MCQ Bank
Indirect speech acts seems to be more _________________than direct speech acts.
- A) moderate
- B) All of the given options
- C) polite
- D) gentle
Panini, the first known grammarian of the world, was from.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
There is a degree of ____________________ in identifying a stretch of language as discourse.
- A) subjectivity
- B) subjectivity and objectivity
- C) objectivity
- D) None of the given options
All languages require the organization and combining of sounds of in specific arrangements.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
While interpreting discourse, rather than simply rejecting the text as ungrammatical, we try to make ___________________ of it.
- A) sense
- B) censor
- C) sensor
- D) cense
According to Bloch and Trager, a language is a system of vocal symbols by means of which a social group co-operates.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Discourse analysis is the study of how__________________ used in communication assume meaning, purpose and unity for their users.
- A) precinct of language
- B) stretches of language
- C) stagnation of language
- D) All of the given options
The connection between the word ‘dog’ and the creature it refers to is not natural. It seems quite.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Almost any speech act is really the performance of _________________ acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the speaker's intention.
- A) three
- B) two
- C) one
- D) several
Sapir and Hall treat language as a purely institution.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Referential relationship, the second (or subsequent) referring expression, is an example of _________________.
- A) complement
- B) anaphora
- C) None of the given options
- D) antecedent
Behaviorists usually define language as a behavior that involves a stimulus and a response.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
An appropriate number of ____________________ may be a crucial factor in our judgments on whether something is well written or not.
- A) cheesy ties
- B) close ties
- C) cohesive ties
- D) None of the given options
The quality of productivity in human beings can also be termed as open-endedness or.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
In discourse, culture-specific rules and procedures of turn-taking provide ample breeding ground for _____________________.
- A) accepting
- B) misunderstanding
- C) questioning
- D) understanding
The pre-existing natural languages are named as.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
We do not have the ability to create complex discourse interpretations of fragmentary linguistic messages.
- A) Incorrect
- B) Correct
- C)
- D)
Genetically, with the passage of time, the brain develops and larynx.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Your dog is lovely. Your dog is not lovely. The presupposition is you have a dog. This is called__________________ under Negation Test.
- A) constancy
- B) firmness
- C) None of the given options
- D) endurance
In linguistics, chemo communication refers to the fact that animals emit certain from their bodies in order to communicate.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)