2008年天津商业大学语言学及翻译考研真题.doc

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2008 年天津商业大学语言学及翻译考研真题 Linguistics (100 marks) I. Studying linguistics, we have come across a lot of technical terms, some of which are listed below. Select six of them and write out the most acceptable definitions for each of them. (12 %) 1) Language; 2)Performance; 3)Phoneme; 4)Morpheme 5)Minimal pairs 6) Deep structure; 7)Theme 8)Semantic triangle; 9)Illocutionary act 11) syntax; 12) semantics II. Studying linguistics we have been acquainted with many linguists, some of whom are listed below. Select six of them and point out very briefly their contributions to linguistics. （12%） 1) Noam Chomsky 2)M. A. K. Halliday 3)L. Bloomfield 4)J. Katz 5) H. P. Grice 6) B. Malinowski 7) William Labov 8)Benjamin Lee Whorf 9) John Austin

10) Dell Hymes 11) Ferdinand de Saussure 12) G. Leech III. The following are some of the abbreviations or acronyms in the field of linguistics. Please write out the full terms these abbreviations or acronyms stand for. (6%) 1. T-G grammar 2. SFL 3. IC 4. CA 5. PS rules 6. CP IV. 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. In phonology, phoneme is an abstract unit that can be realized as different 1)_____________; in morphology, 2) ______________ is an abstract unit which can be realized as different allomorphs. 2. In books, /s/ is an allomorph of 3) ___________. In oxen, 4) __________ is an allomorph of 5) __________. 3. As linguistic forms, /bit/ bit, /bet/ bet, and /bæt/ bat, are distinguished solely by the phonemes of 6)_________, 7)_________, 8)________. They are distinctive because they are articulated differently. Therefore it can be said that the phonemes are 9) ______________ conditioned. 4. In pin, /p/ is articulated as [ph]; in play, /p/ is articulated as [pl]. [ph] and [pl] are therefore 10)____________ of 11)_________ because they are 12)___________distinctive in meaning. 5. In boys /boiz/ and boy’s /boiz/, the 13) _______ represents two different 14)____________, which are 15)_____________ and {POSSESSIVE}. V. To be a student of linguistics, it is important to develop a sense of critical

thinking. Please answer the following questions to demonstrate your critical potentials. (35%) 1. What speech acts does the teacher perform when he says “Stand up!” to a student in class? (5%) 2. What is referential theory? Make a comment on it. (8%) 3. What do you think of componential analysis? Explain it with examples and analyze its shortcomings. (8%) 4. What metafunctions of language did Halliday identify in his functional grammar？ (6%) 5. Can you name some of the branches of linguistics? Which do you like to explore more, and why? (8%) VI. Write two short essays on the following topics to demonstrate your potential of doing linguistics. (20%) 1. How is language related with context? Try to illustrate it with examples. (10%) 2. Which linguistic theory or linguist has impressed you most? Why? (10%) Translation (50 marks) 1.将下列短文译成汉语（25）

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