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WorksheetsELT REVIEW EXAM
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
A system of structurally related elements for the coding of meaning.
Structuralist
Cognitivist
Functionalist
Language is a _____ or _____ set of sentences.
Finite and Infinite
Structuralist and Cognitivist
Universal and Dynamic
Arbitary and Creative
Language structures by appealing to general psychological processes of cognition
Cognitivist
Functionalist
Structioralist
Language structures by appealing to the communicative function of those structures and emphasizes the meaning and functions rather than structure.
Structuralist
Functionalist
Cognitivist
Language is primarily made up of vocal sounds produced by the speech apparatus in the human body. It is closer to speech than writing.
Vocal
Creative
Arbitary
Universal
"I'm breaking up with you."
Commissives
Declarations
Representatives
Expressives
Language is defined based on three major perspectives.
Structuralist, Cognitivist, and Functionalist
Quality, Quantity, and Manner
Creative, Universal, and Dynamic
Referential, Emotive, and Conative
Words and their meanings have no inherent correspondence. The assignment of form and meaning is largely, but not necessarily, random.
Arbitary
System of Systems
Means of Communication
Dynamic
Sounds, words, and phrases are arranged in systematic order to form meaningful units.
Means of Communication
System of Sytems
Arbitary
Vocal
All languages share key features. Language parameters and principles are considered universal.
Dynamic
Universal
Means of Communication
Arbitary
Concerns the CONTEXT of the language. It focused on the description or contextual information of utterances.
Referential Function
Illocutionary Act
Emotive Function
Locutionary Act
Its primary purpose is to attract/establish, prolong, check, confirm, or discontinue the “contact” between the interlocutors.
Conative
Phatic
Referential
Metalinguistics
It concerns with the MESSAGE and how it is delivered or deals with the beauty and creativity in linguistic expressions.
Emotive
Poetic or Aesthetics
Referential
Conative
Identify which is a linguistic
Linguists study languages analytically and methodically with the aim to understand their levels
Linguistics is simply the scientific study of language
Linguistics describes the structure of language, explains the common mistakes and errors, explains how these mistakes and errors eventually become acceptable
Linguistics is not concerned with evaluating language in use. Linguistics do not create an analytical theory for the study of literature
"I'm so sorry, but I don't feel the same way you do."
Directives
Expressives
Declarations
Representatives
Identify which is not a linguistics
Linguistics is simply the scientific study of language.
Linguistics aims to understand how the language faculty of the mind works and to describe how language itself works.
Linguists observe patterns within a language and across languages to try to understand what principles drive our production of language.
Linguistics describes the structure of language, explains the common mistakes and errors, explains how these mistakes and errors eventually become acceptable.
Identify which is a linguistics
Linguists study languages analytically and methodically with the aim to understand their levels, not to learn to speak them.
Linguistics aims to understand how the language faculty of the mind works and to describe how language itself works.
Linguistics is not to be viewed as a study of history associated with languages.
Linguistics describe the facts of utterances, not the aesthetic and moral values.
Which of these does not EXPLAIN what linguistics is all about?
• Comparative Philology
• The learning of many languages or Polyglotism
• Literary Criticism
• Traditional Study of Grammar
• Referential Function
• Conative Function
• Metalinguistics Function
• To compare
• Critics
• Grammar
It focuses on the significance and interpretation of language within (semantics) and outside (pragmatics) its structure.
Theoretical Linguistics
Microlinguistics
Macrolinguistics
Applied Linguistics
It describe language by systematically recording and analyzing the endlessly changing ways people speak and write.
Metalinguistics
Descriptive Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
MicroLinguistics
It deals with the analysis of specific linguistic data such as sounds, words, and structures.
Macrolinguistics
Microlinguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
Prescriptive Linguistics
It concerns with how language should be used.
Applied Linguistics
Prescriptive Linguistics
Descriptive Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It's a branch of linguistics that deals with the study of the use of the language in context.
Syntax
Pragmatics
Semantics
Microlinguistics
Conversation should be relevant.
Quantity
Relation
Manner
Quality
It pointed out that out that an utterance can imply a proposition that is not part of the utterance and does not follow as a necessary consequence of the utterance.
Speech Acts
Implicature
Cooperative Principle
Flouting
Mae: ‘’Would you like to go to my party tonight?‘’
James: Well, tonight is actually my brother’s birthday.
Maxim of Manner
Implicature
Maxim of Quality
Maxim of Quantity
Jen: I really like studying math.
Gel: I like to sleep in math classes.
Maxim of Quality
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of Relation
Implicature
Conversation should be informative.
Relation
Quantity
Quality
Manner
Conversation should be true.
Quantity
Quality
Manner
Relation
It's a system of symbols that functions as means of human communication.
Language
Nature of Language
Linguistics
Structuralist Perspective
Conversation should be clear.
Relation
Manner
Quality
Quantity
It's used to describe the intentional violation of a maxim for a purpose of conveying an unstated proposition.
Cooperative Principle
Flouting
Quality
Implicature
Christian Jay: Have you eaten?
Michelle: Yes, I just had adobo for lunch. How about you, have you eaten?
Relation
Quantity
Quality
Manner
Kenna: How much do you earn?
Kent: Well, I earn enough to get by.
Relation
Quality
Quantity
Manner
Christian Jay: I drove my car and went to Baguio from Davao yesterday, and I got home early in the morning.
Marlon: Wow, really? Then, I rode my bike and went to Mexico last week.
Manner
Quality
Quantity
Relation
It concerns with CODE or terms used to refer to language features or elements.
Emotive
Metalinguistics
Conative
Poetic or Aesthetics
“I expect your contributions to be genuine and not spurious. If I need sugar as an ingredient in the cake you are assisting me to make, I do not expect you to hand me salt; if I need a spoon, I do not expect a trick spoon made of rubber.”
Relation
Quality
Quantity
Manner
“Keep walking straight until you reach the intersection, and then turn right.”
Relation
Quantity
Quality
Manner
When a maxim is violated...
we interpret what we hear as if it conforms to these maxims.
we draw inferences which makes the utterance conform to these maxims
describe the intentional violation of a maxim for a purpose of conveying an unstated proposition.
Waitress: How would you like your steak to be cooked ma’am?
Daryl: I want it Medium rare.
Relation
Manner
Quality
Quantity
“I expect a partner’s contribution to be appropriate to the immediate needs at each stage of the transaction. If I am mixing ingredients for a cake, I do not expect to be handed a good book, or even an oven cloth."
Relation
Quantity
Manner
Quality
Kendra: What do you think about James?
Jane: Well, I think his apartment is nice.
Relation
Quality
Manner
Quantity
A linguistic principle which states that interlocutors cooperate as they converse.
Speech Acts
Cooperative Principle
Semantics
Metalinguistics
Erjon: What do you think of this restaurant?
Mae: Very fancy.
Relation
Manner
Quality
Quantity
The act of simply uttering a meaningful sentence.
Perlocutionary Act
Illocutionary Act
Locutionary Act
What the speaker DOES in uttering a sentence.
Locutionary
Illocutionary
Perlocutionary
The act is an action or state of mind brought about by, or as a consequence of, saying something.
Illocutionary
Locutionary
Perlocutionary
"It's very cold inside"
Locutionary
Illocutionary
Perlocutionary
Stewie: What do you like about it specifically?! Pick something or I'll blow your brains out!
Peter: I like... how it looks like an owl.
Perlocutionary
Illocutionary
Locutionary
Directives
"I was born a Filipino, I will live as a Filipino, I will die as a Filipino."
Locutionary
Perlocutionary
Illocutionary
Commit the speaker (in varying degrees) to something's being the case, to the truth of the expressed proposition.
Commissives
Representatives
Expressives
Declarations
The speaker to get the hearer to do something.
Representatives
Directives
Commissives
Expressives
To commit the speaker to do something in the future.
Expressives
Commissives
Representatives
Directives
To express the psychological state of the speaker.
Representatives
Expressives
Directives
Declarations
This act brings about the correspondence between the propositional content and reality.
Commissives
Declarations
Representatives
Directives
Marlon: Mae is very pretty. I think I have a crush on her.
Jay: But I don’t think you have a chance because she is very studious too.
Marlon: It’s okay. Look! Mae’s best friend is pretty too.
Declarations
Directives
Representatives
Commissives
"He was a psychopath"
Expressives
Representatives
Declarations
Directives
"Do you have any spare change, sir?"
Expressives
Directives
Representatives
Declarations
"Let's play Valorant after the exams are over."
Declarations
Commissives
Directives
Expressives
Marlon: Can you please grab my Aquaflask in my room Mae?
Quantity
Quality
Manner
Relation
