语言学概论课后参考答案杨信彰.docx

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语言学概论课后参考答案杨信彰

语言学概论-课后参考答案--杨信彰

Charpter1

1.1.1

1.a.Thissentencemayhavethreeinterpretations:

1）Herolledfromsidetosideinhisgrave.2）Hereturnedhisgrave.3）Hehandedinhisgrave.

　b.Therearetwointerpretationstothissentence:

1）Theygavepreferencetobothyoungmenandyoungwomen.2）Theygavepreferencetowomenandyoungmen.

2.Unitsthathavereference:

I,saw,Mary,went,thelibrary.

　　Unitsthatindicatestructure:

when,to.

3.a.Thissentenceisgrammatical,butisnonsensical.

b.Thissentenceisungrammaticalandnonsensical.

c.Thisisagoodsentence.

d.Thisisagoodsentence.

1.1.2

1.a.Thissignisasymbol.Itmeanswewillhavegoodluck.Iknowitfrommyculturalbackground,becausetheChinesecharacter"福"means"luck"andthecolorredsymbolizes"goodness".TheChinesemeaningof"upsidedown"is"倒",whichhasthesimilarpronunciationof"到（arrive）".Thus,whenthecharacter"福"isputupsidedown,itmeansthatluckarrives.

　b.Thissignisanicon.Itmeansnosmoking,andIknowitfromthepicture.

　c.Thissignisamixtureofasymbolandaicon.Itmeansthat"parking"isonlyallowedfordisabledpeople.

2.Ithinkthehouseisonfirebecausesmokeisaindexoffire.

3.Tothephysician,itmeansthatthemanhasgotafever.

4.Ithinkso,butnotexactly,becausethedifferenceoftheconsonantsdoesnotmeanthebirdindifferentplacescriesdifferently.

1.1.3

1.accordingtothearbitrarinesstheory,theformsoflinguisticsignsbearnonaturalresemblancetotheirmeaning.Thelinkbetweenthemisamatterofconvention.Thus,thenameXiaoLongisjustalabelfortheson.However,inChineseculturedragonwasthesymbolfortheemperor.Thus,thenamemayhavecertainassociativemeanings.

2.No.Thespeakerofalanguage,basedupontheconventionestablishedinthespeechcommunity,associateslinguisticsignswiththingsandconcepts.Inpeople'smind,"pig"standsforfoolishnessandlaziness.IfInameitPigHairShampoo,noonewillbuyit.

3.Wordsarearbitraryinform,buttheyarenotrandomintheiruse.Althoughthelinkbetweenformandmeaningisarbitrary,thereexistedcertainrelationshipbetweenthem,whichcanbecalledrules.Theindividualdoesnothavethepowertochangeasigninanywayonceithasbecomeestablishedinthelinguisticcommunity.

2.Currently,wecannotsaythatalllanguagesintheworldderivedfromonecommonancestor.Itmightbetruethatsomelanguageshavedivergedfromonecommonancestor,forexample,French,Spanish,ItalianandotherRomancelanguageswereclearlydescendedfromLatin,butnoevidenceshowthatalllanguagesintheworldhavethesameorigin.Asresearchshows,thereareatleast29languagefamiliesintheworld.However,thisproblemwillbesolvedwhenwehaveenoughevidencetoshowthathumanbeingshaveonecommonancestor.

3.Themajorcausesforthelanguagediversityintheworldincludegrammaticalstructure,historicalfactors,socialfactors,interculturalcontact,etc.

1.4.1

1.Thetwosentencesperformthesamefunctionofrequesting.However,Thetwosentenceshavedifferentchoicesofwordsandsyntaxstructures.Sentence（a）isstructurallyanimperativesentence,whileSentence（b）takestheformofaquestionandtheword'please'isadded.So,theeffectsofthetwoutterancesaredifferent.Sentence（b）wouldsoundmorepolite.Whenwearedecodingthem,wewouldtakeintoaccountsuchfactorsaschoiceofwordsandsyntacticstructures,theprincipleofpolitenessandthecontext.

2.Asascience,linguisticsdemandsascientificoutlookuponlanguage.Toconductastudyoflanguagescientifically,wemusttakeanobjectiveviewoflanguageandalllinguisticphenomenaandstudylanguageandreflectonitinadetachedandunbiasedway.Evenalocalvarietywithfewnativespeakersmayalsofallwithinourinvestigations.Moreover,weshouldadoptthegeneralprinciplesofempiricalresearchprocedurestoobserveandanalyzedatafoundinnaturallanguages.

3.Therealobjectoflinguisticsistofindoutfundamentalrulesthatunderlieallthelanguagesintheworld.Weneedtolookintothecommonfeaturesofalllanguages,therangeofvariationsamonglanguages,thedifferenceofhumanlanguagesfromanimalcommunication,thechangeandevolutionoflanguage,therelationoflanguagetomindandsociety,andsoon.

1.4.2

1.Itisveryimportanttostudyspeechinlinguistics,becauselanguageisprimarilyvocal.Asweknow,nocommunityhasawrittenformonly,thoughmanyhaveaspokenlanguageonly.Childrenlearnspokenlanguagefirstandmosteasily.Earlierinthe20thcenturycertainlinguistsbegantodoubtthepriorityofwriting.Bloomfieldarguedthatwritingwasnotlanguagebutmerelyawayofrecordinglanguage.Thecontemporarylinguisticsmaintainsthatthespokenlanguageisprimaryandthatwritingisessentiallyameansofrepresentingspeechinanothermedium.Linguisticshasstressedthepriorityofspeechbecauseitisthe"natural,"orprimary,mediuminwhichlanguageismanifest,andwrittenlanguagederivesfromthetransferenceofspeechtoasecondary,visualmedium.

2.Thereisnoabsolutestandardofcorrectnessbecauselinguisticsisdescriptive,notprescriptive.Differentgroupsofpeoplemayusedifferentvarietiesoflanguage.Thecorrectnessinlanguageuseshouldnotbeprescribedgrammatically.

3.Inreality,itisimpossibletohaveastandardlanguage.Thereasonisthatlinguisticsisdescriptive,notprescriptive.Thereisnoabsolutestandardofcorrectness.What'smore,asweknow,withthepassageoftime,alllanguagesaresubjecttochange.Alllivinglanguagesaretheretoservethedifferentsocialneedsofthecommunitiesthatusethem.Astheseneedschange,languageswilltendtochangetomeetthenewsituations.Thus,astandardlanguageisnotpossible.

1.5.1

1.Therearemanyexternalfactorsrelatedtolanguage.Culturalfactorsinfluencethefullmeaningofthelanguageconveys.Socialfactorsincludethesocialbackgroundsofboththespeakerandtheaddressee（i.e.theirage,sex,socialclass,ethnicbackground,degreeofintegrationintotheirneighborhood,etc.）,therelationshipbetweenspeakerandaddresseeandthecontextandmanneroftheinteraction.Psychologicalfactorshaveeffectsonpeople'sbehaviors.

2.Thoughtherearemanytranslationsoftwaresinthemarket,translationsdonebymachinesarefulloferrorsandrequiremuchpost-editing.Thekeyproblemisthelackofagoodlinguistictheorytoprovideaframeofreferenceformachinetranslation.Itisunlikelythatmachineswillreplacehumantranslators.

3.Foreignlanguagelearningandteachinginvolvesseveralinterrelatedfactors.Theseare:

linguistictheories,situationalfactors,inputandinteraction,learnerdifferences,learnerprocesses,linguisticoutput,curriculumandsyllabusdesign,teachingmethodology,learnerandteacherroles,textbookwriting,languageplanning,andsoon.

1.5.2

1.Linguisticstudieshavegonethroughmanychanges.Sincethe1930sdowntothepresent,theexpansionofknowledgeinsomanydirectionshaveledtoseveralattemptstomakesynthesisandtodevelopaunifiedtheoryoflanguage.SeveralschoolsofthoughthaveemergedroundafewprominentlinguistssuchasFirth,Halliday,HjelmslevandChomsky,majorcentersoflinguisticstudylikePragueSchool,GenevaSchool,CopenhagenSchool,andleadingconceptssuchasstructuralism,functionalism,tagmemics,systemicfunctionalgrammar,transformationalgenerativegrammar,speechacttheory.

2.Ithinkdiscourseanalysisisaproperwaytostudylanguage.Traditionallinguisticanalysishasconcentratedontheinternalstructureofsentences,butdiscourseanalysisisinterestedintheanalysisofunitslargerthansentences.Thus,thetermdiscourseortextreferstoalllinguisticunitswithadefinablecommunicativefunction,spokenorwritten.Itstressestheneedtoseelanguageasadynamic,social,andinteractivephenomenon.

3.Acorpusisalwaysneededinlinguistics.Overthepastfewyears,thestudyoflanguageinactualusehasrequiredacorpus-basedresearch.Scholarsneedacorpustoanalyzepatternsofuseinnaturaltexts.Theimportanceofcorpustolanguagestudyisalignedtotheimportanceofempiricaldatabecauseempiricaldataenablethelinguisttomakeobjectivestatements,ratherthanthosebasedupontheindividual'sownsubjectiveperceptionoflanguage.So,corpuslinguisticsshouldbeseenasasubsetoftheactivitywithinanempiricalapproachtolinguistics.

Charpter2

2.1.1

1.Articulatoryphoneticsdealswiththeidentificationandclassificationofindividualsounds.Itattemptstoprovideaframeworkofthenatureofspeechsoundsandhowtheyareproduced.Acousticphoneticsfocusesontheanalysisandmeasurementofsoundwaves.Itstudiesthephysicalcharacteristicsofspeechsoundsastheyaredeterminedandmeasuredbymachines,andattemptstodeducetheacousticbasisofspeechproductionandperception.

2.Thespeechchainconsistsofthreestages:

theproductionofthemessage,thetransmissionofthemessageandthereceptionofthemessage.AccordingtoBallandRahilly,thereareaseriesofactivitiesinthespeechchain.First,thereisphysiologicalactivityinthebrainofthespeaker.Thenthebrainsendsinstructionstoavarietyofmusclesofvocalorgans.Theresultisarangeofmusclecontractionsandphysicalmovementofstructuressuchastheribcage,thelarynx,thetongueandsoon.Inturn,thesemovementsgiverisetoanaerodynamicphaseofthespeechchain,wherebyairflowsthroughthevocaltract.Thisairflowinteractswithcontinuedmovementofstructuressuchasthevocalfolds,tongue