Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?

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1. 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. Toni Morrison

2. 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 Powell

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

3. 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

4. ______________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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. The term used for non-linguistic aspects of speaking is: ___________?

   A. Metalanguage
   B. Paralanguage
   C. Protalanguage
   D. None of These

   Submitted by: Syed Ali Hyder Shah

10. 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