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Chapter 1 Language 语言
1. Design feature (识别特征 ) refers to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication.
2. Productivity (能产性 ) refers to the ability that people have in making and comprehending indefinitely large quantities of sentences in their
native language.
3. arbitrariness (任意性 ) Arbitrariness refers to the phenomenon that there is no motivated relationship between a linguistic form and its
meaning.
4. symbol (符号 ) Symbol refers to something such as an object, word, or sound that represents something else by association or convention.
5. discreteness ( 离散性 ) Discreteness refers to the phenomenon that the sounds in a language are meaningfully distinct.
6. displacement (不受时空限制的特性 ) Displacement refers to the fact that human language can be used to talk about things that are not in the
immediate situations of its users.
7. duality of structure (结构二重性 ) The organization of language into two levels, one of sounds, the other of meaning, is known as duality of
structure.
8. culture transmission ( 文化传播 ) Culture transmission refers to the fact that language is passed on from one generation to the next through
teaching and learning, rather than by inheritance.
9. interchangeability ( 互换性 ) Interchangeability means that any human being can be both a producer and a receiver of messages.
1. ★What is language?
Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. This definition has captured the main features of language.
First, language is a system.
Second, language is arbitrary in the sense.
The third feature of language is symbolic nature.
2.
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