What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?

   A. A language about another language
   B. A supernatural language
   C. A language that does not yet constitute a real language
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

2. Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?

   A. Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.
   B. Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.
   C. Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.
   D. Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.

3. According to Dante, what does the term “gramatica” mean ?

   A. It is static language with unchanging rules.
   B. It is the language spoken by everyday people.
   C. It is the only kind of illustrious vernacular.
   D. It is synonymous with natural language.

4. Let me for a few moments turn your attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, and, with but few exceptions, we shall find them as follows: the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world – a complete place of prodigality and prostitution. What does “prodigality” mean ?

   A. Wasteful extravagance
   B. Promiscuity
   C. Return from the dead
   D. Redemption

5. 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

6. What does the term “renaissance” mean ?

   A. Death
   B. Theater
   C. Drama
   D. Rebirth

7. What does the term “translatio studii” mean ?

   A. The ability to move from purgatory into heaven
   B. The translation of culture from one civilization to another
   C. The movement from one circle of hell to another
   D. The idea that the punishment fits the crime

8. What does the critical term ’esemplatic’ mean ?

   A. The unifying power
   B. Ability to coin new word
   C. Power of imagination
   D. Negative capability

9. What does the term “monasticism” mean ?

   A. it describes the importance of communication with others in order to reach salvation
   B. it describes a form of worship based on praying to devotional art
   C. it describes a way of life that became popular after the Middle Ages
   D. Non of these

10. What does the term “passing” mean ?

    A. The ability of an African American to live as a White person.
    B. To do well on one’s schoolwork.
    C. To leave one’s past behind.
    D. To gain approval from one’s community.