The term semiotics was introduced by______________?

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1. Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?

   A. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.
   B. All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.
   C. All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

2. Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?

   A. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.
   B. All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.
   C. All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.
   D. All linguistics is related to history, and therefore the meaning of linguistics relies exclusively on historical context.

3. The term semiology was introduced by_____________?

   A. Charles Sanders Pierce
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. Edward Sapir

4. 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

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

5. __________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of language in concrete situations’

   A. Performance
   B. Parole
   C. Paradigmatic
   D. N. O. T

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

6. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time

   A. Synchrony
   B. Diachrony
   C. Paradigmatic
   D. N. O. T

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

7. In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term ’willing suspension of disbelief’ in 1817 ?

   A. Kubla Khan
   B. Biographia Literaria
   C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
   D. Christabel

8. Who introduced in linguistics the concept of Competence and Performance ?

   A. Charles Sanders Pierce
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. Edward Sapir

9. Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure’s Langue and Parole ?

   A. Charles Sanders Pierce
   B. Leonard bloom FileD.
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. Edward Sapir

10. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

    A. Both b and c
    B. Diachrony/Synchrony
    C. Acceptable/Unacceptable
    D. N. O. T

    Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo