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天津商业大学2015年研究生入学考试试题

专 业：外国语言学及应用语言学

课程名称：语言学及翻译（804） 共 5页 第1 页 说明：答案标明题号写在答题纸上，写在试题纸上的无效。

Linguistics (100 marks)

I. Studying linguistics, we have come across a lot of technical terms, some of which are listed below. Please write out the most acceptable definitions for each of them. (10 %)

1) applied linguistics 2) displacement 3) cultural transmission

4) open class words 5) free morpheme 6) syntax 7) superordinate

8) locutionary act 9) acronyms 10) intercultural communication

II. Studying linguistics we have been acquainted with many linguists, some of whom are listed below. Write out a phrase that may best represent their contributions to linguistics. （10%）

1) Ferdinand de Saussure ; 2) M. A. K. Halliday; 3) Edward Sapir;

4) Paul Grice ; 5) Noam Chomsky.

III. Linguistics as a specified discipline has its own technical ways of operation. Try to fill the blanks to demonstrate your technical sense of linguistics. (15%)

1. The study of 1)__________ used in linguistic communication led to the establishment of phonetics.

2. When the study of meaning is conducted, not in isolation, but in the context of language use, it becomes another branch of linguistic study called

2)___________.

3. Language exists in time and changes through time. The description of a language

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