MCQ Bank
According to free morpheme constraint, a speaker can make an intra-sentential switch only if a constituent is not a ________ morpheme.
- A) functional
- B) lexical
- C) bound
- D) free
Warren Hastings, Governor of India from 1774 to________ , used indigenization as a means of governance
- A) 1782
- B) 1785
- C)
- D)
____________ cue gives hints to the listeners about the interpretation of the upcoming discourse.
- A) Modification
- B) Textualization
- C)
- D)
___________ is a well-recognized phenomenon in the speech of bilingual or multilingual people.
- A) Diglossia
- B) Code switching
- C) Code mixing
- D) Dialect
____________, being a vehicle of Western ideas, would Anglicise the Indian elite which would be loyal to the British.
- A) Urdu
- B) Sanskrit
- C) Persian
- D) English
American English is perceived to be fairly ___________.
- A) easiest
- B) heterogeneous
- C) homogeneous
- D) complex
_________functions to provide necessary elements that do not exist in the primary language being used.
- A) Code switching
- B) Code mixing
- C) Diglossia
- D) Borrowing
Only _________ percent of learners are expected to achieve native like competence in L2.
- A) thirteen
- B) seven
- C) five
- D) nine
The socioeconomic purposes assigned to education dictated educational language policy in ______ ways.
- A) two
- B) four
- C) three
- D) seven
The phenomenon of exploiting two languages in popular media such as newspapers, songs and films is called ___________ .
- A) expressiveness
- B) colourfulness
- C) politeness
- D) consideration
The role of bureaucracy is quite __________ in language policy.
- A) significant
- B) controversial
- C) relevant
- D) different
The role of ___________ in language planning during the height of modern colonialism is very significant.
- A) speech communities
- B) code mixing
- C) education
- D) code switching
___________ as a concept has no relevance to stable bilingual and multilingual contexts across the world.
- A) Code switching
- B) Intra language
- C) Interlanguage
- D) Code mixing
With reference to varieties of American English, Dialect studies show a great deal of phonetic, lexical, and ____________.
- A) meaning differences
- B) contextual clues
- C) phonetic patterns
- D) grammatical variability
The principal goal of the __________ policy of British Asia was the maintenance of the agricultural basis of production.
- A) Political
- B) Educational
- C)
- D)
English language was made compulsory from class one onwards during _____________ era in Pakistan.
- A) General Zia ul Haq
- B) General Parvez Musharraf
- C)
- D)
A word element that cannot stand alone as a word, including both prefixes and suffixes is called a/ an ________ morpheme.
- A) lexical
- B) inflectional
- C) bound
- D) free
It is a fact that only a minority of population is proficient in____________.
- A) Urdu
- B) English
- C) Chinese
- D) French
In pre-partition period, the ____________ displayed some tolerance to the indigenous languages.
- A) Indians
- B) Afghanis
- C) French
- D) British
The measure which can eliminate the __________ effects of a language policy is to take into consideration social, economic and political factors while designing it.
- A) positive
- B) adverse
- C) progressive
- D) negative