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[名词解释]synchronic linguistics
[单项选择]Structural linguistics is an approach to linguistics originating from the work of______.
A. Sapir-Whorf
B. Bloomfield
C. Saussure
D. Halliday
[单项选择]Modern linguistics, as against traditional grammar, is ______.
A. descriptive and synchronic
B. descriptive and diachronic
C. prescriptive and synchronic
D. prescriptive and diachronic
[单项选择]Modern linguistics attempts to describe and analyse the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behaviour, so it is supposed to be
A. descriptive.
B. prescriptive.
C. communicative.
D. predictive.
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The science of linguistics has helped to reconstruct the long road the ancestors of modern day Indians traveled in North America. At the time of the discovery of the New World, line explorers found a babel of tongues. In North and South America more languages were spoken—about 2, 200 of them—than all of Europe and Asia at that time. Despite what some early explorers and European scholars believed, there never was such a language as "American Indian"—meaning, presumably, one common language with only local dialects. Rather than one common language that linked the Indians of North America, about 550 distinct languages were spoken, and nearly every language comprised numerous dialects. A second misconception was that a language had to be written to rank as a full-fledged language. In North America, a truly written language developed only in Mexico, yet most Indian groups were able to communi
A. there was one common language spoken throughout the land
B. they discovered a placed called Babel
C. written language was an important means of communication
D. there were many languages spoken, most with many dialects
[单项选择]The first major new development in linguistics until the 13th century was______ grammar.
A. structural
B. speculative
C. generative
D. traditional
[单项选择]The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ______.
A. pragmatics
B. semantics
C. sociolinguistics
D. psycholinguistics
[单项选择]Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into ______ of words.
A. the lexical and grammatical meanings
B. the origins and meanings
C. only the origins
D. only the meanings
[单项选择]Firth insisted that the object of linguistics is （ ）.
A. language itself
B. language in actual use
C. language variation
D. language skills
[判断题]
（）Modern linguistics is mostly descriptive, and prescriptive grammar is no longer used in current language teaching.
[单项选择]（） is the branch of linguistics which studies the sound patterns of languages from a function perspective.
A. Phonetics
B. Semantics
C. Phonology
D. Sociolinguistics
[单项选择]The distinction between ______ in linguistics lies in how things ought to be and describing how things actually are.
[单项选择]Course in General Linguistics was written by______.
A. Halliday
B. Chomsky
C. Sapir
D. Saussure
[单项选择]______is the branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used.
A. Semantics
B. Pragmatics
C. Sociolinguistics
D. Syntax
[单项选择]Linguistics use ______ to refer to the abstract linguistic system shared by the members of a speech community.
A. langue
B. parole
C. symbol
D. common knowledge
[单项选择]Linguistics use ______to refer to the abstract linguistic system shared by the members of a speech community.
A. langue
B. parole
C. symbol
D. common knowledge
