ENG502 Final Term Quiz from Assessments

ENG502

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Maha Malik Introduction to Linguistics

A Special Thank you to “Sadeeq Abbasi”

1. A deictic expression (or deixis) 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 speaking. (correct)
2. All the deictic expressions have to be interpreted in terms of which person, place or time the speaker has in ________________. (mind)
3. The term “deixis” becomes more and more metaphoric, ambiguous and vague since it is used for many ____________ different situations. (semantically)
4. The term ‘deixis’ is used from the Latin word, which means ‘to show’ or ‘to indicate’.

(Incorrect)

5. To perform an act of reference, we can use proper nouns, other nouns in phrases or pronouns.

(correct)

6. Location deixis is an expression in relation to the certain point of time when the utterance is produced by the speaker. (Incorrect)
7. The listener has to operate with the inference: ‘If X is the name of the writer of a book, then X can be used to identify a copy of a book by that writer’ (correct)
8. Which of the following is an example of additional information used by the listener to create a connection between what is said and what must be meant? (Inference)
9. Tenses are generally separated into ___________ (deictic) and relative tenses. (absolute)
10. This and that, here and there, etc. as place deixis are the expressions used to show the ____________ relative to the location of a participant in the speech event. (location)
11. Place deixis is also known as space deixis, and concerns itself with the spatial locations relevant to an utterance. (correct)

Q12. Which of the following can be defined as subsequent reference to an already introduced entity?

(Anaphora)

13. One of the tests used to check for the presuppositions underlying sentences involves ____________ a sentence with a particular presupposition and checking if it remains true.

(negating)

14. A speech act is an utterance that has no performative function in language and communication.

(incorrect)

15. Failing to recognize another person’s indirect speech act can create confusion. (correct)
16. A direct relationship between the structure and the communicative function of the utterance is called direct speech act. (correct)
17. A presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse. (correct)
18. The presupposition (I married her) remains constant even though the verb regret changes from affirmative to negative. (correct)
19. We can define a ________________ act as an action performed by a speaker with an utterance.

(speech)

20. Which speech acts are based on some complex social assumptions? (Indirect)
21. Which field is concerned with studying and analyzing written and spoken texts to reveal the discursive sources of power, dominance, inequality and bias? (Critical discourse analysis)
22. The key elements investigated in the study of discourse are: the effort to interpret (or to be interpreted) and how we accomplish it. (correct)
23. The structure of which of the following depends on factors different from those required in a single sentence? (Cohesion)
24. In conversational interactions a great deal of what is meant is not actually present in what is said. (correct)
25. Which of the following is a process of filling the gaps that exist in the conversation or in the texts? (Coherence)
26. Which field is concerned with studying and analyzing written and spoken texts to reveal the discursive sources of power, dominance, inequality and bias? (cohesion)
27. Who employed the term ‘discourse analysis’ for the first time? (Zelling Harris)
28. Who study language use ‘beyond the sentence boundary’ and also prefer to analyze naturally occurring language use? (Discourse analyst)
29. Critical Discourse Analysis aims to help reveal some of the hidden and ‘out of sight’ values, positions, and perspective positions. (correct)
30. In discourse analysis, some of the most interesting observations are made, not in terms of the components of language, but in terms of the way language is used. (correct)
31. Discourse Analysis—what speakers do in a conversation-- is the analysis of _________________ 'beyond the sentence'. (Language)
32. Cohesive structure does not differ from one language to the next. (incorrect)
33. Discourse is composed of well-formed sentences and it cannot have grammatical mistakes in it. (incorrect)
34. Conversation is a discourse constructed and negotiated between the participants, following pre- established patterns, and marking the direction in particular ways. (correct)
35. There is no hard evidence of the origins of language in prehistoric communities to assume that speech preceded writing and dialogue preceded monologue. (correct)
36. Any unit of information may change its status as the ____________________ proceeds.

(discourse)

37. There is a degree of _____________________ in identifying a stretch of language as discourse.

(subjectivity)

38. Spoken discourse is less planned and orderly in a conversation. (correct)
39. Language teaching divides discourse into ___________ major categories. (two)
40. A sensation stimulated by key words or phrases in the text, or by the context, activates a knowledge schema and uses it to make sense of the discourse. (incorrect)
41. Turn-taking and interaction are among the _________________ communicative skills. (first)
42. It is a kind of representation of typical situation used in discourse processing to predict the content of the particular situation. (Mental)
43. Language class ____________________ prepares students for the real life situations. (hardly)