WorksheetsINTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS QUIZ #1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Linguistics focuses on
the study of world languages
the rules and conventions of language
English phonetics
the scientific study of language
He considers language as a set of culturally transmitted behavior patterns shared by a group of individuals.
Charles Fries
Malinowski
Joseph Greenberg
Oller
He believed that speech is language and the written is just a secondary reflection of the language.
Searle & Austin
Malinowski
Joseph Greenberg
Charles Fries
He believed that language has two elements, the cognitive and emotive or affective.
Malinowski
Joseph Greenberg
Oller
Charles Fries
Its function is creating stories, games and new linguistic play including poems, rhymes, riddles not necessarily about anything at all.
Representational Function
Imaginative Function
Heuristic Function
Regulatory Function
Its function is to get along with others to include or exclude.
Representational Function
Interactional Function
Heuristic Function
Regulatory Function
Its function is to seek and learn using language to explore one’s environment.
Representational Function
Interactional Function
Heuristic Function
Regulatory Function
Its function is to communicate information and convey a message with specific reference to the processes, objects and relations of the real world with him/her.
Representational Function
Interactional Function
Heuristic Function
Regulatory Function
Language can be described in terms of observable and verifiable data as it is being used
Structuralist's View
Transformationalist's View
Functionalist's View
Interactionalist's View
Language is a tool for creating and maintaining social interactions through conversations.
Structuralist's Views
Transformationalist's View
Functionalist's View
Interactionalist's View
Language is a dynamic system through which members of a community exchange information
Structuralist's Views
Transformationalist's View
Functionalist's View
Interactionalist's View
These are points in an argument that a writer takes for granted and do not prove with evidence/s.
Experience
Senses
Assumptions
Prior Knowledge
All of us have a large store of information- “everybody knows” that we apply to new situations and problems: it usually reflects the simplest way of looking at things.
Prior Knowledge
Conventional Wisdom
Senses
Experiences
Whether we like it or not, each one of us sometimes injects what is best for ourselves into our decisions.
Values
Emotions
Self Interest
Experiences
1. Language is a set of symbols/words based or determined by individual preference.
TRUE
FALSE
Language is utilized for communication.
TRUE
FALSE
Meaning are in words not in people.
TRUE
FALSE
Language is based on oral and aural system.
TRUE
FALSE
Language is essential only for human beings.
TRUE
FALSE
The culture that we grew up, in the culture we have adopted, the predominant culture in the society – all have their effects on us, and push us into thinking in particular ways.
TRUE
FALSE
