语言学重点概念总结

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）:

the language actually used by people in speaking or writing.

人们说话写作时实际使用的语言。

Langue（语言）:

the language system shared by a “speech community”.

一个“语言社团”共有的语言系统。

Parole（言语）:

the concrete utterances of a speaker.

说话人实际说的话语。

Phonology（音系学）：

the study of the sound patterns and sound systems of language. It aims to discover the principles that govern the way sounds are organized in languages, and to explain the variations that occur.

International Phonetic Alphabet（国际音标）:

a set of standard phonetic symbols in the form of a chart (the IPA chart), designed by the International Phonetic Association since 1888. It has been revised from time to time to include new discoveries and changes in phonetic theory and practice. Cardinal Vowels（基本元音）:

a set of vowel qualities arbitrarily defined, fixed and unchanging, intended to provide a frame of reference for the description of the actual vowels of existing languages.

Assimilation（同化现象）:

a process by which one sound takes on some or all the characteristics of a neighboring sound, a term often used synonymously with “coarticulation”. If a following sound is influencing a preceding sound, it is called regressive ”assimilation”; the converse process, in which a preceding sound is

influencing a following sound, is known as progressive ”assimilation”.

Maximal Onset Principle（最大节首原则）:

a principle for dividing the syllable when there is a cluster of consonants between two vowels, which states that when there is a choice as to where to place a consonant, it is put into the onset rather than the coda.

Morpheme（语素）:

the smallest unit of language in terms of the relationship between expression and content, a unit that cannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical. Inflection（屈折变化）:

is the manifestation of grammatical relationship through the addition of inflectional affixes such as number, person, finiteness, aspect and cases to which they are attached.

Derivation（派生词）:

is the most common word-formation process to be found in the production of new English words. It is accomplished by means of a large number of affixes of English language, and shows the relationship between roots and affixes.

Bound morpheme（黏着语素）:

refer to those which cannot occur alone and must appear with at least one other morpheme.

Free morpheme（自由语素）:

refer to those which may occur alone or which may constitute words by themselves.

Grammatical word（语法词）:

refer to those which mainly work for constructing group, phrase, clause complex, or even text, such as, conjunctions, prepositions, articles, and pronouns. Grammatical words serve to link together different content parts.

Lexical word（词汇词）:

refer to those which mainly work for referring to substance, action and quality, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Lexical words carry the main content of a language.

Closed-class（封闭类）:

A word that belongs to the CLOSED-CLASS is one whose membership is fixed or limited, such as pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and others. One cannot easily add or deduce a new member.

Open-class（开放类）:

is one whose membership is in principle infinite or unlimited. When new ideas, inventions, or discoveries emerge, new members are continually and constantly being added to the lexicon. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and many adverbs are all open-class items.

Syntax（句法）:

the study of the rules governing the ways different constituents are combined to

form sentences in a language, or the study of the interrelationships between elements in sentence structures.

Co-occurrence（共现）:

It means that words of different sets of clauses may permit, or require, the occurrence of a word of another set or class to form a sentence or a particular part of a sentence.

Endocentric（向心结构）:

endocentric construction is one whose distribution is functionally equivalent to that of one or more of its constituents, which serves as a definable Center or Head of the whole.

Exocentric（离心结构）:

exocentric construction refers to a group of syntactically related words where none of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as a whole, that is, there is no definable “Centre” or “Head” inside the group.

Subordination（从属关系）:

refers to the process or result of linking linguistic units so that they have different syntactic status, one being dependent upon the other, and usually a constituent of the other. The subordinate constituents are words which modify the head. Consequently, they can be called modifiers.

Coordination（并列）:

a common syntactic pattern in English and other languages formed by grouping together two or more categories of the same type with the help of a conjunction such as and, but and or .

Cohesion:

refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text, that define it as a text.

Synonymy（同义关系）:

synonymy is the technical name for one of the sense relations between linguistic units, namely the sameness relation.

Semantic components（语义成分）:

semantic components, or semantic features, are semantic units smaller than the meaning of a word. For example, the meaning of the word boy may be analysed into three components: HUMAN, YOUNG and MALE.

Psycholinguistics（心理语言学）:

psycholinguistics is the study of psychological aspects of language; it usually studies the psychological states and mental activity associated with the use of language. As an interdisciplinary academic field based on psychology and linguistics, psycholinguistics investigates the six following subjects: language acquisition, language comprehension, language production, language disorders, language and thought, and cognitive architecture of language, The most important research subjects are acquisition, comprehension and production. Language acquisition（语言习得）:

language acquisition is one of the central topics in psycholinguistics. Acquiring a

first language is something every child does successfully, in a matter of a few years and without the need for formal lessons. Four phases are identified and acknowledged in the process of language acquisition: holophrastic stage, two-word stage, three-word utterances, and, fluent grammatical conversation stage.

cohort model（集群模型）:

The cohort model is a supposed doctrine dealing with the spoken word recognition postulated by Marslen-Wilson and Welsh in 1990, it is suggested that the first few phonemes of a spoken word activate a set or cohort of word candidates that are consistent with the input. These candidates compete with one another for activation. As more acoustic input is analyzed, candidates that are no longer consistent with the input drop out of the set. This process continues until only one word candidate matches the input; the best fitting word may be chosen if no single candidate is a clear winner.

interactive model（交互模型）:

The interactive model holds that in recognizing the spoken words higher processing levels have a direct, “top-down”influence on lower levels. Lexical knowledge can affect the perception of phonemes. There is interactivity in the form of lexical effects on the perception of sublexical units. In certain cases, listeners’ knowledge of words can lead to the inhibition of certain phonemes; in other cases, listeners continue to “hear”phonemes that have been removed from the speech signal and replaced by noise.

serial model（串行模型）:

Serial model proposes that the sentence comprehension system continually and sequentially follows the constraints of a language’s grammar with remarkable speed. Serial model describes how the processor quickly constructs one or more representations of a sentence based on a restricted range of information that is guaranteed to be relevant to its interpretation, primarily grammatical information. Any such representation is then quickly interpreted and evaluated, using the full range of information that might be relevant.

parallel model（并行模型）:

Parallel model emphasizes that the comprehension system is sensitive to a vast range of information, including grammatical, lexical, and contextual, as well as knowledge of the speaker/writer and of the world in general. Parallel model describes how the processor uses all relevant information to quickly evaluate the full range of possible interpretations of a sentence. It is generally acknowledged that listeners and readers integrate grammatical and situational knowledge in understanding a sentence.

figure-ground alignment（图形-背景关系）:

Figure-ground alignment seems to apply to space with the ground as the prepositional object and the preposition expressing the spatial relational configuration. It also applies to human perception of moving objects. Since the moving object is typically the most prominent one, because it is moving, it is typically the figure, while the remaining stimuli constitute the ground.

basic level category（基本层次畴）:

Basic level category is the most economical level at which you can find the most relevant information. The information on our interactions with objects in the real world are stored at this level. It is at this level that we conjure up the general gestalt of the category.

image schema（意象图式）:

Image schema is a recurring, dynamic pattern of our perceptual interactions and motor programs that gives coherence and structure to our experience. Metaphor（隐喻）:

Metaphor involves the comparison of two concepts in that one is construed in terms of the other. It’s often described in terms of a target domain and a source domain. The target domain is the experience being described by the metaphor and the source domain is the means that we use in order to describe the experience.

Metonymy（转喻）:

Metonymy is a figure of speech that has to do with the substitution of the name of one thing for that of another.

Communicative Competence（交际能力）:

is a sociolinguistic rule put forward by Dell Hymes in contrast with the “competence” vs. “performance” dichotomy in theoretic linguistics. Context of Situation（语境理论）:

is a framework put forward by Firth. This theory has the following elements (Firth, 1950: 43-44 [Palmer, 1981: 53-54]).

A. The relevant features of the participants: persons, personalities:

(i) The verbal action of the participants.

(ii) The non-verbal action of the participants.

B. The relevant objects.

C. The effects of the verbal action.

Ethnography of Communication（交际民族学）:

is an authoritative research framework of our time in a linguistic study of social and cultural factors (Hymes, 1962).

Speech Community（话语群体）:

refers to a group of people who “share not only the same rules of speaking, but at least one linguistic variety as well.”(Hymes, 1972: 52) SPEAKING: is a mnemonic way of summarizing certain components of speech which make possible the description and analysis of communicative behavior: S=Situation（场景）, P=Participants（参与者）, E=Ends（目的）, A=Act sequence（相关形式与容）, K=Key （语气）, I=Instrumentalities（语式）, N=Norms（准则）, and G=Genres（体裁）. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis（萨丕尔--沃尔夫假设）:

is a theoretic assumption which suggests that our language helps mould our way of thinking and, consequently, different languages may probably express speakers' unique ways of understanding the world. In a loose sense, this term can be interchangeably used with linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism.

Variationist Linguistics（语言变体）:

is a theoretic framework advanced by William Labov to study how language variation and change take place in different social contexts or geographic districts under the influence of social factors such as economics, education, class, gender, style, and so on. The method it uses is basically quantitative, but qualitative instruments have recently been introduced in this branch of linguistic research for a better description and explanation of the data collected.

performative（施为句）:

A performative is a sentence like “I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth”, which does not describe things and cannot be said to be true or false. The uttering of a performative sentence is, or is a part of, the doing of an action. Verbs like “name” are known as performative verbs.

locutionary act（发话行为）:

The locutionary act is the ordinary act we perform when we speak, i.e. we move our vocal organs and produce a number of sounds, organized in a certain way and with a certain meaning. For example, when somebody says “Morning!”, we could say he produced a sound, word or sentence—“Morning!”perlocutionary act（取效行为）:

The perlocutionary act concerns the consequential effects of a locution upon the hearer. By telling somebody something the speaker may change the opinion of the hearer on something, or mislead him, or surprise him, or induce him to do something, etc. Whether or not these effects are intended by the speaker, they can be regarded as part of the act that the speaker has performed. illocutionary act（行事行为）:

The illocutionary act is the act performed in the performing of a locutionary act. When we speak we not only produce some units of language with certain meanings, but also make clear our purpose in producing them, the way we intend them to be understood, or they also have certain forces as Austin prefers to say. In the example of “Morning!” we can say it has the force of a greeting, or it ought to have been taken as a greeting.

cooperative principle（合作原则）:

This is the principle suggested by Grice about the regularity in conversation, which reads “Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged”. There are four categories of maxims under it, namely, quantity maxims, quality maxims, relation maxim, and manner maxims. conversational implicature（会话含义）:

This is a type of implied meaning, which is deduced on the basis of the conventional meaning of words together with the context, under the guidance of the CP and its maxims. In this sense, implicature is comparable to illocutionary force in speech act theory in that they are both concerned with the contextual side of meaning, or 言外之意in Chinese.

entailment（衍推）:

This is a logical relationship between two sentences in which the truth of the second necessarily follows from the truth of the first, while the falsity of the first follows from the falsity of the second. For example, when “I saw a boy” is true, “I saw a child” is necessarily true; and if “I saw a child” is not true, “I saw a boy” will not be true either.

third-person narrator（第三人称叙述者）:

If the narrator is not a character in the fictional world, he or she is usually called a THIRD-PERSON NARRATOR, because reference to all the characters in the fictional world of the story will involve the use of the third-person pronouns, he, she, it or they. This type of narrator is arguably the dominant narrator type.

i-narrator（第一人称叙述者）:

The person who tells the story may also be a character in the fictional world of the story, relating the story after the event. In this case the critics call the narrator a FIRST-PERSON NARRATOR or I-NARRATOR because when the narrator refers to himself or herself in the story the first person pronoun I is used. First-person narrators are often said to be “limited”because they don't know all the facts or “unreliable” because they trick the reader by withholding information or telling untruths. This often happens in murder and mystery stories.

concordance（共现索引）:

sorting the data in some way, for example, alphabetically on words occurring in the immediate context of the word.

corpus（语料库）:

a collection of linguistic data, either compiled as written texts or as a transcription of recorded speech. The main purpose of a corpus is to verify a hypothesis about language, for example, to determine how the usage of a particular sound, word, or syntactic construction varies.