[考研类试卷]英语专业（语言学）历年真题试卷汇编15
一、简答题
1 Do you think B is cooperative in the following dialogue? Support your argument with Cooperative Principle.（南开大学2004研)
A: When is the bus coming?
B: There has been an accident further up the road.
2 Analyze the following dialogue with reference to Grice's Cooperative Principle.(北二外2005研)
A: Oh I like this popular song so much How about you?
B: I often hear classical music, especially, the symphonies composed by Beethoven His Symphony No. 9 is my favorite.
3 In what ways do people cooperate in their conversations?(人大2006研)
4 What is sociolinguistics?（北航2008研)
5 The following is a statement by a Japanese businessman; \
language, but you sell in your customer's language. \（人大2005研)
6 What is language variation?
7 What is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
8 What distinction, if any, can you draw between bilingualism and diglossia?
9 How do the speech of women and the speech of men differ from each other?
10 The following statements are examples of excessive use of euphemism. How to improve them? Examples of excessive use of euphemism:
(1)The employees who had been notified of an interruption in their employment were referred to their outplacement manager.
(2)The official acknowledged that he had misspoken when he said the troops had not engaged in any protective-reaction missions. (3)The prisoner's life will be terminated at dawn.
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(4)The non-essential personnel in this division will be vacationed by next week. (5)Reaching the top of the ladder of success must be a moving experience. (6)I was told that he did away with himself.
It is a widespread but unproven hypothesis that the parameters of significant personal change for persons in mid-life are extremely narrow.
I purchased a residential property that was in need of substantial upgrading.
11 It is claimed in sociolinguistics that you are what you say. How would you comment on this theoretical claim?（武汉大学2011研)
12 What is the purpose of studying language and mind?（南开大学2004研)
13 What are the factors influencing sentence comprehension?
14 What are the four stages of language production and how do you understand them?
15 What is the purpose of studying language and mind?（南开大学2004研)
16 What are the four assumptions of the classical theory?
17 Explain three levels of categorization.
18 How do you understand interlanguage?（西安交大2008研)
19 What is meant by Move-a in Universal Grammar?（西安外国语学院2006研)
20 What are the four obvious barriers to adult L2 acquisition?（浙江大学2003研)
21 Please state the factors that cause errors and mistakes in foreign language learning.（厦门大学2006研)
22 To what extent is second language learning similar to first language learning? Can you list some proof from your own learning experiences?
23 Identify personality factors that may contribute to the SUCCESS of learning a second/foreign language.
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24 What is communicative competence? How should we develop it in our foreign lauguage learning?(四川大学2010研)
25 What are the main features and theoretical base of the audiolingual method?
26 Describe the three main types of language tests.
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[考研类试卷]英语专业(语言学)历年真题试卷汇编15.doc
