英语语言学题

英语语言学试题B 卷及答案（III. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the corresponding letter A， B， C or D in the brackets. （1%×20=20%）1) The study of language at one point of time is a _______ study. A. synchronic B. historic C. diachronic D. descriptive 2）Synonyms are classified into several kinds. The kind to which “fall ” and “autumn ” belong is called _____ synonyms. A. stylisticB. dialectal C. emotiveD. collocational 3) The sentence “ John likes ice-cream ” contains ________ arguments.A. one B. two C. none D. three 4) Semantics can be defined as the study of ________. A. naming B. meaning C. communication D. context 5) Once the notion of ________ was taken into consideration ， semantics spilled into pragmatics. A. meaning B. context C. form D. content 6) Of the three speech acts ， linguists are most interested in the _______. A. locutionary act B. perlocutionary act C. illocutionary act D. none of the above 7) Most of the violations of the maxims of the Cooperative Principle give rise to _____. A. utterance meaning B. speech act theory C. conversational implicatures D. none of the above 8) The significance of Grice ’ s CP lies in that it explains how it is possible for the speaker to convey ______ is literally said. A. more than B. less than C. the same as D. none of the above 9) The goal of ______ is to explore the nature of language variation and language use among a variety of speech communities and different social situations. A. psycholinguistics B. sociolinguistics C. historical linguistics D. general linguistics 10) Black English has a number of distinctive features in it...