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
New functional morphemes cannot normally be .
- A) coined
- 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
The main three branches of phonetics are articulatory, and auditory.
- A) acoustic
- 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
In tradition grammar, a is a category of words have similar grammatical properties.
- A) Part of speech
- 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
Recursive rules have the capacity to repeat or generate the of a sentence more than once.
- A) structure
- B)
- C)
- D)
A direct speech act is that when we _________________ something.
- A) function
- B) respond
- C) retort
- D) interrogate
Except only in certain educational contexts, modern linguists utterly rejects .
- A) prescriptivism
- 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
The word �syntax� literally means �putting together� or .
- A) arrangement
- 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 Latin, each of the verb forms of different, according to the categories of person and .
- A) number
- 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
In phonology, no word ends with more than consonants.
- A) four
- B)
- C)
- D)
Deixis means ________________ via language.
- A) intensifying
- B) escalating
- C) pointing
- D) None of the given options
Lexical morphemes are class words.
- A) open
- 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