814-《英语语言文学综合考试》考试大纲
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一、考查目标
全日制英语语言文学硕士学位入学考试科目《英语语言文学综合考试》的考查内容包括英美文化、英美文学及语言学三门英语语言文学专业的基础课程,要求考生系统掌握相关学科的基本知识、基础理论和基本方法,并能运用相关理论和方法分析、解决实际问题。
二、考试形式与试卷结构
(一)试卷成绩及考试时间
本试卷满分为150分,考试时间为180分钟。
(二)答题方式
答题方式为闭卷、笔试。
(三)试卷内容结构
英美文化
英美文学
语言学
(四)试卷题型结构
客观题(包括但不限于正误判断题、选择题等题型, 每次考试视具体情况采用哪种题型)
主观题(包括但不限于名词解释、论述题等题型,每次考试视具体情况采用哪种题型)
三、考查范围
英美文化
1. British Society & Culture
1.1 Land and People
1.2 History
1.3 Economy
1.4 Politics and Society
1.5 Education
2. American Society & Culture
2.1 Land and People
2.2 History
2.3 Economy
2.4 Politics and Law
2.5 Family
2.6 Society
2.7 Education
2.8 Beliefs and Values
英美文学
英美文学部分的考查范围分为文学史和文学作品选读两个部分。文学史部分主要考查考生对英美文学史各个阶段及各阶段中重要作家作品基本情况的掌握。文学作品选读部分考查考生对部分重要作家有代表性的部分作品的掌握。
英国文学史考查范围
The Anglo-Saxon Period: Beowulf
The Anglo-Norman Period: Chaucer; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Renaissance: More; Bacon; Sidney; Spenser; Marlowe; Shakespeare
The 17th Century: Donne; Jonson; Milton; Dryden; Bunyan
The 18th Century: Defoe; Swift; Addison and Steele; Pope; Johnson; Gray; Goldsmith; Fielding; Sheridan; Blake; Burns
The Romantic Period: Wordsworth; Coleridge; Byron; Shelley; Keats; Scott; Austen; Lamb
The Victorian Age: E. B. Browning; Tennyson; Robert Browning; The Bronte Sisters; Dickens; Thackeray; Eliot
The 20th Century: Hardy; Shaw; Conrad; Yeats; Forster; Woolf; Joyce; Lawrence; T. S. Eliot; Orwell
英国文学作品选读考查范围
Popular ballads: Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale; Get Up and Bar the Door
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue)
Shakespeare: Hamlet(Act III, Scene I); Sonnets 18, 29, and 106
Bacon: Of Studies
Donne: Song; A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Milton: Paradise Lost (Book I)
Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Part IV)
Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Blake: London; The Chimney Sweeper
Burns: John Anderson, My Jo; A Red, Red Rose
Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; The Solitary Reaper
Lord Byron: Don Juan (The Isles of Greece)
Shelley: Ozymandias; Ode to the West Wind
Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer; Ode on a Grecian Urn
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Lord Tennyson: Ulysses
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
美国文学史考查范围
American Literature in the Colonial Period
American Literature in the Age of Reason and Revolution
American Romanticism
American Realism
American Literature in the Twentieth Century
美国文学作品选读考查范围
Representative works by the following writers:
1. The Literature of Reason and Revolution: Philip Freneau, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson
2. The Literature of Romanticism: Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. The Literature of Realism: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Henry James, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser
4. Twentieth-Century Literature: Ezra Pound, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Stearns Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner
语言学
Chapter 1 Language and Linguistics
1.1 The nature of language
1.2 The functions of language
1.3 Language families
1.4 Some important distinctions in linguistics
1.5 The scope of linguistics
Chapter 2 Phonetics and phonology
2.1 Production of sounds
2.2 Phonemes
2.3 Sound patterns
2.4 Suprasegmental features
Chapter 3 Morphology and lexicon
3.1 Word and word class
3.2 Morpheme
3.3 Inflection and word-formation
3.4 Lexicon
Chapter 4 Syntax
4.1 Sentence structure
4.2 Syntactic function and category
4.3 Transformational rules
Chapter 5 Semantics
5.1 Approaches to meaning
5.2 Semantic field and semantic relations
5.3 Semantic analysis
Chapter 6 Pragmatics and text analysis
6.1 Speech act theory
6.2 The Cooperative principle and the politeness principle
6.3 Presupposition and the structure of spoken text
6.4 Cohesion
6.5 Thematic structure ad information unit
Chapter 7 Language and social culture
7.1 Language varieties
7.2 Language and culture
7.3 Language change
7.4 Language planning
Chapter 8 Language acquisition and thought
8.1 First language acquisition
8.2 Second language acquisition
8.3 Language and thought
Chapter 9 Linguistics and Language teaching
9.1 Approaches to language teaching
9.2 Syllabus design
9.3 Language testing
9.4 Error analysis