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语言学名词解释合集
英语语言学名词解释
Synchronic:
saidofanapproachthatstudieslanguageatatheoretical“point”intime.Diachronic:
saidofthestudyofdevelopmentoflanguageandlanguagesovertime.
Arbitrariness:
theabsenceofanyphysicalcorrespondencebetweenlinguisticsignalsandtheentitiestowhichtheyrefer.
Duality:
thestructuralorganizationoflanguageintotwoabstractlevels;meaningfulunitsandmeaninglesssegments.
Competence:
unconsciousknowledgeofthesystemofgrammaticalrulesinalanguage.Performance:
thelanguageactuallyusedbypeopleinspeakingorwriting.Langue:
thelanguagesystemsharedbya“speechcommunity”.
Parole:
theconcreteutterancesofspeaker.
Morpheme:
thesmallestunitoflanguageintermsoftherelationshipbetweenexpressionandcontent,aunitthatcannotbedividedintofurthersmallerunitswithoutdestroyingordrasticallyalteringthemeaning,whetheritislexicalorgrammatical.
Inflection:
isthemanifestationofgrammaticalrelationshipthroughtheadditionofinflectionalaffixessuchasnumber,person,finiteness,aspectandcasestowhichtheyareattached.
Root:
referstothebaseformofawordthatcannotbefurtheranalyzedwithoutlossofidentity.Stem:
isanymorphemeorcombinationsofmorphemestowhichaninflectionalaffixcanbeadded.
Acronym:
ismadeupfromthefirstlettersofthenameofanorganization,whichhasaheavilymodifiedheadword.
Syntax:
thestudyoftheinterrelationshipsbetweenelementsinsentencestructure.
Subordination:
theprocessorresultoflinkinglinguisticunitssothattheyhavedifferentsyntacticstatus,onebeingdependentupontheother,andusuallyaconstituentoftheother.Denotation:
denotationinvolvestherelationshipbetweenalinguisticunitandthenon-linguisticentitiestowhichitrefers.
Connotation:
propertiesoftheentityaworddenote.
Synonymy:
synonymyisthetechnicalnameforoneofthesenserelationsbetweenlinguisticunits,namelythesamenessrelation.
Hyponymy:
thetechnicalnameforinclusivenesssenserelation,isamatterofclassmembership.
Entailment:
Thisalogicrelationshipbetweentwosentencesinwhichthetruthofthesecondnecessarilyfollowsfromthetruthofthefirst,whilethefalsityofthefirstfollowsfromthefalsityofthesecond.Trafficlightdoesnothaveduality.Obviously,itisnotadouble-levelsystem.Thereisonlyone-to-onerelationshipbetweensignsandmeaningbutthemeaningunitscannotbedividedintosmallermeaninglesselementsfurther.Sothetrafficlightonlyhastheprimarylevelandlacksthesecondarylevellikeanimals’call.
CriticalPeriodHypothesisThecriticalperiodforlanguageacquisition语言获得的关键期EricLennebergwasamajorproponent.
Thecriticalperiodhypothesis关键期假设Itreferstoaperiodinone’slifeextendingfromaboutagetwotopuberty,duringwhichthehumanbrainismostreadytoacquireaparticularlanguageandlanguagelearningcanproceedeasily,swiftly,andwithoutexplicitinstruction.Itcoincideswiththeprocessofbrainlateralization.Priortothisperiod,bothhemispheresareinvolvedtosomeextentinlanguageandonecantakeoveriftheotherisdamaged.「语言学习关键期」(thecriticalperiod)的争议。
认同「愈早开始学习外语,成效愈好」的人,在学理上常引用「语言学习关键期假说」(TheCriticalPeriodHypothesis)来论证此项观点。
1959年,神经生理学家Penfield和Roberts从大脑可塑性的角度,提出十岁以前,是学习语言的最佳年龄。
哈佛大学心理学教授DavidLenneberg(1967)则从医学临床经验,以「神经生理学的观点」有系统地解释「语言学习关键期」,他认为人的大脑从二岁开始边化(lateralization)[4],在边化完成前,人是用全脑来学习语言,约在青春期左右,大脑会完成边化,从此,语言学习主要由左边大脑负责。
人脑「边化」后的语言学习不如全脑学习时期来得好。
因此,语言学习最好在大脑完成边化之前,这也就是所谓的「语言学习关键期」。
除了Lenneberg外,Bickerton(1981)和Coppieters(1987)的研究结果也倾向支持「语言学习关键期」的存在。
Lenneberg提出「语言学习关键期假说」主要用来解释第一语(母语)的学习。
而ThomasScovel(1969)更将此假说的解释范围扩及第一语以外的语言学习。
acculturationn.文化传入,文化适应Acculturationistheobtainmentofculturebyanindividualoragroupofpeople.Thetermoriginallyappliedonlytotheprocessconcerningaforeignculture,fromtheacculturingoracculturedrecipientpointofview,havingthisforeigncultureaddedandmixedwiththatofhisorheralreadyexistingoneacquiredsincebirth.However,thetermnowhascometomean,inaddition,thechild-acquisitionacculturationofnativeculturesinceinfancyinthehousehold.Achild'slearningofitsfirstcultureisalsocalledenculturationormerelysocialization.Thetraditionaldefinitionsometimesdifferentiatebetweenacculturationbyanindividual(transculturation)andthatbyagroup,usuallyverylarge(acculturation).Theoldandthenewadditionaldefinitionshaveaboundarythatblursinmodernmulticulturalsocieties,whereachildofanimmigrantfamilymightbeencouragedtoacculturateboththedominantalsowellastheancestralculture,eitherofwhichmaybeconsidered"foreign",butinfact,theyarebothintegralpartsofthechild'sdevelopment.
Productivityreferstotheabilitytotheabilitytoconstructandunderstandanindefinitelylargenumberofsentencesinone‘snativelanguage,includingthosethathasneverheardbefore,butthatareappropriatetothespeakingsituation.Noonehaseversaidorheard―Ared-eyedelephantisdancingonthesmallhotelbedwithanAfricangibbon‖,buthecansayitwhennecessary,andhecanunderstanditinrightregister.Differentfromartisticcreativity,though,productivitynevergoesoutsidethelanguage,thusalsocalled―rule-boundcreativity‖(byN.Chomsky).6.Whatisdisplacement?
“Displacement‖,asoneofthedesignfeaturesofthehumanlanguage,referstothefactthatonecantalkaboutthingsthatarenotpresent,aseasilyashedoesthingspresent.Inotherwords,onecanrefertorealandunrealthings,thingsofthepast,ofthepresent,ofthefuture.Languageitselfcanbetalkedabouttoo.Whenaman,forexample,iscryingtoawoman,aboutsomething,itmightbesomethingthathadoccurred,orsomethingthatisoccurring,orsomethingthatistooccur.Whenadogisbarking,however,youcandecideitisbarkingforsomethingoratsomeonethatexistsnowandthere.Itcouldn‘tbebow-wowingsorrowfullyforabonetobelost.Thebee‘ssystem,nonetheless,hasasmallshareof―displacement‖,butitisanunspeakabletinyshare.7.Whatisculturaltransmission?
Thismeansthatlanguageisnotbiologicallytransmittedfromgenerationtogeneration,butthatthedetailsofthelinguisticsystemmustbelearnedanewbyeachspeaker.Itistruethatthecapacityforlanguageinhumanbeings(N.Chomskycalledit―languageacquisitiondevice‖,orLAD)hasageneticbasis,buttheparticularlanguageapersonlearnstospeakisaculturaloneotherthanageneticonelikethedog‘sbarkingsystem.Ifahumanbeingisbroughtupinisolationhecannotacquirelanguage.TheWolfChildrearedbythepackofwolvesturnedouttospeakthewolf‘sroaring―tongue‖whenhewassaved.Helearnedthereafter,withnosmalldifficulty,theABCofacertainhumanlanguage.8.Whatisinterchangeability?
Interchangeabilitymeansthatanyhumanbeingcanbebothaproducerandareceiverofmessages.Thoughsomepeoplesuggestthatthereissexdifferentiationintheactuallanguageuse,inotherwords,menandwomenmaysaydifferentthings,yetinprinciplethereisnosound,orwordorsentencethatamancanutterandawomancannot,orviceversa.Ontheotherhand,apersoncanbethespeakerwhiletheotherpersonisthelistenerandastheturnmovesontothelistener,hecanbethespeakerandthefirstspeakeristolisten.Itisturn-takingthatmakessocialcommunicationpossibleandacceptable.Somemalebirds,however,uttersomecallswhichfemalesdonot(orcannot).Whenadogbarks,alltheneighboringdogsbark.Thenpeoplearoundcanhardlytellwhichdog(dogs)is(are)―speaking‖andwhichlistening.9.Whydolinguistssaylanguageishumanspecific?
Firstofall,humanlanguagehassix―designfeatures‖whichanimalcommunicationsystemsdonothave,atleastnotinthetruesenseofthem.Secondly,linguistshavedonealottryingtoteachanimalssuchaschimpanzeestospeakahumanlanguagebuthaveachievednothinginspiring.Washoe,afemalechimpanzee,wasbroughtuplikeahumanchildbyBeatniceandAlanGardner.Shewastaught―AmericansignLanguage‖,andlearnedalittlethatmadetheteachershappybut
didmotmakethelinguisticscirclehappy,forfewbelievedinteachingchimpanzees.Thirdly,ahumanchildrearedamonganimalscannotspeakahumanlanguage,notevenwhenheistakenbackandtaughttodoso.10.Whatfunctionsdoeslanguagehave?
Languagehasatleastsevenfunctions:
phatic,directive,Informative,interrogative,expressive,evocativeandperformative.AccordingtoWangGang(1988,p.11),languagehasthreemainfunctions:
atoolofcommunication,atoolwherebypeoplelearnabouttheworld,andatoolbywhichpeoplelearnabouttheworld,andatoolbywhichpeoplecreateart.M.A.K.Halliday,representativeoftheLondonschool,recognizesthree―Macro-Functions‖:
ideational,interpersonalandtextual.11.Whatisthephaticfunction?
The―phaticfunction‖referstolanguagebeingusedforsettingupacertainatmosphereormaintainingsocialcontacts(ratherthanforexchanginginformationorideas).Greetings,farewells,andcommentsontheweatherinEnglishandonclothinginChineseallservethisfunction.Muchofthephaticlanguage(e.g.―Howareyou?
‖―Fine,thanks.‖)isinsincereiftakenliterally,butitisimportant.Ifyoudon'tsay―Hello‖toafriendyoumeet,orifyoudon‘tanswerhis―Hi‖,youruinyourfriendship.12.Whatisthedirectivefunction?
The―directivefunction‖meansthatlanguagemaybeusedtogetthehearertodosomething.Mostimperativesentencesperformthisfunction,e.g.,―Tellmetheresultwhenyoufinish.‖Othersyntacticstructuresorsentencesofothersortscan,accordingtoJ.A