
课程代码 455 课程名称 英语语言学
(共1页,共27题,答题时不必抄题,标明题目序号)
I .Define the following terms: 50%
1. broad and narrow transcription
2. complementary distribution
3. assimilation
4. allomorph
5. c-command
6. immediate constituent analysis
7. ideational function
8. hyponymy
9. linguistic determinism
10. conversational implicature
II .Answer the following questions: 50%
11. A story by Robert Louis Stevenson contains the sentence “As the night fell, the wind rose” Could this expressed “As the wind rose, the night fell?” If not, why? Does this indicate a degree non-arbitrariness about word order?
12. Describe in what ways these expressions are “ambiguous.”
a) A Chinese philosophy professor
b) Flying Kites can be great fun
c) The parents of Mary and John will attend the wedding.
13. What are the social factors that influence our language behavior in a social context?
14. Explain the tautologies: “Boys are boys, and war is war.” based on the Quantity Maxim.
15. Leech uses sense as a briefer term for his conceptual meaning. Give an example to illustrate it.
III. Name the author of the following literary works. (10%)
16. The Law of Life
17. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
18. A&P
19. I hear America Singing
20. In Another country
21. Of Marriage and Single Life
22. Pride and Prejudice
23. Great Expectations
24. The Importance of Being Earnest
25. The Trees
VI. Give Brief answers to each of the following questions. (20%)
26. What is the message of Annabel Lee?
27. What is motif?
28. What is the theme of Gulliver’s Travel?
29. In what way is the West Wind both a destroyer and preserver?
V Write you brief appreciation of the following poem. (20%)
The heart
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands
And ate for it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“1t is bitter-bitter,” he answered;
But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
