Which of the given words is pronounced as a single word?

• A) NASA
• B)
• C)
• D)

In conversational interactions, a great deal of what is meant is not actually present in what is___________________.

• A) said
• B) requested
• C) permitted
• D) allowed

One of the properties of generative grammar is that grammar has number of rules but is capable of producing number of sentences.

• A) finite, infinite
• B)
• C)
• D)

A successful act of reference depends more on the listener’s _________________ to recognize what we mean than on the listener’s “dictionary” knowledge of a word we use.

• A) ability
• B) inanity
• C) ineptness
• D) lexeme meaning

The most important practical issue that deals with is the learning of second or foreign languages.

• A) applied linguistics
• B)
• C)
• D)

Indirect speech acts seems to be more _________________than direct speech acts.

• A) moderate
• B) All of the given options
• C) polite
• D) gentle

Linguistics can be defined as the study of language.

• A) scientific
• 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

In morphology, the difference between dog and dogs is that of form.

• A) lexeme
• 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

The study of language in general is often referred to as .

• A) linguistics
• 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

Which of the following branches of linguistics discusses the way in which language is represented and processed in the brain?

• A) psycholinguistics
• 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

The branch of linguistics named is mainly concerned with the analysis of the distribution patterns and spatial structures of languages in contact.

• A) geographical linguistics
• 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

In linguistics, is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language?

• A) grammar
• 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

A simple way to understand both phonetics and phonology is that phonetics is considered the physics of sound, and phonology is considered the of sound.

• A) psychology
• 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