Human beings can talk about experiences, objects and events which are not present at the time and place of speaking. This property of language is called______________ ?

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1. Language is never statiC. It goes on changing. This property of language is called______________ ?

   A. Dynamic
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. TransferencE

2. It is possible to write down spoken language and read aloud the written material. This property of language is called______________ ?

   A. Duality of structure
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. Transference.

3. Human language is structured at the levels of phonemes and morphemes and at the level of words. This property of language is called_______________?

   A. Duality of structure
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. TransferencE.

4. Using a finite set of rules a speaker can produce innumerable grammatical utterances. This property of language is called______________?

   A. Duality of structure
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. TransferencE

5. Which among the following implies the actual meaningful utterance of the individual speaking or writing a given language ?

   A. Language
   B. Parole
   C. performance
   D. Both parole and performance

6. My present business,” continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, “is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my [relative].” … There was a sudden and general movement in the room, which Robin interpreted as expressing the eagerness of each individual to become his guide. This passage exemplifies____________?

   A. Jamming
   B. Ambiguity
   C. Snaring
   D. Foregrounding

7. Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others ?

   A. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble
   B. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
   C. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
   D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . “

8. Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others? A. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk______________?

   B. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
   C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
   D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage …”

9. The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer ?

   A. Martin Luther
   B. John Calvin
   C. Henry VIII
   D. Arminius

10. The turbulent years of the 14th century witnessed a blending of language and culture that led to the rise of Middle English. Which of the following events led to the nickname “the era of catastrophes” ?

    A. The Hundred Years War
    B. The Great Schism
    C. The Black Plague
    D. All of these answers