ENG503 Final Term Quiz from Assessments

ENG503

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Maha Malik Introduction to ELT

1. In thematic roles the entity for whose benefit the action was performed is known as_______.

(beneficiary)

2. ‘Crown’ for ‘royalty’ is an example of ____. (metonymy)
3. In linguistics,________ , are words which sound alike or are spelled alike, but have different meanings. (Homonyms)
4. Semantic/Thematic roles were introduced in generative grammar during the mid 1960s and early 1970s and are also called ______ roles, ______ roles, semantic cases and deep cases.

(participant, theta)

Q5. Is the following correct or incorrect?

Words with very closely related/similar meanings are called antonyms. (Incorrect)

Q6. Is the following correct or incorrect?

A relation of inclusion; a hyponym includes the meaning of a more general word, e.g., dog and cat are hyponyms of animal. (Correct)

Q7. Is the following correct or incorrect?

Such a relationship between opposites where the positive of one term does not necessarily imply the negative of the other, for example rich/poor, is known as gradable antonym. (Correct)

8. Thematic roles were introduced in _____ grammar during the mid 1906s and early 1970s

(generative)

9. Is the following correct or incorrect? One word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. E.g., ‘crown’ for ‘royalty’ is an example of metonymy. (correct)
10. Is the following correct or incorrect? A collocation is made up of two or more words that are commonly used together in English. E.g., ‘close a deal’, ‘open an account.’ (correct)
11. ‘Close a deal’, ‘open an account’ are examples of _____. (collocation)
12. According to Searle (1976), all speech acts fall into _____ main types. (five)
13. The branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used is called ______. (pragmatics)
14. Relationship between the linguistic form and communicative function is of central interest in _____. (pragmatics)
15. Use of one form with its asserted meaning is conventionally interpreted with the presupposition that another (non-asserted) meaning is also understood. This is the definition of which kind of presupposition? (Lexical)

Q16. Is the following correct or incorrect?

Pragmatics cannot vary from culture to culture. (Incorrect)

17. An act by which a speaker (or writer) uses language to enable a listener (or reader) to identify
18. Is the following correct or incorrect? Pragmatics is the study of invisible meaning, or how we recognize what is meant even when it isn’t actually said or written. (correct)
19. It is the assumption of the existence of entities named/committed by the speaker. It is:

(Existential Presupposition)

Q20. Which of the following kind of deixis indicate the relative location of people and things?

(Spatial Deixis)

21. Which of the following covers the family of verbs such as “imply‟, “suggest‟, “mean‟ - meaning of an utterance as understood in a given context? (Implicature)
22. It is associated with specific words and result in additionally conveyed meanings when those words are used. E.g., but, even, yet, and. It is: (Conventional Implicature)
23. Which of the following theories generally refer to the idea of being tactful, modest and nice to other people? (Politeness Theory)

Q24. Is the following correct or incorrect?

Speech acts are defined as what actions we perform when we produce utterances. (correct)

Q25. Is the following correct or incorrect?

According to Austin, there are three part system for describing a speech act. (correct)

26. Which of the following is an umbrella term for the principles or general norms that sound like a rule of etiquette or a guide to our conversation and good social behavior? (Cooperative

Principle)

27. Him, them, those, Khan, Qureshi, etc. are the examples of ____. (person deixis)
28. An act by which a speaker (or writer) uses language to enable a listener (or reader) to identify
29. Is the following correct or incorrect? Under politeness theory, there is a positive and a negative face. (correct)
30. Variety is a neutral term, and it DOES NOT refer to which kind of language? (Speech act)
31. A word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning is called_____. (anaphoric

reference)

32. The process by which bilingual/multilingual speakers introduce words from one language into another language is called ______. (Borrowing)
33. A variety or lect which is thought of as being related to its speaker‘s social background rather than geographical background is called _____. (Sociolect)

Q34. Is the following correct or incorrect?

Variation in language is useful to avoid prejudging the issue of whether a given entity is “a language‟ or “a dialect‟. (Correct)

35. According to which of the following is variety of language “a set of linguistic items with similar social distribution‟? (Hudson)