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1、新编简明英语语言学教程Chapter one Introduction一、定义1 .语言学LinguisticsLinguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.2 .普通语言学General LinguisticsThe study of language as a whole is often called General linguistics.3 .语言languageLanguage is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human com
2、munication.语言是人类用来交际的任意性的有声符号体系。4 .识别特征Design FeaturesIt refers to the defining poperties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication.语言识别特征是指人类语言区别与其他任何动物的交际体系的限定性特征。Arbitrariness 任意性Productivity 多产性Duality 双重性Displacement 移位性Cultural transmission 文化传递 arbitrarines
3、sThere is no logical connection between meanings and sounds.P.S the arbitrary nature of language is a sign of sophistication and it makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions ProductivityAnimals are quite limited in the messages they are able to send. DualityLanguage i
4、s a system, which consists of two sets of structures ,or two levels. DisplacementLanguage can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. Cultural transmissionHuman capacity for language has a genetic basis, but we have to be taught and learned the details of a
5、ny language system. this showed that language is culturally transmitted. not by instinct. animals are born with the capacity to produce the set of calls peculiar to their species.5 .语言能力CompetenceCompetence is the ideal user s knowledge of thies lraunlegsuaogf eh.6 .语言运用performancePerformance is the
6、 actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.语言运用是所掌握的规则在语言交际中的体现。7 .历时语言学Diachronic linguisticsThe study of language change through time. a diachronic study of language is a historical study, which studies the historical development of language over a period of time.8 .共时语言学Syn
7、chronical linguisticsThe study of a given language at a given time.9 .语言langueThe abstract linguistic system shared by all members of a speech community.10 .言语 paroleThe realization of langue in actual use.11 .规定性PrescriptiveIt aims to lay down rules forII correct II behavior, to tell people what th
8、eyshould say and what should not say.12 .描述性 DescriptiveA linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use.二、知识点12.1 nguage is not an isolated phenomenon, it s a social activity carried oin a certain social environment by human beings.语言不是一种孤立的现象， 而是人类在一定的社会环境下进行的一种社会活动。2 .几种
9、观点和现象的提出者：瑞士语言学家 F.de Saussure F.de Saussure:Lang而e parole 的区另UU.S.A linguist N.Chomsky 美国语言学家 N.Chomskyin1950 针对 Saussure s langue&parole提出 Competence口 performance 曾经对语言概念下过定义的语言学家Sapir-language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communication ideas, emotions and desires by means of vo
10、luntarily produced symbols.Halllanguage is the institution whereby humans communicate andinteract with each other by means of habitually used oral-auditory arbitrary symbols.Chomsky-from now on I will consider language to be a set of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite s
11、et of elements. U.S.A Linguist Charles Hockett 美国语言学家 Charles Hockett提出了语言的识别特征design features3 .the word languagepreceded by the zero-article ,it implies that linguistics studies not any particular language.Language一词前不加冠词说明语言学家不只研究一种特定的语言。4.in order to discover the nature of the underlying languag
12、e system ,what the linguists has to do first if to study language facts.5.language is a complicated entity with multiple layers and facts, so its hardly possible for the linguistics to deal with it all at once. 判断题6.Frist drew the attention of the linguists were the sounds used in languages最先引起语言学家注
13、意的是语言的发音。三、问答题1 .what are major branches of linguistics? what does each study?Phoneticsit s defined as the study of the phonic medium of language,it s concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world s languPhonology-the study of sounds systems the inventory of distinctive sounds that occur in
14、a language and the patterns into which they fall.Morphology- It as branch of a grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.Syntaxits a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structureof a language.Semantics-It s simply defined as the study
15、 of meaning in abstraction.Pragmatics-the study of meaning in context of words.Sociolinguistics the study of language with reference to society.Psycholinguistics-the study of language with reference to the working of the mind.Applied linguistics-the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning.2 .why do we say language is arbitrary?Language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connectionbetween the sounds that people use and the objects to which these sounds refer.The fact that different languages have different words for
