Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?

   A. Productivity
   B. Langue
   C. Paradigmatic
   D. Parole

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3. 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 . . . “

4. 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 …”

5. I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking ?

   A. Brown
   B. Brom Bones
   C. Rip
   D. Dupin

6. According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century,” which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?

   A. Genteel
   B. Symbolist
   C. Impressionist
   D. Decadent

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

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

8. 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.

9. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?

   A. Sassure
   B. Enoch Powel
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. None of these

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10. The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?

    A. Sociolinguistics
    B. Psycholinguisctics
    C. Biolinguistics
    D. None of these

    Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo