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1、胡壮麟语言学教程期末考试复习专用笔记（老师画的重点; Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics 1.1 Why study language 1. Language is very essential to human beings.2. In language there are many things we should know.3. For further understanding, we need to study language scientifically. 1.2 What is language 1.3 Design features of
2、 language The features that define our human languages can be called design features which can distinguish human language from any animal system of communication.1.3.1 Arbitrariness1.3.2 Duality1.3.3 Creativity Creativity means that language is resourceful because of its duality and its recursivenes
3、s. Recursiveness refers to the rule which can be applied repeatedly without any definite limit. The recursive nature of language provides a theoretical basis for the possibility of creating endless sentences.1.3.4 Displacement 1.4 Origin of language 1. The bow-wow theory In primitive times people im
4、itated the sounds of the animal calls in the wild environment they lived and speech developed from that. 2. The pooh-pooh theory In the hard life of our primitive ancestors, they utter instinctive sounds of pains, anger and joy which gradually developed into language.3. The “yo-he-ho theoryAs primit
5、ive people worked together, they produced some rhythmic grunts which gradually developed into chants and then into language.1.5 Functions of language As is proposed by Jacobson, language has six functions:1. Referential: to convey message and information;2. Poetic: to indulge in language for its own
6、 sake;3. Emotive: to express attitudes, feelings and emotions;4. Conative: to persuade and influence others through commands and entreaties; 5. Phatic: to establish communion with others; 6. Metalingual: to clear up intentions, words and meanings. What is contextualism “Contextualism is based on the
7、 presumption that one can derive meaning from, or reduce it to, observable context: the “situational context and the “linguistic context. Every utterance occurs in a particular spatial-temporal situation, as the following factors are related to the situational context: (1) the speaker and the hearer
8、; (2) the actions they are performing at the time; (3) various external objects and events; (4) deictic features. The “linguistic context is another aspect of contextualism. It considers the probability of one words co-occurrence or collocation with another, which forms part of the meaning, and an i
9、mportant factor in communication. Halliday (1994) proposes a theory of metafunctions of language. It means that language has three metafunctions: According to Hu Zhuanglin, language has at least seven functions: 1.5.1 Informative 1.5.2 Interpersonal functionThe interpersonal function means people ca
10、n use language to establish and maintain their status in a society. 1.5.3 PerformativeThe performative function of language is primarily tochange the social status of persons, as in marriage ceremonies, the sentencing of criminals, the blessing of children, the naming of a ship at a launching ceremo
11、ny, and the cursing of enemies.1.5.4 Emotive function1.5.5 Phatic communionThe phatic communion means people always use some small, seemingly meaningless expressions such as Good morning, God bless you, Nice day, etc., to maintain a comfortable relationship between people without any factual content
12、. 1.5.6 Recreational functionThe recreational function means people use language for the sheer joy of using it, such as a babys babbling or a chanters chanting. 1.5.7 Metalingual functionThe metalingual function means people can use language to talk about itself. E.g. I can use the word “book to tal
13、k about a book, and I can also use the expression “the word book to talk about the sign “b-o-o-k itself. 1.6 What is linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It studies not just one language of any one community, but the language of all human beings.1.7 Main branches of linguisti
14、cs1.7.1 PhoneticsPhonetics is the study of speech sounds, it includes three main areas: articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and auditory phonetics.1.7.2 PhonologyPhonology studies the rules governing the structure, distribution, and sequencing of speech sounds and the shape of syllables.1.7.
15、3 MorphologyMorphology studies the minimal units of meaning morphemes and word-formation processes.1.7.4 SyntaxSyntax refers to the rules governing the way words are combined to form sentences in a language, or simply, the study of the formation of sentences.1.7.5 SemanticsSemantics examines how meaning is encoded in a language. 1.7.6 Pragmatics Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context.
胡壮麟语言学教程期末考试复习专用笔记（老师画的重点
