II. Answer the two given questions. (30 points)
1. Do you agree with the view that no language is especially simple? 2. How does language relate to culture?
(2) Visiting relatives can be boring. 2. Do the componential analysis on the lexical meanings of the given words below. (10 points) (1) raise; (2) wife
IV. Write a short essay in about 500 words on either of the two topics below. (50 points)
1. In cognitive linguistics, metaphor is not a figure of speech merely, it is conceptual. In what
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sense is metaphor said to be conceptual?
2. Give a comment on Noam Chomsky’s Innateness Hypothesis.
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科目代码及名称: 820 英语语言学
适用专业：英语语言文学 01、03 方向考生
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I. Define the following terms. (50 points)
1. I-narrator; 2. locutionary act; 3. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis; 4. reference; 5. relational opposites; 6. exocentric construction; 7. back-formation; 8. blending; 9. phonology (20 points)
1. Write out the different meanings of the following two ambiguous constructions. (10 points) (1) The chicken is too hot to eat.