THEORY RK 1 (76 question)

How do linguists understand language to be?

• Human

• Innate

• universal and learned

• analytic

• book

What are the main functions of a language?

• Communicative function: Conveys new information.

• Phatic function: Maintains social relations (e.g., greetings).

• Metalinguistic function: Explains language rules using language itself.

• Functional similarity (e.g., noun determiners: “a, the, some”).

• Semantic (e.g., “a book to read” = “a book for reading”).

What is a 'phatic' function of a language?

• Conveys new information.

• explains language rules by means of the language itself

• social relations (as in greetings or talk about the weather)

• They express grammatical relationships.

What is a 'metalinguistic' function of a language?

• Conveys new information.

• explains language rules by means of the language itself

• social relations (as in greetings or talk about the weather)

• They express grammatical relationships.

How are language rules explained as a 'metalinguistic' function?

• by means of the language itself

• To change the form of the same very word

• They can function independently.

What are the main properties of linguistic signs?

• They are informative and meaningful.

• They involve sequences of sounds representing objects, events, and abstractions.

• They express grammatical relationships

• They do not carry lexical meaning.

'Language is a system of communication by speaking, writing, or making signs' according to…

• Noam Chomsky

• Cambridge Dictionary

• Leonard Bloomfield

• R. L. Trask

Who determined the distinction between language and speech?

• Noam Chomsky

• R. L. Trask

• Leonard Bloomfield

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Who stated that 'a human language is the distinctive quality of mind'?

• Noam Chomsky

• R. L. Trask

• Leonard Bloomfield

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Language is 'what makes us human', according to…

• Noam Chomsky

• R. L. Trask

• Leonard Bloomfield

• Ferdinand de Saussure