2016年温州大学820英语语言学试题A.doc
2016 年硕士研究生招生考试试题(A 卷)科目代码及名称: 820 英语语言学 适用专业:英语语言文学 01、03 方向考生(请考生在答题纸上答题,在此试题纸上答题无效)I. Define the following terms. (50 points)1. I-narrator; 2. locutionary act; 3. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis; 4. reference; 5. relational opposites; 6. exocentric construction; 7. back-formation; 8. blending; 9. phonology; 10. competenceII. Answer the two given questions. (30 points)1. Do you agree with the view that no language is especially simple?2. How does language relate to culture?III. Analyses. (20 points)1. Write out the different meanings of the following two ambiguous constructions. (10 points)(1) The chicken is too hot to eat.(2) Visiting relatives can be boring. 2. Do the componential analysis on the lexical meanings of the given words below. (10 points)(1) raise; (2) wifeIV. Write a short essay in about 500 words on either of the two topics below. (50 points)1. In cognitive linguistics, metaphor is not a figure of speech merely, it is conceptual. In what sense is metaphor said to be conceptual?2. Give a comment on Noam Chomskys Innateness Hypothesis.第 1 页,共 1 页