speech comm