Ch 1 Invitation to linguistics

By ___ we mean language is resourceful because of its duality and recursiveness.

• arbitrariness

• conventionality

• creativity

• displacement

Idioms are products of ___ of language.

• conventionality

• arbitrariness

• creativity

• duality

"I can refer to Confucius even though he was dead 2,000 years ago." This shows that language has the design feature of ___.

• arbitrariness

• creativity

• duality

• displacement

___ investigates the interrelation of language and mind, in processing and producing utterances and in language acquisition.

• Psycholinguistics

• Sociolinguistics

• Anthropological linguistics

• Computational linguistics

Human language is ___. This refers to the fact that there is no logical or intrinsic connection between a particular sound and the meaning it is associated with.

• dual

• arbitrary

• creative

• conventional

If a linguist tells people "what should be in language" or "what people should say", he is ___.

• directive

• descriptive

• expressive

• prescriptive

The most important sociological use of language is the ___ function by which people establish and maintain their status in a society.

• performative

• interpersonal

• phatic

• metalingual

___ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.

• Langue

• Competence

• Communicative competence

• Parole

"I hereby declare the starting of the war" reflects the ___ function of language.

• informative

• interpersonal

• performative

• emotive

A language user's underlying knowledge about the system of rules is called his linguistics ___.

• comprehension

• performance

• perception

• competence