四川电大5107420英语应用语言学测试题二[答案]

四川电大5107420英语应用语言学测试题二[答案]
英语应用语言学测试题二
试卷总分：100 测试时间：90
单项选择题 判断题
一、单项选择题（共 15 道试题，共 60 分。）
1. Language and thought may be viewed as two independent circles overlapping in some parts. When language and thought are identical or closely parallel to each other, we may regard thought as "subvocal speech," and speech as "_______".
A. vocal thought
B. subvocal thought
C. covert thought
D. overt thought

2. The term _______ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.
A. synchronic
B. diachronic
C. comparative
D. historical comparative

3. The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ___.
A. semantics
B. pragmatics
C. sociolinguistics
D. psycholinguistics

4. Predication analysis is a way to analyze _______ meaning.
A. phoneme
B. word
C. phrase
D. sentence

5. The famous quotation from Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet” ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ well illustrates _______.
A. the conventional nature of language
B. the creative nature of language
C. the universality of language
D. the big difference between human language and animal communication