学堂在线语言学通识期末考试答案

语言学通识 - 西北师范大学 - 学堂在线

1.单选题 (2分)

Generally speaking, there are ( ) types of cohesive ties. ()

Athree

Bfour

CFive

Dsix

正确答案：C

2.单选题 (2分)

According to Givon, there are ( )and ( )coherence in discourse. ()

Alocal, global

Bmicro, macro

Csentence, paragraph

Dconcrete, abstract

正确答案：A

3.单选题 (2分)

When a question is followed by another question, the latter is called a ( ). ()

Apreferred structure

Bdispreferred structure

Cturn

DRepetition

正确答案：B

4.单选题 (2分)

According to ( ), discourse is used in linguistics to refer to “ passage, spoken and written, of whatever length, that does form a unified whole ”. ()

AHalliday and Hasan

BLeech

CGivon

DJohnson and Johnson

正确答案：A

5.单选题 (2分)

In the following, which one doesn't refer to the syntactic features of pragmatic markers?

AThey often occur sentence-initially (but not restricted to this position).

BThey have little or no propositional meaning.

CThey occur outside the syntactic structure or they are only loosely attached to it.

DThey are optional, i.e. they can be omitted without any change to the content.

正确答案：B

6.单选题 (2分)

Ifwethink of a sentence as what people actually utter the course of communication, and the use of a peculiar of language, by a peculiar speaker on a peculiar occasion, it becomes a/an( ). ()

Autterance

Bdirective

Cconstative

DExpressive

正确答案：A

7.单选题 (2分)

( )( )is concerned with the identification of the interlocutors or participant-roles in a speech event. ()

Aperson deixis

Btime deixis

Cspace deixis

Dsocial deixis

正确答案：A

8.多选题 (2分)

Context can be seen as composed of three different sources: 

context, context and  context.

APhysical

Binterpersonal relationship

Clinguistic

Dgeneral knowledge

正确答案：A,C,D (少选不得分)

9.单选题 (2分)

The cultural patterns in the world are ______concept which provide the foundation that underlies a people’s entire way of life. ()

Aidentical and concrete

Bdivergent and abstract

Cidentical and abstract

Ddivergent and concrete

正确答案：B

10.单选题 (2分)

High-uncertainty-avoidance members would most likely want to move at a rather slow pace and ask for greater amount of detail and planning. ()

Ahigh-certainty-avoidance members

Blow-certainty-avoidance members

Chigh-uncertainty-avoidance members

Dlow-uncertainty-avoidance members

正确答案：C

11.单选题 (2分)

Many people from cultures that prefer “high involvement” style tend to do the following except _____. ()

Agive plenty of positive and respectful responses to their conversation partners

Bexpect to be interrupted

Ctalk more loudly at times and

Dtalk more quickly than those from cultures favoring “high considerateness” styles.

正确答案：A

12.单选题 (2分)

Synthetic thinking pattern which Chines people hold is characterized by ______. ()

Aemphasis on the parts of things

Bemphasis on the whole things

Cpursuing absolute dichotomies

Dbeing strong in classification and categorization

正确答案：B

13.单选题 (2分)

In normal situations, __________ tend to use more prestigious forms than their __________ counterparts with the same social background. ()

AFemale, male

BMale, female

CYoung, old

DOld, young

正确答案：A

14.单选题 (2分)

__________ is the condition of being bilingual, that is, the ability of an individual or the members of a community to use two languages effectively, which is common in places where there are many immigrants or descendants of immigrants. ()

ADiglossia

BBilingualism

CCreole

DPidgin

正确答案：B

15.单选题 (2分)

___________ means that certain authorities, such as the government choose, a particular speech variety, standardize it and spread the use of it across regional boundaries. ()

ALanguage interference

BLanguage changes

CLanguage planning

DLanguage transfer

正确答案：C

16.单选题 (2分)

Using nick names, jargons, slangs, ellipses and swear words will function as an expression of __________. ()

Apositive politeness

Bnegative politeness

Cface-threatening act

Dface-saving act

正确答案：A

17.单选题 (2分)

Which of the following is out of the scope of psycholinguistic studies? ()

Alanguage comprehension

Blanguage production

Clanguage acquisition

Dlanguage evolution

正确答案：D

18.单选题 (2分)

Which of the statement is true about sensory memory? ()

AIt is the shortest-term element of memory.

BInformation in the visual sensory store persists for about 3-4 seconds.

CInformation in the auditory sensory store persists for about 0.2-0.5 second.

DIt refers to our ability to retain the information which is selected by attention.

正确答案：A

19.单选题 (2分)

The minimal attachment and the later closure strategies are _________. ()

Acontradictory

Bcomplementary

Cunrelated

DIndependent

正确答案：B

20.单选题 (2分)

Language production sequentially involves _________.

Alinguistic a plan, conceptualizing a message, articulating and self-monitoring

Bformulating a linguistic plan, conceptualizing a message, articulating, and self-monitoring

Cconceptualizing a message, formulating a linguistic plan, articulating and self-monitoring

Dconceptualizing a message, formulating a linguistic plan, self-monitoring, and articulating

正确答案：C

21.判断题 (4分)

Conversational analysis is mainly put forward by Halliday. ()

正确答案：错误

22.判断题 (4分)

Coherence is closely rated to grammatical and lexical devices that overtly connect sentences together. ()

正确答案：错误

23.判断题 (4分)

There are several features of pragmatic markers. In syntactic features, pragmatic markers only occur sentence-initially. ()

正确答案：错误

24.判断题 (4分)

The use of “I’m going” encodes movement away from the deictic center, therefore we do not have a deictic projection. While the use of “I’m coming” marks movement toward the deictic center, therefore we have a deictic projection, namely, the deictic center has been projected from the speaker on to the addressee.()

正确答案：正确

25.判断题 (4分)

Individualism stresses that each individual is unique, special, completely different from all other individuals, and is the basic unit of nature, and the smallest unit of survival is the group. ()

正确答案：错误

26.判断题 (4分)

Values are a inborn rules for making choices and for resolving conflicts. These rules tell us what is good, right, wrong, beautiful, what to strive for, and how to live our life, and they represent what is expected or hoped for, required or forbidden. ()

正确答案：错误

27.判断题 (4分)

In sociolinguistics, these social factors such as participants, social settings, topics, functions, will prove important in describing and analyzing all kinds of interaction. ()

正确答案：正确

28.判断题 (4分)

A pidgin is a creole which has acquired native speakers. They are learned by children as their first language and used in a wide range of domains. ()

正确答案：错误

29.判断题 (4分)

The psychology of language deals with the mental processes that are involved in language use. ()

正确答案：正确