2012级英语语言学概论(ii) --- chapter 9,11 amp; 12期末复习题---2015-6-18.doc

12级语言学概论(II) Chapter 9,11 12 2014-2015学年下学期期末考试复习题 I. Briefly explain the following terms. (20%) 1. Ferdinand de Saussure 2. Textual function 3. The London School of Linguistics 4. Applied linguistics 5. Interlanguage 6. Universal grammar 7. Input Hypothesis 8. Communicative competence 9. Contrastive analysis 10. I-narrators 11. Third-person narrator 12. Stream of consciousness writing 13. Stylistics 14. Foregrounding 15. Speech and thought presentation 16. Synecdoche II. Fill in each of the following blanks with one proper word. 1. The structural approach to the analysis of language was started by the Swiss linguist ________ in the beginning of the twentieth century. 2. Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP) is a theory of linguistic analysis which describes how ___________ is distributed in sentences. 3. Systemic-Functional Grammar, unlike traditional grammar which takes sentence as the largest unit, takes _________ as the basic unit. 4. In Halliday’s Systemic Grammar, a system is a list of things between which it is possible to choose. So they are meanings, which the grammar can distinguish. The items in a system are called _________. 5. The principal representative if American descriptive linguistics is L. Bloomfield, whose book ___________ was once held as the model of scientific methodology. 6. The Prague School is best known and remembered for its contribution to phonology and the distinction between ________ and phonology. 7. Systemic-Functional Grammar takes the actual uses of language as the object if study, while Chomsky’s TG Grammar takes the ideal speaker’s linguistic _________ as the object of study. 8. Firth’s second important contribution to linguistics is his method of prosodic analysis, called __________, put forward in a paper presented at London Philological Society in 1948. 9. The type of language constructed by second or foreign language learners who are still in the process of learning a language is often referred to as __________. __________