ENG523 Final Term MCQs by Sir Zahid

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ENG523 FINAL TERM MCQS 2023-2024

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Q1. The language of science is a multimedia ______ or, more precisely, a multimodal semiotic system.

1. language
2. rhetoric
3. coherence
4. semiotics

Correct: D. semiotics

Explanation: Jay L. Lemke describes science language as a "multimodal semiotic system".

Q2. Conversational experience and social context of language development is mediated by cognitive structures is known as ______ approach.

1. sociocognitive
2. noncognitive
3. structuralist
4. cognitive

Correct: A. sociocognitive

Explanation: Sociocognitive approach connects discourse and social structures via cognitive means.

Q3. Cultural anthropologists study the diversity of human cultures and ______ around the world.

1. minds
2. languages
3. attitudes
4. societies

Correct: B. languages

Explanation: Cultural anthropologists analyze how culture and language vary across human populations.

Q4. Interactional sociolinguistics deals with the existence of subtle ______ in the systematic combination of verbal and non-verbal signs.

1. cultural differences
2. behavioral differences
3. racial differences
4. all the given options

Correct: A. cultural differences

Explanation: It focuses on subtle cultural variations in verbal/non-verbal communication.

Q5. The ______ research involves work in political science and to some degree in cultural studies.

1. sociolinguistic
2. quantitative
3. non–linguistic
4. qualitative

Correct: D. qualitative

Explanation: Qualitative research, especially in discourse analysis, includes political and cultural studies.

Q6. Who argues that CDA should not be seen as a method but as a form of critically driven theory and practice?

1. Wilson Smith
2. Wodak and Meyer
3. Lakoff and Johnson
4. Van Dijk

Correct: D. Van Dijk

Explanation: Van Dijk emphasized CDA as a form of critical theory, not just methodology.

Q7. The term that involves variation and style in the media or a close analysis of language is ______.

1. discourse analysis
2. sociolinguistic
3. non-linguistic
4. analytic approach

Correct: A. discourse analysis

Explanation: Discourse analysis involves detailed study of media language and style.

Q8. Which of these is not a type of linguistics?

1. Historical
2. Comparative
3. Personal
4. Synchronic

Correct: C. Personal

Explanation: Personal linguistics is not recognized; others are established branches of linguistics.

Q9. The study of how linguistics varies from one place to the next and one speaker to the next is called ______.

1. linguistic typology
2. comparative linguistics
3. sociolinguistics
4. ethno–linguistics

Correct: C. sociolinguistics

Explanation: Sociolinguistics studies variation across regions and social groups.