文档介绍：胡壮麟《语言学教程》课后答案
Define the following terms:
Chapter 1
1. Design feature: are features that define our human languages, such as arbitrariness, duality, creativity, displacement, cultural transmission, etc.
2. Function: the use of language municate, to think, etc. Language functions include informative function, interpersonal function, performative function, interpersonal function, performative function, emotive function, munion, recreational function and multilingual function.
3. ethic: a term in contrast with emic which originates from American linguist Pike’s distinction of ics and phonemics. Being etic means making far too many, as well as behaviorally inconsequential, differentiations, just as was often the case with ic vs. phonemic analysis in linguistics proper.
4. emic: a term in contrast with etic which originates from American linguist Pike’s distinction of ics and phonemics. An emic set of speech acts and events must be one that is validated as meaningful via final resource to the native members of a munity rather than via appeal to the investigator’s ingenuity or intuition alone.
5. synchronic: a kind of description which takes a fixed instant(usually, but not necessarily, the present),as its point of observation. Most grammars are of this kind.
6. diachronic: study of a language is carried through the course of its history.
7. prescriptive: the study of a lan