问答题Minoru Yamasaki is an American architect which works departed from the austerity frequently associated with architecture in the United States after the Second World War.
问答题the Beat Generation
问答题Correctly classify the following pairs of antonyms into different types of antonymy.(1)parent—offspring;(2)teach—learn;(3)rude—polite;(4)false—true
问答题Allegory
问答题What does the word "irony" mean in literary writing?
问答题Orientational metaphor
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问答题Examine the following two statements about language, and discuss the similarities and differences between them. Do you agree with the two statements? Explain your answer.(1) Sapir (1921: Language): "Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols. (p.8).(2) Bloch and Trager (1942: Outline of Linguistic Analysis): "A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group co-operates. " (p. 5). (北外2005研)
问答题How do you understand the role of linguistic research in social and economic development? (南开大学2004研)
问答题Lyrical Ballads
问答题The Defence of Poesy
问答题acculturation
问答题first-person narrative
问答题We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Mother Night
, 1961
Anyone who cannot understand how useful a religion based on lies can be will not understand this book either.
Cat"s Cradle
, 1963
This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfa-madore, where the flying saucers come from.
Slaughterhouse-Five
, 1969
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问答题Research has found that two-year-old English children produce negative sentences such as a) to d) , but not e) :a) He doesn't like cabbage.b) Doesn't like cabbage.c) Him no like cabbage.d) No like cabbage.e) * Him doesn't like cabbage.How can you account for this? (北外2006研)
问答题What are the common characteristics of Shakespeare" s great tragedies?
问答题Boys have generally excellent appetites, He and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months:, at last they got so
voracious
and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn" t been used to
that sort of thing
(for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel
per diem
, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
问答题Philosophical presuppositions in terms of "arbitrariness" versus motivation, "autonomy" versus embodiment are still under debates in the field of modern linguistic studies. Comment on the debates and provide your argument for or against these theories.
问答题What are suprasegmental features? How do the major suprasegmental features of English function in conveying meaning?
问答题Death of a Salesman