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大学英语专业语言学重点概念复习

大学英语专业语言学重点概念复习
大学英语专业语言学重点概念复习

术语解释:

Language: Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.

Linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific and systematic study of language.

Design features(甑别性特征): Design features refer to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication

Arbitrariness(任意性): It means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds

Productivity /creativity (创造性): Language is productive or creative in that it makes possible the con-struction and interpretation of new signals by its users.

Recursiveness(递归性): according to some linguistic theories , the capacity that enables the grammar of a language to produce an infinite number of sentences.

Cultural transmission(文化传递性):It refers to the fact that the details of the linguistic system must be learned anew by each speaker. Language is not transmitted biologically from generation to generation.

Interchangeability(可交替性):means that any human being can be both a producer and receiver of messages.

Displacement(移位性): Displacement means that human language enable their users to symbolize objects,events and concepts which are not present(in time and space) at the moment of communication.

Duality(二元性): The duality nature of language means that language is a system, which consists of two sets of structure, or two levels, one of sounds and the other of meanings.

Informative(信息功能): The use of language to record facts to state what things are like, and to exchange information.

Interpersonal Function(人际功能): It is the most important sociological use of language, by which people establish and maintain their status in a society.

Performative(行为功能):Language can be used to do things, to change the social status or the immediate state of affairs of people.

Emotive Function(情感功能):Language can be used to express the emotional state of the speaker.

Phatic Communion(交流功能):This function refers to expressions that help define and maintain interpersonal relations.

Ritual exchange: exchange that have little meaning but help to maintain our relationships with other people.

Recreational Function(娱乐功能): the use of language to have fun.

Metalingual Function(元语言功能):language can be used to explain or describe itself or other languages.

研究语言学坚持的原则:Exhaustiveness穷尽性Consistency一致性Economy 经济性Objectivity客观性

Phonetics(语言学): The study of sounds which are used in linguistic communication is called phonetics. / the characteristics of speech sounds and provide methods for their description, classification, transcription

Phonology(音韵学): The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication.

Morphology(形态学): The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words is called morphology.

Syntax(句法): The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax. / the rule governing the combination of words into sentences

Semantics(语义学): It studies how meaning is encoded in a language. / The study of meaning in language is called semantics.

Pragmatics(语用学): The study of meaning in context of use is called pragmatics. Macrolinguistics(宏观语言学): the interdisciplinary study of language.

Psycholinguistics(心理语言学): The study of language with reference to the workings of mind is called psycholinguistics.

Sociolinguistics(社会语言学): The study of language with reference to society is called sociolinguistics.

Anthropological Linguistics(人类语言学): It mainly concerned with the change of language, the different between language in the past and in the present, and its evolution.

Computational Linguistics(计算机语言学): an interdisciplinary branch of study in which mathematical techniques and concepts are applied often with the aid of a computer.

Applied linguistics(应用语言学): Finding in linguistic studies can often be applied to the solution of practical problems such as the recovery of speech ability.

Neurolinguistics(神经语言学):It studies the neurological basis of language development and use in human beings.

Descriptive(描述的):If a linguistic study aims to describe and analyse the language people actually use.

Prescriptive(规定的):It aims to lay down rules for "correct and standard" behavior in using language.

Competence(能力): Chomsky defines competence as the ideal speaker's knowledge of the underlying system of rules in a language,

Performance(表现): refers to the actual use of the language by a speaker in a real communicational context.

Synchronic(共时性):study of language takes a fixed instant as its point of observation. It refers to the description of a language at some point of time in history.

Diachronic(历时性):study examines language through the course of time. It studies the development or history of language.In other words, it refers to the description of a language as it changes through time.

langue(语言): refers to the speaker's understanding and knowledge of the language that he speaks.It's a social phenomenon,an abstraction shared by all the members within a speech community.

Parole(言语): Parole refers to the actual speaking of language by an individual speaker. It's an individual linguistic phenomenon .

Differences: Langue is the set of conventions and rules which language use rs all have to follow; Parole is the concrete use of the conventions and the application of the rules. Langue is relatively stable, while Parole varies fro m person to person, from situation to situation. Langue is abstract; Parole is concrete.

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Articulatory phonetics(发音语音学): is the study of the production of speech sounds.

Acoustic phonetics(听觉发音学): is the study of the physical properties of speech sounds.

Auditory/Perceptual phonetics(感知语音学): is concerned with the perception of …

Speech Organs(发音器官): Organs in human body whose secondary use is in the production of speech sounds.

International phonetic alphabet(国际音标): It is a standardized and internation ally accepted system of phonetic transcription.

Consonants(辅音):The sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the airstream at some point of the vocal tract.

Vowels(元音):sounds in the production of which no two articulators come very close together and no airstream is obstructed at any point of vocal tract

Vowel glides/ Diphthongs(双元音): It's produced by moving from one vowel position to another through intervening positions.It's has an audible change of quality.

Coarticulation(协同发音):when such simultaneous or overlapping articulations are involved, we call the process coarticulation.

Complementary distribution(互补分布):when two sounds never occur in the same environment, they are said to be in complementary distribution.

Free variation(自由变体);when the substitution of one sound for the other does not produce a new word.

Phoneme(音素): The basic unit in phonology is called phoneme; it is a unit of distinctive value. But it is an abstract unit. To be exact, a phoneme is not a sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features. / minimal linguistic unit of sound that can distinguish.

Allophone(音位变体): The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the allophones of that phoneme.

Phonetic similarity(语音相似性):means that the allophones of a phoneme must bear some phonetic resemblance.

Intonation(声调): When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation.

phone (音子): Phones can be simply defined as the speech sounds we use when speaking a language. A phone is a phonetic unit or segment. It does not necessarily distinguish meaning.

phonemic contrast(音位对立): Phonemic contrast refers to the relation between two phonemes. If two phonemes can occur in the same environment and distinguish meaning, they are in phonemic contrast.

Tone(语气): Tones are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords.

minimal pair(最小音差): 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.

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Design features(定义特征): the distinctive features of human language that essentially make human language distinguishable from languages of animals. Synchronic(共时的): said of an approach that studies language at a theoretical “point” in time. Diachronic(历时的): said of the study of development of language and languages over time. Prescriptive(规定式): to make an authoritarian statement about the correctness of a particular use of language. Descriptive(描写式): to make an objective and systematic account of the patterns and use of a language or variety. Competence(语言能力): unconscious knowledge of the system of grammatical rules in a language. 对于一门语言的语法规则系统的无意识获得的知识。Performance(语言运用):

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