MCQ Bank
Fairclough (1993) defines CDA as discourse analysis which aims to explore often opaque relationships of ___________________ and determination.
- A) outgrowth
- B) consequence
- C) finale
- D) causality
We assume he or she is intending to be clear. According to Paul Grice, it is a maxim of _________________.
- A) None of the given options
- B) quantity
- C) relevance
- D) quality
In linguistics, the of language does not change but the lexical items are inclined to change.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
A deictic expression is a word or phrase (such as this, that, these, those, now, then) that points to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is__________________.
- A) verbalizing
- B) All of the given options
- C) speaking
- D) articulating
Primitive words could have been of the natural sounds.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
In some contexts, spatial deixis is used metaphorically rather than __________________, i.e. the speaker is not speaking as the deictic centre.
- A) phototypographically
- B) mechanically
- C) physically
- D) stratigraphically
Physical effort and interaction among people could be source of early language learning experience. This statement refers to theory.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
In pragmatics, person deixis concerns with __________________ of the role of participants in the speech even in which the utterance in question is delivered.
- A) cracking
- B) decrypting
- C) encoding
- D) decoding
The human quality of being able to communicate at two levels is called or double articulation.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
A direct speech act is that when we _________________ something.
- A) function
- B) respond
- C) retort
- D) interrogate
Teeth, lips, mouth, larynx, and pharynx are the examples of.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
We can also refer to things when we’re not sure what to ____________________them.
- A) skew
- B) radiate
- C) accent
- D) call
Linguistics is the scientific study of.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Developmentally, dialogue comes___________________ both for the human species, and for the human individuals.
- A) fourth
- B) third
- C) first
- D) second
In linguistics, chemo communication refers to the fact that animals emit certain from their bodies in order to communicate.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
In discourse as dialogue, reasonable to assume is that speech preceded________________ and dialogue preceded monologue.
- A) reading
- B) speaking
- C) writing
- D) listening
After thousands of years of development, human have honed this message-building. The term ‘honed’ means.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Deixis means ________________ via language.
- A) intensifying
- B) escalating
- C) pointing
- D) None of the given options
Factors like are going to influence language of the future. (Economic cycle; People’s migration; One corporate language; All of the given options)
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Like quality maxim, the other three maxims __________________.
- A) can also be obeyed
- B) cannot be flouted
- C) can also be flouted
- D) None of the given options