MCQ Bank
‘essay’ and ‘notice’ are part of.
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Psychological correlates of a natural language is the notion of communicative competence as introduced by _________.
- A) Ronald Carter
- B) Naom Chomsky
- C) Dell Hymes
- D) John McCarthy
Zellig Harris was interested in the distribution of in extended texts.
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Which conjunction includes replacive, subtractive and alternative types?
- A) Variation
- B) Adversative
- C) Extension
- D) Additive
A hyphen indicates an abrupt cut-off or of the sound in progress.
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A faster speaker will generally use __________ intonation units.
- A) more
- B) fewer
- C) longer
- D) casual
Rhetoric is the, practice and study of human communication.
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Prosodic stress is also called__________.
- A) word level
- B) sentence level
- C) upper stress
- D) lower stress
Conversation analysis (CA) is an approach to the study of social interaction that emerged in the.
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The impression of rhythm may arise out of a feeling of alternation between strong and weak is called________.
- A) beats
- B) words
- C) sounds
- D) rhythms
Conversation analysis is an approach is the analysis of discourse.
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Whose framework has been used to examine the global narrative structure?
- A) David Mitchell’s
- B) S. E. Hintson’s
- C) William Labov’s
- D) Van Dijk
Conversation analysis works with the recordings of.
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Interactional sociolinguistics deals with the existence of subtle _________ in the systematic combination of verbal and non-verbal signs.
- A) all the given options
- B) cultural differences
- C) behavioral differences
- D) racial differences
Which one is a type of communicative event in which speech is the main component?
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Anthropology is a unique academic discipline that operates at the crossroads of the __________.
- A) physical sciences
- B) social sciences
- C) environmental sciences
- D) natural sciences
The analysis of language beyond the sentences is called.
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A central recognition of discursive psychology is that actions are_______.
- A) relocated
- B) unfixed
- C) situated
- D) performed
Discourse refers to information which can only be interpreted by reference to.
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Cultural anthropologists study the diversity of human cultures and _______ around the world.
- A) minds
- B) attitudes
- C) societies
- D) languages