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2014年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题

考试科目：846英语语言学基础知识及运用

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I. Define the following terms with examples if necessary (30 points, 5 points each):

1. duality

2. metalanguage

3. minimal pairs

4. lexeme

5. connotation

6. immediate constituent analysis

II. Make a judgment and an evaluation of the following with your own reasons (20 points, 4 points

each):

1. Endocentric construction differs from exocentric construction in that the distribution of the former is

functionally equivalent to that of one or more of its constituents, i.e., a word or a group of words serves as a definable center or head.

2. “The contexts of an utterance determine its meaning …Since no two contexts are ever exactly the

same …, to insist dogmatically that we know what a word means in advance of its utterance is nonsense. ”

3. When analyzing the meanings of a polysemantic word, diachronically we try to find the central

meaning among all its meanings by frequency value, whereas synchronically the original meaning will be detected.

4. Linguistic communications are usually presented to us in the form of written text or speech. While the

process of comprhension appears to be similar in both cases, some of the initial stages of processing differ.

5. Since communication is a social activity, it could be said that speech is also social, not individual.

III. Briefly answer the following questions (45 points; 9 points each):

1. Please analyze Nida’s idea “words are sometimes culturally-specific” with examples.

2. In speech communications, we may conclude that generally the male style is report-speaking while the

female style is rapport-speaking. Please explain this with examples.

3. Halliday once stated that the subject, in its traditional sense, is a complex of four distinct functions,

three in the structure of the clause and one in the information structure. Would you please try to explain these four functions of the subject in the following clause?

The lion caught the tourist.

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