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语言学名词解释汇总

语言学名词解释汇总

语言学名词解释汇总一、名词解释。

1、语言学:①~是以语言作为专门研究对象的一门独立的科学;②从方法上分为历史…、比较…、历史比较…、描写…;从研究对象上可分为个别…和普通…;③19世纪初的历史比较学标志着语言学的诞生。

2、语文学:…是为给古代文化遗产——政治历史文学等方面的经典书面著作作注释,目的是使人们可以读懂古书的一门尚未独立的学科。

3、小学:指我国古代传统的文学学、音韵学和训诂学,虽然我国古代没有语文学,但一般认为…属于语文学的范围。

4、训诂:是解释字义和研究它的演变的一门学科,其目的是从词义方面来解释古书的文字。

5、专语语言学:以某种具体的语言为研究对象的语言学称为…。

*共时语言学和历时语言学:根据语言体系的稳固和变化,把语言研究分为共时的和历时的研究,共时…研究的是在特定时期内相对稳固的语言体系,如对现代汉语的研究;历时…研究的则是描写语言体系的历史演变,如对汉语发展史的研究。

*普通语言学:是对人类语言从理论方面进行研究的一门学科,它探索各种语言所共有的规律以及各种语言在结构上的共同特点。

*历史语言学:用历史的方法来考察语言的历史演变、研究它的变化规律的语言学称为…。

*比较语言学:用比较的方法,对不同的语言进行对比研究,找出它们相异之处或共同规律的叫…。

6、表层结构和深层结构:表层结构和深层结构相对,表层结构赋予句子以一定的语音形式,即通过语音形式所表达出来的那种结构,表层结构是由深层结构转换而显现的;深层结构是赋予句子以一定的语义解释的那种结构。

7、语言:是从言语中概括出来的音义结合的词汇系统和语法系统。

*言语:是说的行为和结果。

*说话:是人们运用语言工具表达思想所产生的结果。

8、语言层级性(二层性):语言是一种分层装置。

语言结构要素的各个单位,在语言结构中,并非处在同一个平面上,而是分为不同的层和级。

语言可分为二层——底层是一套音位和由音位组成的音节;上层分为三级:第一级是词素,是构词材料';第二级是词,是造句材料;第三级是句子,是交际的基本单位。

戴炜栋语言学名词解释(共2篇)

戴炜栋语言学名词解释(共2篇)

戴炜栋语言学名词解释(共2篇)戴炜栋语言学名词解释1、能指:语言符号的物质实体,能够指称某种意义的成分。

2、结构主义语言学:由索绪尔创立的语言学,它主要研究语言系统本身的内在规律。

我国语言学界常说的“结构语义语言学”“结构主义语法”等名词往往指美国结构主义描写语言学,它只是当代接结构主义语言学的一个流派,并不等于受索绪尔影响的整个结构主义语言学。

3、音位变体:音位是从社会功能角度划分出来的特定语言或方言中具有区别意义作用的最小语音单位,同属于一个音位的不同因素叫做“音位变体”,音位变体又可分为条件变体和自由变体。

例如汉语普通话/a/的音位变体【a】等。

4、元辅音分析法:就是一元辅音为基本分析单位的一种音节结构分析法,将音节结构分为V、C-V、V-C、C-V-C四种不同的结构类型。

5、定位语素:指在最小的合称结构(词结构或词组结构)中的位置总是固定的,或者总前置,或者总后置的语素。

例如现代汉语的“第”总是前置,“者”总是后置,它们都是定位语素。

6、变性成词:指语素转变词性而成为另一类词。

即某些成语素在语法功能上本来只是单一性的,但在形成词的时候,却同时形成了两种词性的词。

7、外围语法:又叫大语法,主要研究与语法有关的词语知识、语义知识和语音知识。

8、向心词组:指整个词组的功能相当于词组的中心语功能的词组,包括偏正结构的词组、动宾词组、动补词组和联合词组。

9、语义场:在词义上具有类属关系的词语集合在一起所形成的一个聚合体。

10、变元:变元又称“题元”“项”等,是与谓词有直接语义关系并受谓词支配的语义成分。

变元一般都是名词性的词语,在句子中经常充当主语或宾语。

如“他给我一支笔”中“我”和“一支笔”就是谓词“给”的变元;“小李走了”中“小李”就是谓词“走”的变元。

11、理性意义:也叫逻辑意义或称意义,是对主客观世界的认识。

在词语平面上,它是与概念相联系的那部分意义;在句子平面上,它是与判断和推理相联系的那部分意义。

语言学名词解释

语言学名词解释

Chapter 1: Introduction1. Linguistics: Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.8. langue: Lange refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.9. parole :Parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use.10. competence : The ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language.11.performance : The actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.12. language : Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.13.design features : Design features refer to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication.14. arbitrariness: Arbitrariness refers to no logical connection between meaning and sound.15. productivity: Users can understand and produce sentences that they have never heard before.16. duality: Language consists of two sets of structure, with lower lever of sound, which is meaningless, and the higher lever of meaning.17. displacement: Language can be used to refer to the contexts removed from the immediate situation of the speaker no matter how far away from the topic of conversation in time or space.18. cultural transmission: Language is culturally transmitted. It is taught and learned from one generation to the next, rather than by instinct.Chapter 2: Phonology1. phonic medium : The meaningful speech sound in human communication.2. phonetics : The study of phonic medium of language and it is concerned with all sounds in t he world’s languages.3. articulatory phonetics : It studies sounds from the speaker’s point of view, i.e. howa speaker uses his speech organs to articulate the sounds.4. auditory phonetics: The studies sounds from the hearer’s point of view, i.e. how the sounds are perceived by the hearer.5. acoustic phonetics: It studies the way sounds travel by looking at the sound waves, the physical means by which sounds are transmitted through the air from one person to another.6. voicing: the way that sounds are produced with the vibration of the vocal cords.7. voiceless: the way that sounds are produced with no vibration of the vocal cords.8. broad transcription: The use of letter symbols only to show the sounds or sounds sequences in written form.9. narrow transcription: The use of letter symbol, together with the diacritics to show sounds in written form.10. diacritics: The symbols used to show detailed articulatory features of sounds.11. IPA: short for International Phonetic Alphabets, a system of symbols consists of letters and diacritics, used to represent the pronunciation of words in any language. 12. aspiration: A little puff of air that sometimes follows a speech sound.13. manner of articulation : The manner in which obstruction is created.14. place of articulation : The place where obstruction is created.15. consonant: a speech sound in which the air stream is obstructed in one way or another.16. vowel : a speech sound in which the air stream from the lung meets with no obstruction.17. monophthong : the individual vowel.18. diphthong : The vowel which consists of two individual vowels, and functions as a single one.19. phone : The speech sound we use when speaking a language.20. phoneme : The smallest unit of sound in a language which can distinguish two sounds.21. allophone : any different forms of the same phoneme in different phonetic environments.22. phonology : The description of sound systems of particular languages and how sounds function to distinguish meaning.23. phonemic contrast : two similar sounds occur in the same environment and distinguish meaning.24. complementary distribution : allophones of the same phoneme and they don’t distinguish meaning but complement each other in distribution.25. minimal pair: two different forms are identical in every way except one sound and occurs in the same position. The two sounds are said to form a minimal pair.26. sequential rules: The rules to govern the combination of sounds in a particular language.27. assimilation rule: The rule assimilates one sound to another by copying a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar.28. deletion rule: The rule that a sound is to be deleted although it is orthographically represented.29. suprasegmental features: The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments----syllable, word, sentence.30. tone: Tones are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords.31. intonation: When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation.Chapter 3: Morphology1. morphology: A branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words and rules for word formation.2. open class: A group of words, which contains an unlimited number of items, and new words can be added to it.3. closed class: A relatively few words, including conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns, and new words are not usually added to them.4. morpheme: The smallest unit of meaning of a language. It can not be divided without altering or destroying its meaning.5. affix: a letter or a group of letter, which is added to a word, and which changes themeaning or function of the word, including prefix, infix and suffix.6. suffix: The affix, which is added to the end of a word, and which usually changes the part of speech of a word.7. prefix: The affix, which is added to the beginning of a word, and which usually changes the meaning of a word to its opposite.8. bound morpheme: Morpheme that can not be used alone, and it must be combined wit others. E.g. –ment.9. free morpheme: a morpheme that can stand alone as a word.10. derivational morpheme: Bound morpheme, which can be added to a stem to forma new word.11. inflectional morpheme: A kind of morpheme, which are used to make grammatical categories, such as number, tense and case.12. morphological rules: The ways words are formed. These rules determine how morphemes combine to form words.13. compound words: A combination of two or more words, which functions as a single words14. inflection: the morphological process which adjusts words by grammatical modification, e.g. in The rains came, rain is inflected for plurality and came for past tense.Chapter 4: Syntax1. syntax: A branch of linguistics that studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.2. category: It refers to a group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language such as a sentence, a noun phrase or a verb.6. phrase: syntactic units that are built around a certain word category are called phrase, the category of which is determined by the word category around which the phrase is built.8. head: The word round which phrase is formed is termed head.9. specifier: The words on the left side of the heads are said to function as specifiers.10. complement: The words on the right side of the heads are complements.11. phrase structure rule: The special type of grammatical mechanism that regulates the arrangement of elements that make up a phrase is called a phrase structure rule. 14. coordination: Some structures are formed by joining two or more elements of the same type with the help of a conjunction such as and or or. Such phenomenon is known as coordination.15. subcategorization: The information about a word’s complement is included in the head and termed suncategorization.16. complementizer: Words which introduce the sentence complement are termed complementizer.17. complement clause: The sentence introduced by the complementizer is called a complement clause.18. complement phrase: the elements, including a complementizer and a complement clause is called a complement phrase.19. matrix clause: the contrusction in which the complement phrase is embedded iscalled matrix clause.20. modifier: the element, which specifies optionally expressible properties of heads is called modifier.21. transformation : a special type of rule that can move an element from one position to another22. inversion : the process of transformation that moves the auxiliary from the Infl position to a position to the left of the subject, is called inversion.23. Do insertion : In the process of forming yes-no question that does not contain an overt Infl, interrogative do is inserted into an empty Infl positon to make transformation work.24. deep structure : A level of abstract syntactic representation formed by the XP rule.25. surface structure : A level of syntactic representation after applying the necessary syntactic movement, i.e., transformation, to the deep structure. (05)26. universal grammar: the innateness principles and properties that pertain to the grammars of all human languages.Chapter 5: Semantics1. semantics: Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning.3. sense : Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. It is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form. It is abstract and de-contexturalized. It is the aspect of meaning dictionary compilers are interested in.4. reference : Reference means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world. It deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.5. synonymy: Synonymy refers to the sameness or close similarity of meaning. Words that are close in meaning are called synonyms.6. dialectal synonyms: synonyms that are used in different regional dialects.7. stylistic synonyms: synonyms that differ in style, or degree of formality.8. collocational synonyms: Synonyms that differ in their colllocation, i.e., in the words they go together with.9. polysemy : The same word has more than one meaning.10. homonymy: Homonymy refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form, i.e., different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.11. homophones: When two words are identical in sound, they are homophones.12. homographs: When two words are identical in spelling, they are homographs.13. complete homonymy: When two words are identical in both sound and spelling, they are complete homonyms.14. hyponymy: Hyponymy refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word.15. superordinate: The word which is more general in meaning is called the superordinate.16. co-hyponyms: Hyponyms of the same superordinate are co-hyponyms.17. antonymy: The term antonymy is used for oppositeness of meaning.20. relational opposites: Pairs if words that exhibit the reversal of a relationshipbetween the two items are called relational opposites. For example, husband---wife, father---son, buy---sell, let---rent, above---below.21. entailment: the relationship between two sentences where the truth of one is inferred from the truth of the other. E.g. Cindy killed the dog entails the dog is dead.22. presupposition: What a speaker or writer assumes that the receiver of the massage already knows. e.g. Some tea has already been taken is a presupposition of Take some more tea.Chapter 6: Pragmatics1. pragmatics: The study of how speakers uses sentences to effect successful communication.2. context: The general knowledge shared by the speakers and the hearers.3. sentence meaning: The meaning of a self-contained unit with abstract and de-contextualized features.4. utterance meaning: The meaning that a speaker conveys by using a particular utterance in a particular context.5. utterance: expression produced in a particular context with a particular intention.6. Speech Act Theory: The theory proposed by John Austin and deepened by Searle, which believes that we are performing actions when we are speaking.7. constatives: Constatives are statements that either state or describe, and are thus verifiable.8. performatives: Pe rformatives are sentences that don’t state a fact or describe a state, and are not verifiable.9. locutionary act: The act of conveying literal meaning by virtue of syntax, lexicon and phonology.10. illocutionary act: The act of expressing the speaker’s i ntention and performed in saying something.11. perlocutionary act: The act resulting from saying something and the consequence or the change brought about by the utterance.12. representatives: Stating or describing, saying what the speaker believes to be true.13. directives: Trying to get the hearer to do something.17. cooperative Principle: The principle that the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate in making conversation, otherwise, it would be impossible to carry on the talk.18. conversational implicature: The use of conversational maxims to imply meaning during conversation.Chapter 7: Language Change8. acronyms: Acronyms are words derived from the initials of several words.9. protolanguage: The original form of a language family, which has ceased to exist.10. Language family: A group of historically related languages that have developed from a common ancestral language.Chapter 8: Language And Society1. sociolinguistics: The subfield of linguistics that study language variation and language use in social contexts.2. speech community: A group of people who form a community and share at leastone speech variety as well as similar linguistic norms.3. speech varieties: It refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker or a group of speakers.4. regional dialect: A variety of language used by people living in the same geographical region.5. sociolect: A variety of language used by people, who belong to a particular social class.6. registers : The type of language which is selected as appropriate to the type of situation.7. idiolect : A person’s dialect of an individual speaker that combines elements, regarding regional, social, gender and age variations.8. linguistic reportoire : The totality of linguistic varieties possessed by an individual constitutes his linguistic repertoire.9. register theory : A theory proposed by American linguist Halliday, who believed that three social variables determine the register, namely, field of discourse, tenor of discourse and mode of discourse.10. field of discourse : the purpose and subject matter of the communicative behavior..11. tenor of discourse: It refers to the role of relationship in the situation in question: who the participants in the communication groups are and in what relationship they stand to each other.12. mode of discourse: It refers to the means of communication and it is concerned with how communication is carried out.13. standard dialect: A superposed variety of language of a community or nation, usually based on the speech and writing of educated native speakers of the language.14. formality: It refers to the degree of formality in different occasions and reflects the relationship and conversations. According to Martin Joos, there are five stages of formality, namely, intimate, casual, consultative, formal and frozen.15. Pidgin: A blending of several language, developing as a contact language of people, who speak different languages, try to communication with one another on a regular basis.16. Creole : A pidgin language which has become the native language of a group of speakers used in this daily life.17. bilingualism : The use of two different languages side by side with each having a different role to play, and language switching occurs when the situation changes.(07C) 18. diaglossia : A sociolinguistic situation in which two different varieties of language co-exist in a speech community, each having a definite role to play.19. Lingua Franca : A variety of language that serves as a medium of communication among groups of people, who speak different native languages or dialects20. code-switching: the movement back and forth between two languages or dialects within the same sentence or discourse.Chapter 10: Language Acquisition1. language acqui sition: It refers to the child’s acquisition of his mother tongue, i.e. how the child comes to understand and speak the language of his community.2. language acquisition device (LAD): A hypothetical innate mechanism every normalhuman child is believed to be born with, which allow them to acquire language.3. Universal Grammar: A theory which claims to account for the grammatical competence of every adult no matter what language he or she speaks.4. motherese: A special speech to children used by adults, which is characterized with slow rate of speed, high pitch, rich intonation, shorter and simpler sentence structures etc.----又叫child directed speech,caretaker talk.5. Critical Period Hypothesis: The hypothesis that the time span between early childhood and puberty is the critical period for language acquisition, during which children can acquire language without formal instruction successfully and effortlessly.6. under-extension: Use a word with less than its usual range of denotation.7. over-extension: Extension of the meaning of a word beyond its usual domain of application by young children.8. telegraphic speech: Childre n’s early multiword speech that contains content words and lacks function words and inflectional morphemes.9. content word: Words referring to things, quality, state or action, which have lexical meaning used alone.10. function word: Words with little meaning on their own but show grammatical relationships in and between sentences.11. taboo: Words known to speakers but avoided in some contexts of speech for reasons of religion, politeness etc.12. atypical development: Some acquisition of language may be delayed but follow the same rules of language development due to trauma or injury.Chapter 11 : Second Language Acquisition1. second language acquisition: It refers to the systematic study of how one person acquires a second language subsequent to his native language.2. target language: The language to be acquired by the second language learner.3. second language: A second language is a language which is not a native language ina country but which is widely used as a medium of communication and which is usually used alongside another language or languages.4. foreign language: A foreign language is a language which is taught as a school subject but which is not used as a medium of instruction in schools nor as a language of communication within a country.5. interlanguage: A type of language produced by second and foreign language learners, who are in the process of learning a language, and this type of language usually contains wrong expressions.6. fossilization: In second or foreign language learning, there is a process which sometimes occurs in which incorrect linguistic features become a permanent part of the way a person speaks or writes a language.14. overgeneralization: The use of previously available strategies in new situations, in which they are unacceptable.15. cross-association: some words are similar in meaning as well as spelling and pronunciation. This internal interference is called cross-association.16. error: the production of incorrect forms in speech or writing by a non-native speaker of a second language, due to his incomplete knowledge of the rules of thattarget language.17. mistake: mistakes, defined as either intentionally or unintentionally deviant forms and self-corrigible, suggest failure in performance.18. input: language which a learner hears or receives and from which he or she can learn.19. intake: the input which is actually helpful for the learner.20. Input Hypothesis: A hypothesis proposed by Krashen , which states that in second language learning, it’s necessary f or the learner to understand input language which contains linguistic items that are slightly beyond the learner’s present linguistic competence. Eventually the ability to produce language is said to emerge naturally without being taught directly.21. acquisition: Acquisition is a process similar to the way children acquire their first language. It is a subconscious process without minute learning of grammatical rules. Learners are hardly aware of their learning but they are using language to communicate. It is also called implicit learning, informal learning or natural learning.23. comprehensible input: Input language which contains linguistic items that are slightly beyond the learner’s pre sent linguistic competence.24. language aptitude: the natural ability to learn a language, not including intelligence, motivation, interest, etc.25. motivation: motivation is defined as the learner’s attitudes and affective state or learning drive.26. instrumental motivation: the motivation that people learn a foreign language for instrumental goals such as passing exams, or furthering a career etc.27. integrative motivation: the drive that people learn a foreign language because of the wish to identify with the target culture.28. resultative motivation: the drive that learners learn a second language for external purposes.29. intrinsic motivation: the drive that learners learn the second language for enjoyment or pleasure from learning.Chapter 12 : Language And Brain1. neurolinguistics: It is the study of relationship between brain and language. It includes research into how the structure of the brain influences language learning, how and in which parts of the brain language is stored, and how damage to the brain affects the ability to use language.2. psycholinguistics: the study of language processing. It is concerned with the processes of language acqisition, comprehension and production.7. aphasia: It refers to a number of acquired language disorders due to the cerebral lesions caused by a tumor, an accident and so on.13. spoonerism: a slip of tongue in which the position of sounds, syllables, or words is reversed, for example, Let’s have chish and fips instend of Let’s have fish and chips.14. priming: the process that before the participants make a decision whether the string of letters is a word or not, they are presented with an activated word.15. frequency effect: Subjects take less time to make judgement on frequently used words than to judge less commonly used words . This phenomenon is calledfrequency effect.16. lexical decision: an experiment that let participants judge whether a string of letter is a word or not at a certain time.18. priming effect: Since the mental representation is activated through the prime, when the target is presented, response time is shorter that it otherwise would have been. This is called the priming effect.。

普通语言学名词解释

普通语言学名词解释

普通语言学名词解释
普通语言学是一门研究语言的学科,它涉及语言的结构、功能和演化等方面。

以下是一些与普通语言学相关的重要术语的解释:
1. 语言:人类沟通和表达思想的系统,通过声音、符号或手势传达信息。

2. 语音:语言中有关音的方面的研究,如语音的产生、感知和分类等。

3. 语法:语言中句子和词汇的组织方式,包括词法、句法和语义等。

4. 语义:研究语言中的意义和概念的学科,涉及词义、句义和篇章意义等。

5. 语用学:关注语言使用情境和交际意图的学科,研究语言在实际交流中的功能和影响。

6. 语境:指语言使用中的环境和背景,包括物理环境和社会文化因素等。

7. 方言:同一语言在不同地区或社群中存在的变体,通常包含词汇、发音和语法等方面的差异。

8. 语族:具有共同历史和语言特点的语言群体,比如印欧语系和汉藏语系等。

9. 句子:语言中表达完整意思的一系列词或短语的组合。

10. 词汇:语言中的基本单位,可以代表具体事物、抽象概念或动作等。

11. 词法:研究词汇构成和词形变化等的学科,包括词根、词缀和派生等。

12. 句法:语法中关于句子结构和组成成分之间关系的研究,包括主语、谓语和宾语等。

13. 语言演化:语言在历史进程中的变化和发展,包括语音演化、词汇变化和语法变化等。

14. 语言习得:人类通过接触和经验逐渐学习掌握语言的过程。

15. 第二语言习得:学习其他语言的过程,通常指非母语的学习。

这些术语是普通语言学研究中常用的概念,有助于我们理解和探索语言的本质和使用。

语言学名词解释

语言学名词解释

Define the following terms:1. Linguistics: Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.2. Phonology: The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology.3. Syntax: The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax. .4. Pragmatics: The study of meaning in context of use is called pragmatics.5. Psycholinguistics: The study of language with reference to the workings of mind is called psycholinguistics.6. Language: Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.7. Phonetics: The study of sounds which are used in linguistic communication is called phonetics.8. Morphology: The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words is called morphology.9. Semantics: The study of meaning in language is called semantics.10. Sociolinguistics: The study of language with reference to society is called sociolinguistics.11. Applied linguistics: In a narrow sense, applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning, especially the teaching of foreign and second languages. In a broad sense, it refers to the application of linguistic findings to the solution of practical problems such as the recovery of speech ability.12. Arbitrariness: It is one of the design features of language. It means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds13. Productivity: Language is productive or creative in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its users.14. Displacement: Displacement means that language can be used to refer to things which are present or not present, real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future, or in far-away places. In other words, language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker15. Duality: The duality nature of language means that language is a system, which consists of two sets of structure, or two levels, one of sounds and the other of meanings.16. Design features: Design features refer to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication17. Competence: Chomsky defines competence as the ideal user's knowledge of the rules of his language,18. Performance: performance is the actual realization of the knowledge of the rules in linguistic communication.19. Langue : Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community; Langue is the set of conventions and rules which language users all have to follow; Langue is relatively stable, it does not change frequently20. Parole: Parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use; parole is the concrete use of the conventions and the application of the rules; parole varies from person to person, and from situation to situation.45. phonology: Phonology studies the system of sounds of a particular language; it aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.21. phoneme: The basic unit in phonology is called phoneme; it is a unit of distinctive value. But itis an abstract unit. To be exact, a phoneme is not a sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.22. allophone: The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the allophones of that phoneme.23. international phonetic alphabet: It is a standardized and internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription.24. intonation: When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation.25. phonetics: Phonetics is defined as the study of the phonic medium of language; it is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world' s languages26. auditory phonetics: It studies the speech sounds from the hearer's point of view. It studies how the sounds are perceived by the hear-er.27. acoustic phonetics: It studies the speech sounds by looking at the sound waves. It studies the physical means by which speech sounds are transmitted through the air from one person to another.528. phone : Phones can be simply defined as the speech sounds we use when speaking a language. A phone is a phonetic unit or segment. It does not necessarily distinguish meaning. 529. phonemic contrast: Phonemic contrast refers to the relation between two phonemes. If two phonemes can occur in the same environment and distinguish meaning, they are in phonemic contrast.30. tone: Tones are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords.31. minimal pair: When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two words are said to form a minimal pair.33. Morphology: Morphology is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.34. inflectional morphology: The inflectional morphology studies the inflections35. derivational morphology: Derivational morphology is the study of word- formation.36. Morpheme: It is the smallest meaningful unit of language.37. free morpheme: Free morphemes are the morphemes which are independent units of meaning and can be used freely all by themselves or in combination with other morphemes. 38. Bound morpheme: Bound morphemes are the morphemes which cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.39. Root: A root is often seen as part of a word; it can never stand by itself although it bears clear, definite meaning; it must be combined with another root or an affix to form a word.40. Affix: Affixes are of two types: inflectional and derivational. Inflectional affixes manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories, while derivational affixes are added to an existing form to create a word.41. Prefix: Prefixes occur at the beginning of a word . Prefixes modify the meaning of the stem, but they usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.42. Suffix: Suffixes are added to the end of the stems; they modify the meaning of the original word and in many cases change its part of speech.43. Derivation: Derivation is a process of word formation by which derivative affixes are added to an existing form to create a word.44. Compounding: Compounding can be viewed as the combination of two or sometimes more than two words to create new words.45. syntax: Syntax is a subfield of linguistics. It studies the sentence structure of language. It consists of a set of abstract rules that allow words to be combined with other words to form grammatical sentences.46. Sentence: A sentence is a structurally independent unit that usually comprises a number of words to form a complete statement, question or command. Normally, a sentence consists of at least a subject and a predicate which contains a finite verb or a verb phrase.47. coordinate sentence: A coordinate sentence contains two clauses joined by a linking word called coordinating conjunction, such as "and", "but", "or".48. syntactic categories: Apart from sentences and clauses, a syntactic category usually refers toa word (called a lexical category) or a phrase ( called a phrasal category) that performs a particular grammatical function.49. grammatical relations: The structural and logical functional relations of constituents are called grammatical relations. The grammatical relations of a sentence concern the way each noun phrase in the sentence relates to the verb. In many cases, grammatical relations in fact refer to who does what to whom .50. linguistic competence: Universally found in the grammars of all human languages, syntactic rules comprise the system of internalized linguistic knowledge of a language speaker known as linguistic competence.51. Transformational rules: Transformational rules are the rules that transform one sentence type into another type.52. D-structure: D- structure is the level of syntactic representation that exists before movement takes place. Phrase structure rules, with the insertion of the lexicon, generate sentences at the level of D-structure.53. Semantics: Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning in language.54. Sense: Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. It is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form; it is abstract and decontextualised.55. Reference: Reference means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world; it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience56. Synonymy :Synonymy refers to the sameness or close similarity of meaning.57. Polysemy :Polysemy refers to the fact that the same one word may have more than one meaning.58. Homonymy : Homonymy refers to the phenon that words having different meanings have the same form, i.e. , different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.59. homophones :When two words are identical in sound, they are called homophones60. homographs :When two words are identical in spelling, they are homographs.61. complete homonyms.:When two words are identical in both sound and spelling, they are called complete homonyms.62.Hyponymy :Hyponymy refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word.63. Antonymy :Antonymy refers to the relation of oppositeness of meaning.64. Componential analysis : Componential analysis is a way to analyze word meaning. It was pro-posed by structural semanticists. The approach is based on the belief that the meaning of a -word can be divided into meaning components, which are called semantic features.65.The grammatical meaning : The grammatical meaning of a sentence refers to its grammaticality, i.e. , its grammatical well-formedness . The grammaticality of a sentence is governed by the grammatical rules of the language.66. predication :The predication is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.67. argument : An argument is a logical participant in a predication. It is generally identical with the nominal element (s) in a sentence.68. predicate : A predicate is something that is said about an argument or it states the logical relation linking the arguments in a sentence.69. two-place predication : A two-place predication is one which contains two arguments.37. pragmatics: Pragmatics can be defined as the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication.38. Context: Generally speaking, it consists of the knowledge that is shared by the speak-er and the hearer. The shared knowledge is of two types: the knowledge of the language they use, and the knowledge about the world, including the general knowledge about the world and the specific knowledge about the situation in which linguistic communication is taking place. 39. utterance meaning: the meaning of an utterance is concrete, and context-dependent. Utterance is based on sentence meaning; it is realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence ina real situation of communication, or simply in a context.40. sentence meaning: The meaning of a sentence is of-ten considered as the abstract, intrinsic property of the sentence itself in terms of a predication.41. Constative: Constatives were statements that either state or describe, and were verifiable ;42. Performative: performatives, on the other hand, were sentences that did not state a fact or describe a state, and were not verifiable. Their function is to perform a particular speech act. 43. locutionary act: A locutionary act is the act of uttering words, phrases, clauses. It is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology.44. illocutionary act: An illocutionary act is the act of expressing the speaker's intention; it is the act performed in saying something.45. perlocutionary act: A perlocutionary act is the act per-formed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance; it is the act performed by saying something.46. Cooperative Principle: It is principle advanced by Paul Grice. It is a principle that guides our conversational behaviors. The content is : Make your conversational contribution such as is required at the stage at which it occurs by the accepted purpose or the talk exchange in which you are engaged.。

语言学概论名词解释

语言学概论名词解释

名词解释1.语言学:语言学是研究语言的科学。

2.口语:口语是指有声的口头语言。

3.书面语:书面语是文字记录的语言的书面形式。

4.符号:是指根据社会约定俗成使用某种特定的物质实体来表示某种特定的意义而形成的实体和意义的结合体。

5.能指:是语言符号的物质实体,即能够指称某种意义的成分。

6.所指:是语言符号所指的意义的内容。

7.聚合关系:在同一位置上可以相互替换出现的各个语言单位处在可以联想起来的关系中,因而聚合成为一个类,这种关系成为聚合关系。

8.组合关系:一个语言单位和前一个语言单位或后一个语言单位,或前后两个语言单位,或语言单位与互相关联的语言单位组合而成的整体之间所具有的关系称为组合关系。

9.语言学: 研究语言的科学叫做语言学10.普通语言学:研究人类语言这种社会现象的一般理论的语言学学科称为普通语言学11理论语言学: 侧重语言理论探讨的语言学学科叫做理论语言学12.应用语言学:侧重语言学理论和成果的实际应用的语言学学科称为应用语言学13.传统语言学:传统语言学一般泛指20世纪以前的语言学,特别是指索绪尔开创的结构主义语言学以前的语言学。

14.结构主义语言学: 由索绪尔创立的研究语言系统本身的内在规律的语言学称为结构主义语言学。

15. 语音:由人的发音器宫发出的,负载着一定的意义并作为语言符号系统载体的声音。

16. 振幅:发音体振动时离开平衡位置的最大偏移距离叫做振幅17. 频率:发音体在每一秒内振动的次数叫做频率18. 音高:音高是指声音的高低19. 音强:音强是指声音的强弱20. 音长:音长是指声音的长短21.音质:又叫音色,指声音的个性或特色,是一个声音区别于其他声音的基本特征22.基音:一般的声音都是由发音体发出的一系列频率、振幅各不相同的振动复合而成的,其中频率最低的振动发出的声音叫做“基音”23.陪音:一般的声音都是由发音体发出的一系列频率、振幅各不相同的振动复合而成的,其中频率最低的振动以外的振动发出的声音叫做“陪音”.24.乐音:当基音和陪音的频率之间存在着整数倍的比例关系时,会形成一种复杂而有规则的、具有周期性重复特征的声波形式,这种声音叫做乐音。

语言学概论名词解释

语言学概论名词解释

语言学:是以语言作为专门研究对象的一门独立的科学;从方法上分为历史语言学、比较语言学、历史比较语言学、描写语言学;从研究对象上可分为个别语言学和普通语言学;19C 初的历史比较语言学标志着语言学的诞生。

语文学:是为给古代文化遗产,即政治历史文学等方面的经典书面著作作注释,目的是使人们可以读懂古书的一门尚未独立的学科。

“小学”:中国传统的语文学,围绕阐释和解读先秦典籍来展开研究,形成了文字学、音韵学、训诂学,分别探讨和研究汉字的字形、字音、字义。

专语语言学:以某种具体的语言为研究对象的语言学。

共时语言学、历时语言学:根据语言体系的稳固和变化,把语言研究分为共时的和历时的研究,。

共时语言学研究的是在特定时期内相对稳固的语言体系,如对现代汉语的研究;历时语言学研究的则是描写语言体系的历史演变,如对汉语发展史的研究。

普通语言学:是对人类语言从理论方面进行研究的一门学科,它探索各种语言所共有的规律以及各种语言在结构上的共同特点。

历史语言学:用历史的方法来考察语言的历史演变、研究它的变化规律的语言学。

比较语言学:用比较的方法,对不同的语言进行对比研究,找出它们相异之处或共同规律的语言学。

表层结构、深层结构:表层结构和深层结构相对,表层结构赋予句子以一定的语音形式,即通过语音形式所表达出来的那种结构,表层结构是由深层结构转换而显现的;深层结构是赋予句子以一定的语义解释的那种结构。

索绪尔:现代语言学的创始人,代表著作是《普通语言学教程》。

(简单要加补充) 语言的社会功能语言:就其本质而言,语言是一种音义结合的符号系统;就其社会功能来说,语言是一种特殊的社会现象,是人类最重要的交际工具和必不可少的思维工具。

言语:是对语言的运用,是语言的行为和结果。

说话:是人们运用语言工具表达思想所产生的结果。

思维:是人脑能动地反映客观现实的机能和过程。

根据思维活动的不同形态可分为三种类型:直观动作思维、形象思维、抽象思维。

语言学的名词解释

语言学的名词解释

语言学的名词解释引言语言学是研究语言的结构、规律和变化的学科。

作为一门学科,语言学涉及广泛的领域,涵盖了词汇、语法、语音、语义等多个方面。

在语言学研究中,有许多重要的名词需要解释,这些名词有助于我们理解语言学的基本概念和理论。

本文将介绍几个语言学中常用的名词,并对其进行解释。

语音学1. 语音语音是指人类使用声音来进行交流和表达意思的能力。

在语音学中,语音是指语言的声音单位,包括语音的产生、分类和描述等方面。

2. 语音学语音学是研究语音的学科。

它研究语音的产生、传播、感知和分类等问题,对语音的音素、音节、音系等进行描述和分析。

3. 音素音素是语言中最小的音位单位。

一个音素可以通过替换使一个音与另外一个音有所区别。

音素可用于建立音位对比,对研究语音的差异和系统性做出描述。

4. 音节音节是语言中的基本语音单位。

它由一段连续的声音组成,包括一个或多个音素。

音节在构成词语时具有重要的作用,不同语言对音节的组合和结构有不同的规律。

语法学1. 语法语法是描述语言结构和规则的学科。

它研究语言中单词和句子之间的关系,以及语言的句法规则。

语法可以分为句法、词法、句子成分等多个层面。

2. 句法句法是语法学中研究句子结构和组织的分支。

它研究句子的成分和关系,包括主谓结构、宾语、修饰语等。

3. 词法词法是语法学中研究词汇和词法规则的分支。

它研究词汇的构成和分类,包括词根、词缀、词义等方面。

4. 句子成分句子成分是组成句子的不可再分的最小单位。

在句子中,包括主语、谓语、宾语、定语、状语等多个句子成分,它们各自具有不同的语法功能。

语义学1. 语义语义是研究词义和语言意义的学科。

它研究词汇和句子的意义,以及语言表达的信息和引申。

2. 语义学语义学是研究语言意义的学科。

它研究语言中的词义、句义、语境等方面的问题,揭示词语和句子的真正含义。

3. 词义词义是一个词所具有的意义。

在语义学中,词义可以通过定义、例句和语境等方式来解释和理解。

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↖(^ω^)↗↖(^ω^)↗↖(^ω^)↗↖(^ω^)↗↖(^ω^)↗↖(^ω^)↗1 Duality(二元性): each human language is organized into two basic seystems: a system of sounds and a system of meaning. This is called the duality of language.2.connotative meaning(内涵意义): the additional meanings that a word or a phrase has beyond its central meaning.3. minimal pair(最小对立体): When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the strings, the two words are called minimal pairs.4. Affix(词缀): the collective term for the type of formative that can be used only when added to another morpheme (the root or stem).(词缀是一个构词成分的集合,它们只能附加于另一个语素词根或词干上.)5. Sociolinguistics(社会语言学)studies the interaction between language and the structure and functioning of society.6. lingua franca(通用语)the general term for a language that serves as a means of communication between different groups of speakers.7. Psycholinguistics(心理语言学)studies how humans learn language and the relationship of linguistic behavoir and the psychological processes in producing and understanding language.8. diachronic linguistics(历时语言学): The description of the historical development of a language is a diachronic study.9. immidiate constituent analysis(直接成分分析)is the technique of breaking up sentences into word groups by makingsuccessive binary cuttings until the level of single words is reached.(when constituents(i.e. Structural units) are considered as part of the successive unraveling of a sentence, they are known as its immidiate constituents.)10. Euphemism(委婉语):a word or phrase that replaces a taboo word or is used to avoid reference to certain acts or subjects,e.g. powder room for toilet.11. Taboo(禁忌语):words that are offensive or embarrassing, considered inappropriate for “polite society”, thus to be avoided in conversation.12. structural linguistics(结构语言学)it is based on the assumption that grammatical categories, should be definede not in terms of meaning, but in terms of distribution and that the structure of each language should be focused on description.13. Semantic triangle(语义三角)One best known example to illustrate this view is the Semantic Triangle .Thought or Reference( concept)Symbol Referent(Linguistic elements) ( object in the world)14. Morphology(形态学)refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.15. Presupposition(预设)refers to the conditions that must be met in order for the intended meaning of a sentence to be regarded as acceptable.16. Overgeneralization(过分概括)the process of extending the application of a rule to items that are excluded from it in the language norm.17. Fossilization(僵化现象)It is a process occurring from time to time in which incorrect linguistic features become apermanent part of the way a person speaks or writes a language.18. Register(语域)It is a technical term used to describe a language variety that is associated with a particular topic, the interpersonal relationship between the speaker and the hearer, and the speech channel.(It refers to the functional variety of language that is defined according to its use in context.)19. utterance meaning (话语意义)----refers to a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication. It becomes an utterance and it should be considered in the situation in which it is actually uttered or used.话语意义是指在句子意义的基础上,是句子意义在特定语境中的具体化,它体现了说话人的意图和目的,它是动态的。

20. co-operative principle(合作原则) the participants in a conversation normally communicate in a maximally efficient, rational and cooperative way. They should speak sincerely, relevantly and clearly, while proving sufficient information. This general principle is called the Cooperative Principle, abbreviated as CP.21. illocutionary act (言外行为) is the act performed in saying something.22. inflectional morpheme(曲折词素)refer to the morphemes which never change their syntactic category but represent the concept of tense and aspect. In English ,there are eight inflectional morphemes: “-s (动词第三人称单数)”, “-ed (动词过去式)”, ‘-ing(现在分词)”, “the past participle (-en)”“-s”(名词复数) “-s’(名词所有格)”,”-er(形容词比较级)”, “-est(形容词最高级)”.23. bound morpheme(黏着词素): a bound morpheme is one that may appear with at least one other morpheme, such a s “-s” in “dogs”,”-al” in “national”, “-dis” in “disclose”.24. broad transcription(宽式标音): transcription with letter-symbols only(omits many of the irrelevant and predictable details of pronunciation ).25. Linguistic determinism(语言决定论)refers to the ideas that the language we use determines the way we view and think about the world around us.。

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