Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language ?

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1. Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language ?

   A. Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons.
   B. Language can include socioideological contradictions from the past.
   C. Language exhibits and is bound up in the social lives and historical context of the people who speak it.
   D. Language is loaded with the intentions of others.

2. Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?

   A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.
   B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.
   C. Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
   D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent.

3. Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?

   A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.
   B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.
   C. Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
   D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent.

4. Which of the following statements accurately reflects the status of England, its people, and its language in the early sixteenth century ?

   A. English travelers were not obliged to learn French, Italian, or Spanish during their explorations of the Continent.
   B. English was fast supplanting Latin as the second language of most European intellectuals.
   C. English travelers often returned from the Continent with foreign fashions, much to the delight of moralists.
   D. Intending his Utopia for an international intellectual community, Thomas More wrote in Latin, since English had no prestige outside of England.

5. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of “Paradise Lost” that that goal of his epic poem will be ?

    A. to justify the ways of God to humankind.
    B. to justify the ways of humankind to God.
    C. to justify the ways of Heaven to Hell.
    D. to justify the ways of Hell to Heaven.