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1、Chapter1Revisionexercisesreference!•Howdoyouinterpretthefollowingdeflnitionoflinguistics:Linguisticsisthescientificstudyoflanguage?Refertosection1.1.1Linguisticsinvestigatesnotanyparticularlanguage,e.g.English,Chinese,ArabicandLatin,butlanguageingeneralItsultimategoalis
2、tofindtherulesthatgovernthestructureanduseoflanguagethatcanbeappliedtoallhumanlanguages.Itisascientificstudybecauseitisbasedonthesystematicinvestigationofobjectivelinguisticdata,notsentencemadeupbylinguiststhemselves.Intheirinvestigationlinguisticsfollowaprocedurequites
3、imilartothatofnaturalscientists.Firstofalltheyhavetoobserveandcollectlanguagefacts,i.e>thelanguagepeopleactuallyuse.Basedonthedatathusobtained,theymakesomehypothesesaboutthestructureofthelanguage.Thenthehypotheseshavetobecheckedagainandagainagainstmorelanguagedatabefore
4、itsvalidityisfullyproved.Onlyatthisstagecanthelinguistsdrawaconclusion.Fromthewaythelinguistswork,wecansaytheirstudyoflanguageisobjectiveandscientific.2.Whatarethemajorbranchesoflinguistics?Whatdoeseachofthemstudy?Refertosection1.1.2Themajorbranchesoflinguisticsincludet
5、hefollowing:Phonetics:Thestudyofsoundsusedinlinguisticscommunication.Phonology:Thestudyhowsoundsareputtogetherandareusedtoconveymeaningincommunication.Moiphology:Thestudyofhowmorphemes,iesymbols,arearrangedandcombinedtoformwork.Syntax:Thestudyofrulesthatgovernthegrammat
6、icalformationofsentences.Semantics:Thestudyoflanguagemeaning.Pragmatics:Thestudyofhowlanguageisusedinactualcommunication.Thestudyoflanguagecanalsobecombinedwithotherbranchesoflearningofthehumanities-Theseincludethefollowing:Sociolinguistics:Thestudyofthesocialaspectsofl
7、anguageanditsrelationwithsociety.Psycholinguistics:Thestudyofhowthemindworkswhenlanguageisused.Appliedlinguistics:Thestudyofhowfindingsinlinguisticsstudiescanbeappliedtothesolutionofpracticalproblem,suchastherecoveryofspeechabilityandforeignlanguageteachingandlearning.2
8、.Inwhatbasicwaysdoesmodernlinguisticsdifferfromtraditionalgrammar?Refertosection1.1.3,part6.Modernlinguisticsa
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