2004 年上海师范大学语言学基础考研真题
Part One: Linguistics (75 points)
1.One of the definitions of "language"is "It is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols
used for human communication."Elaborate.(15)
2. State the distinction between"acquire"and "learn"a language.(10)
3. Interpret the following diagram.(10)
4. Why are phoneticians more interested in allophone than phonologists?(10)
5.What is an allomorph and cite one example.(10)
6.Why is the phonological component in TG grammar"interpretive"?(10)
7.For
what
reason
is"sentence"a
notion
of"langue"and"utterance"one
of
"parole"?(10)
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Part Two:Literature (75 points)
1. Match the writers with their works by fling in the blanks with suitable
letters:(10)
Define the following terms:(20)
1.The King James Bible
2.The Enlightenment
3.Dramatic monologue
4.Naturalism
5.The Beat Generation
Answer the following questions:(30)
1. What does John Milton want to justify in his Paradise Lost? What does he really
express by that work?
2.In what way is D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers a psychological novel What does
the author want to convey by his work?
3. T.S.Eliot's The Waste Land is said to be a representative modernist work.
Do you agree? Why or why not?
4. Why do critics say that William Faulkner has become as timeless and
spaceless as his stories?
Comment on the following poem:(15)
Apparently with No Surprise
Apparently with no surprise
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play
In accidental power.
The blond assassin passes on.
The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God.