A. Cleanth Brooks
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Karl Marx
D. Toni Morrison
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
A. Cleanth Brooks
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Karl Marx
D. Sigmund Freud - Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker’s linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdenand De Sassure
C. Leon Battista Alberti
D. Enoch PowellSubmitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo
- John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is most similar in linguistic style to what books from “Paradise Lost” ?
A. Three and Four
B. Five and Six
C. Eight and Nine
D. Eleven and Twelve - ______________refers to the linguistic norm specific to a geographical area, social class or status affecting mutual intelligibility ?
A. Dialect
B. Idiolect
C. Register
D. Slang - Phonemes which effect meaning change in the same linguistic environment are said to be in ____________?
A. Contrastive distribution
B. Complementary distribution
C. Non__contrastive distribution
D. None of the abovE. - The phonemes which do not occur in the same linguistic environment and which when occur so, do not bring about a change in meaning are said to be in __________?
A. Complementary distribution
B. Contrastive distribution
C. Non__complementary distribution
D. None of the abovE. - Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells - Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells - The term used for non-linguistic aspects of speaking is: ___________?
A. Metalanguage
B. Paralanguage
C. Protalanguage
D. None of TheseSubmitted by: Syed Ali Hyder Shah
- His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants