MCQ Bank
Descriptive linguistics is closely allied with the.
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In functional linguistics, the concern is with language as a means of.
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Which of the following errors occurs when the learner is unaware of the existence of a particular rule in the target language?
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The analytical study of language began around 500 BC in Greece and.
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Descriptive language focuses on the forms taken by a particular language at a given point in its development.
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Who among the following say that ‘in a three-year-old child “grammatical complexity of utterances is roughly that of colloquial adult language’?
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Who among the following calls applied linguistics as “the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems?”
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The acronym AILA stands for.
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Who said these words? “language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words”.
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Children on the first level/s of language tends to rather make a “little rule” out of sentences.
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If, however, the child has only learnt the ‘little rule’, they make a rule out of the.
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Pairs of utterances such as greeting-greeting and apology-acceptance are called.
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In the field of research, when did psychologists start using discourse analysis?
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Who developed a model for the description of teacher-pupil talk, based on a hierarchy of discourse units?
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The usage of linguistic devices to join sentences together, including conjunctions and reference words is called.
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Conversation analysis is an approach to the analysis of discourse.
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Halliday’s framework emphasizes on the of speech and writing. (thematic structure, informational structure, social-functions, all of the given)
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Conversation analysis works with the recordings of data and carries out careful and fine-grained analyses.
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What discourse markers are used for?
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A/An is a unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each by the two speakers.
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