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Тест ::: B11 Філологія ОНП Поліпарадигмальність іншомовних дискурсів (англ.)
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Дата генерації: 20.08.2025
Тема :: Topic
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The lexico-grammatical category that reflects the human division of the world into animate and inanimate is ...
- definiteness/indefiniteness
- animateness/inanimateness
- countability/uncountability
- transitivity/non-transitivity
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Scientific research as an enquiry can be called systematic if ... .
- it has a review of literature
- it has an implicit rationale
- it is carried out with a deliberately chosen methodology
- it is always based on modelling
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Each phonetic style is characterized by ... .
- specific combination of segmental and prosodic features
- morphemes
- intonemes
- lexemes
- phonemes
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
By the time he had got all the bottles and dishes and knives and forks and glasses and plates and spoons and things piled up on big trays, he was getting very hot, and red in the face, and annoyed.
- Asyndeton
- Inversion
- Polysyndeton
- Detachment
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The grammatical categories of the Old English noun are ... .
- person, number, case
- gender, number, case
- case, number
- aspect, person, number
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What statement is incorrect?
- Hugo Schuchgardt was the founder of “The school of words and things”
- Hugo Schuchgardt created his own linguistic theory, that was named after him
- The works of Hugo Schuchgardt influenced the emergence of new branch in linguistics - onomasiology
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The suffix – ward(s) found in the word "downwards" is a(n) ... .
- verb-forming suffix
- adjective-forming suffix
- adverb-forming suffix
- noun-forming suffix
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Which is NOT a characteristic of a paradigm in linguistics?
- a paradigm is a cumulative system of knowledge
- a paradigm is limited in the period of its use
- a paradigm exists within the boundaries of a certain branch of linguistics
- a paradigm is a pattern to follow in linguistic theories
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We have shown that current English is considerably more simple and … than the English of 50 years ago.
- quantitative
- succinct
- successful
- regressive
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The transition of word-forms to the class of adverbs is
- adverbialization
- adjectivation
- substantivation
- attribution
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
Dr Johnson drank his tea in oceans.
- Hyperbole
- Meiosis
- Oxymoron
- Litotes
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Figurative signs in which the signified and the signifier are related by similarity are called ...
- figures
- indices
- icons
- symbols
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Sentences, the predicative core of which is represented by two positions - subject and predicate - are
- two-member sentences
- unextended sentences
- one-membersentences
- complete sentences
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Participle I (present participle) is fully homonymous with ...
- the adjective
- the verb
- the gerund
- the Participle II (past participle)
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This paper begins with a/an ... of the literature on patient communication.
- data
- archives
- review
- abstract
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The early Old English period began with ... .
- the introduction of book printing
- the introduction of Christianity
- the Germanic Conquest of Britain
- the Norman Conquest of Britain
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The discourse theory is NOT concerned with ... .
- the use of verbal and non-verbal signs
- the interaction of communicants in the socio-cultural context
- the formation of ideas and beliefs
- the language structure
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RP is based on ... .
- Southern type of pronunciation
- Northern type of pronunciation
- Irish type of pronunciation
- Scottish type of pronunciation
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Research which is directed towards finding information that has a broad base of applications is called ... .
- descriptive
- conceptual
- fundamental
- applied
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A lexicological grouping in which the words are grouped according to the root-morpheme is called a ... .
- thematic group
- semantic field
- word-family
- lexico-grammatical group
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The representatives of “The Gilliéron School of Linguistic Geography” introduced the notion of isoglosses, which can be defined as ... .
- the lines which mark out regions that have different linguistic features
- the lines which mark out countries where people speak the same language
- the lines which mark out regions that have common linguistic features
- the lines which mark out countries where people speak different languages
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The most important features of a sentence as a syntactic unit are its ...
- structure and meaning
- predicativity and modality
- paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations
- prosodic variables
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Scientific research is defined as ... .
- theorizing, experimentation, innovation
- diligent and systematic enquiry in order to discover new facts
- organised body of objective knowledge
- useless “ivory tower” activities
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cf Smith (2022) for a different approach to this topic. "cf" stands for ...
- compare
- see footnote
- that is
- note carefully
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Semiosis explains ... .
- the communicative process
- any form of verbal and nonverbal activity
- the process which involves signs in meaning-making
- the relationship between the language and its users
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
Mrs. Dave Dyer, a sallow woman with a thin prettiness, devoted to experiments in religious cults, illnesses, and scandalbearing, shook her finger at Carol.
- Synecdoche
- Periphrasis
- Zeugma
- Pun
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Word-groups with a completely changed meaning, demotivated, their meaning cannot be deduced from the meanings of the constituent parts, are called ... .
- free word-groups
- phraseological combinations
- phraseological fusions
- phraseological unities
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The morphological class of Middle English verbs that became more numerous is the group of ... .
- strong verbs
- weak verbs
- preterite-presents
- irregular verbs
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The study of speech sounds and their physiological production and acoustic qualities is called ...
- orthography
- orthoepy
- phonetics
- phonology
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According to its internal structure, the language system belongs to heterogeneous systems, which consist of a certain number of ...
- levels
- rows
- schemes
- related signs
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
Across the country we went like the wind followed by a couple of black cars full of moustaches.
- Metonymy
- Irony
- Epithet
- Metaphor
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The genealogical classification of languages is based on
- comparative-historical method
- method of scientific analysis
- method of structural analysis
- functional method
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The term “scientific paradigm” suggests that ... .
- basic assumptions that shape science are ethnocentric
- some accepted examples of actual scientific practice provide models for particular traditions of research
- scientists actually solve puzzles
- science is driven by commercial and military interests
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The philosophical basis of the cognitive-communicative approach in linguistics is the idea that ... .
- the meaning is implemented in the text structure
- language is used to explain world phenomena
- the world is not reflected, but interpreted
- all philosophical issues can be solved by paying closer attention to language
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The main components of the actual division of a sentence are ...
- direct and indirect objects
- the active voice and the passive voice
- the subject and the predicate
- the theme and the rheme
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“The School of aesthetic idealism” was founded by ... .
- Karl Vossler
- Berthold Delbrück
- Herbert Steintal
- Filippo Sassetti
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What type of word-formation does the word "brunch" illustrate?
- blending
- derivation
- affixation
- compounding
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To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit by acknowledging your source … you use another person’s idea, opinion, or theory.
- whoever
- whenever
- whichever
- whosever
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... deals with the larger units of connected speech: syllables, words, phrases and texts.
- Suprasegmental phonetics
- Normative phonetics
- Theoretical phonetics
- Segmental phonetics
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The Norman Conquest of 1066 brought the ... language to Britain.
- Dutch
- German
- French
- Welsh
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Anthropocentrism in linguistics focuses on ... .
- the role of the language in the human activity
- the human activity within the language use
- the expansion of the human activity to the language use
- the explanation of linguistic phenomena by humans
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Expressive, mostly ironical words which sound somewhat vulgar, cynical and harsh, aiming to show the object of speech in the light of an off-hand contemptuous ridicule are called ... .
- jargonisms
- poetic words
- slang words
- neologisms
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The relations that arise between consecutive elements in their direct combination with each other in the stream of speech or in the text are ...
- meronymic
- syntagmatic
- paradigmatic
- derivational
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"You are joking, eh? So you knew about it before?" exemplify ... questions.
- pronominal
- tag
- suggestive
- echo
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Which phonetic phenomenon does the sentence "Mary is a good-looking girl" illustrate?
- lateral plosion
- nasal plosion
- fricative plosion
- loss of plosion
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The lesson starts with a discussion about how to … data and different methods to use.
- collect
- collectivise
- articulate
- accomplish
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The English language is ... in origin.
- West Germanic
- East Germanic
- North Germanic
- Celtic
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
- Assonance
- Alliteration
- Graphon
- Periphrasis
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Find the incorrect statement:
- According to the Sociological Trend in Linguistics, the main function of language is communicative
- According to The Sociological Trend in Linguistics, language is a system of signs
- According to The Sociological Trend in Linguistics, language is the tool of thought creation
- According to The Sociological Trend in Linguistics, language can not be viewed synchronically
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The extent to which a study establishes a trustworthy cause-and-effect relationship between a treatment and an outcome is called a(n) ... .
- internal validity
- false validity
- critical validity
- external validity
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The most important features of a sentence as a syntactic unit are the following:
- predicativeness and modality
- structure and significance
- paradigmaticity and syntagmaticity
- coherence and cohision
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
He was a shy man, unable to look me in the eye.
- Hyperbole
- Simile
- Synecdoche
- Personification
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Words that are kindred both in sound form and meaning and therefore liable to be mixed but different in meaning and usage and therefore only mistakenly interchanged are called ...
- antonyms
- paronyms
- synonyms
- homonyms
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Which word does not fit the sentence?
"The evidence ... a different conclusion".
- points to
- suggests
- supports
- emerges
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Functionalism in linguistics is concerned with ... .
- the functional styles
- the syntagmatic textual analysis
- the functions performed by language in terms of cognition, expression, and conation
- the theme and rheme analysis
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Articulation of speech sounds, which consists in additional raising of the back of the tongue to the hard palate, is ...
- labialization
- palatalization
- velarization
- aspiration
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Lexically non-independent words that do not have a nominative function in the language (they do not name objects, properties or relations) and express different semantic and syntactic relations between words, sentences, and parts of sentences are called ...
- function words
- service words
- quasi-words
- dependent words
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The words or phrases of other authors used in academic writing to illustrate a point are called ... .
- elicitation
- citations
- sound bite
- quiz
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The Old English period is marked by ... .
- an entirely uniform language
- a dialectal diversity
- the rise of Standard English
- the formation of a literary norm
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Find the incorrect statement:
- according to “The Port-Royal Grammar”, the grammar must be general universal and logical, people have the same thinking and logic that’s why the grammar should be only one
- each language has its own grammar
- The Port-Royal Grammar became used as a standard textbook in the study of language until the early 19th century
- "General and Rational Grammar, containing the fundamentals of the art of speaking, explained in a clear and natural manner" was published in 1660 by Antoine Arnauld and Claude Lancelot
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The Common case that appeared in Middle English is the result of merging of Old English cases: ... .
- Nominative, Dative, and Accusative
- Nominative, Dative, and Genitive
- Dative, Genitive, and Accusative
- Nominative, Accusative, and Genitive
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Phraseological fusions are ...
- literally interpreted word-groups
- completely non-motivated word-groups
- partially motivated word-groups
- motivated word-groups
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Depending on the morpheme structure, all languages are divided into
- agglutinative and inflectional
- root and affixal
- isolating and open
- active and dead
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This method involves generalization of the results of observation, inference from the observed to the unobserved:
- modelling
- method of falsification
- method of induction
- method of deduction
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The infinitive used without the particle “to” is called ...
- an active infinitive
- a split infinitive
- a marked infinitive
- a bare infinitive
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Many experts contend, …, that this evidence is not conclusive.
- however
- gradually
- to start with
- that is why
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Cognitive semiotics studies ... .
- the interaction of signs in meaning-making
- the paradigmatic relations in meaning-making
- the interaction of text and discourse in meaning-making
- the construal of meaning-in-context
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
My dearest daughter, at your feet I fall.
- Suspense
- Ellipsis
- Inversion
- Climax
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Max Müller singled out two phases in the process of language evolution. They are:
- The stage of "language development" and the stage of "language decline"
- The stage of "language generation" and the stage of "language decline"
- The stage of "language emergence" and the stage of "language death"
- The stage of "language birth" and the stage of "language death"
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Segmental units are ... .
- vowels and consonants
- morphemes
- pauses
- word stress
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Prosodic units are ... .
- syllables, accentual units, intonation groups, utterances
- phonemes
- morphemes
- grammatical units
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This fallacy establishes a cause and effect relationship between two actions when, in fact, one action simply precedes the other:
- argumentum ad verecundiam
- argumentum ad hominem
- post hoc fallacy
- a non sequitur
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Which is NOT a paradigm in linguistics?
- system-structural
- functional
- descriptive stylistic
- comparative historical
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You will be given a … when you choose your dissertation topic.
- research student
- senior lecturer
- student counsellor
- supervisor
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
You can take the patriot out of the country but you cannot take the country out of the patriot.
- Euphemism
- Metaphor
- Chiasmus
- Antonomasia
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The method of word formation in which words are formed with the help of affixes attached to the stem is ...
- lexical and syntactic
- morphological
- morphological-syntactic
- syntactic
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The Old English inflectional system is similar to ... .
- modern English
- modern High German
- modern French
- modern Norwegian
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Each language level consists of homogeneous units, which in general comprise ... .
- homogeneous system
- heterogeneous system
- symbiotic system
- convergent system
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... is an example of grammatical cohesion.
- The crime rate is continuing to rise. It’s a national scandal.
- There is some petty crime in our neighbourhood.
- It’s a crime to let that beautiful garden go to ruin.
- It’s criminal to waste so much good food.
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Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Nikolay Krushevsky, and Vasilij Bogoroditsky were representatives of:
- “The Moscow School of Linguistics”
- “The Kazan Linguistic School”
- The Sociological Trend in Linguistics
- The Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School
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Which of the terms is different from the rest?
- indent
- thesis
- heading
- margins
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
A young lady, weeping softly in her mother’s lap:
A: My husband just can’t bear the children.
B: He needn’t bear children, my dear. You shouldn’t expect much of your husband.
- Synecdoche
- Pun
- Periphrasis
- Zeugma
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A system is a coherent unity of interrelated language units. The set of connections and relations between the units of the language system constitutes its ...
- structure
- integrity
- symbiosis
- ambiguity
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The act of presenting the words of another writer as if they were our own is called ... .
- plagiotropism
- plagioclase
- plagiarism
- pliancy
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The form of subordination in "this problem", "these questions" is defined as ... .
- agreement
- overnment
- adjoinment
- enclosure
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Discourse is ... .
- written or spoken communication
- a set of words that is complete in itself
- a set of sounds
- a group of words standing together as a conceptual unit
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Word stress in a language performs three functions ...
- demonstrative, distinctive, and semantic
- perceptual, cognitive, and distinctive
- semantic, morphological, and syntactic
- constitutive, culminative, and distinctive
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Franz Bopp wrote the work ... .
- Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache ... (1816; “On the System of Conjugation in Sanskrit ...”)
- “German Grammar”
- Introduction to the Grammar of the Icelandic and other Ancient Northern Languages
- Introduction to the Grammar of the Romance Languages
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Another name for Old English is ... .
- the period of full endings
- the period of levelled endings
- the period of reduced endings
- the period of lost endings
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Words coined to suit one particular occasion are called ... .
- nonce-words
- vulgarisms
- dialectal words
- professionalisms
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Lexico-morphological way of indicating gender distinctions entails ... .
- a range of sex markers in word combinations (male frog – female frog)
- word formation (god – goddess)
- common dual generic terms (parent, sibling)
- personal dual gender (student, teacher)
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Which of the following is not related to phonology?
- metaphor
- onomatopoeia
- consonance
- rhyme
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
She was not unhappy with him.
- Oxymoron
- Hyperbole
- Meiosis
- Litotes
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Topicality suggests that ... .
- the paper offers a particular view of the unit under study
- the paper deals with the subject of current interest
- the paper furnishes reliable information
- the research theme is outdated
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Social research techniques were applied to … examine the effects of the policy on the poor.
- strongly
- critically
- mainly
- specifically
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In the Old English vocabulary Celtic loans are mostly found among ... .
- words related to religion
- poetic words
- place names
- words related to trade
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Point out a phraseological unit associated with some historical events:
- forbidden fruit is sweet
- vanity fair
- a crooked sixpence
- to rob Peter to pay Paul
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A pragmatic type of utterance by means of which the speaker, if his/her status allows him/her, makes changes in the situation of his/her addressee or assigns him/her any name is ...
- menaсives
- directives
- declaratives
- interrogatives
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Who studied dead (Slavonic), extinct (Polabian language), and living (Lithuanian) languages; created comparative grammar of Slavic languages; distinguished between two principles of classification of languages: genealogical and typological?
- Hugo Schuchardt
- August Schleicher
- Karl Brugmann
- Leonard Bloomfield
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One of the founders of cognitive pragmatics is ... .
- Paul Grice
- Robin Carston
- Peeter Torop
- Aage A. Hansen-Löve
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The famous writer who contributed to the formation of English in the New English period was ... .
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- William Shakespeare
- Aelfric
- William Langland
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"Say it clearly" → "Say it clearly and simply" exemplifies the syntactic process of ... .
- expansion
- extension
- pecification
- complication
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Match the term to the definition: “to make a proposal and support it”.
- to summarise
- to suggest
- to start
- to state
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The representatives of The Sociological Trend in Linguistics were:
- Ferdinand de Saussure, Émile Benveniste, and Joseph Vendryes
- Ferdinand de Saussure, Filippo Sassetti, and Karl Vossler
- Joseph Vendryes, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Jules Gilliéron
- August Schleicher, Karl Moriс Rapp, and Ferdinand de Saussure
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The study of speech as a physical process is ... .
- phonetics
- syntax
- morphology
- pragmatics
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Repeating the same thing in different words is called ...
- anaphora
- anadiplosis
- epiphora
- tautology
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The transformation of a word-combination into a state phraseological unit is
- lexicalization
- grammaticalization
- semanticization
- substantivation
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Denotative meaning is connected with ... .
- individual emotions, values, and feelings
- the literal meaning of a word
- the sentence structure
- the functional style
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Method refers to ... .
- a system of procedures of analysis
- a particular point of view about the nature of research
- the object under study
- the underlying philosophical principles of the enquiry
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The words "human − humane" refer to ... .
- homophones
- homographs
- paronyms
- absolute homonyms
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Linguistics is a linguistic discipline that investigates ... .
- specific languages
- language and its structure
- relationship between language and the mind
- language in relation to social factors
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"He called his sister a heroine" and "He called his sister a taxi" exemplify ... .
- stylistic transposition
- syntactic synonymy
- synchronic polysemy
- constructional homonymy
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The example of the scientific revolution in linguistics is ... .
- “Language and Power” by N. Fairclough
- “Course in General Linguistics” by F. de Saussure
- “The Archeology of Knowledge” by M. Foucault
- “Relevance Theory” by D. Wilson and D. Sperber
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The Old English words mōdor (mother), sunu (son or descendant), brōðor (brother), sweostor (sister) belong to the etymological layer of ... .
- common Indo-European words
- common Germanic words
- specifically OE words
- Celtic words
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The allophones which do not undergo any distinguishable changes in the chain of speech are called ... .
- real
- objective
- principal
- subsidiary
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Pick out the historisms from the groups below:
- lad, kirk, galloway
- bonehead, goddam, bastard
- yeomantry, battering ram, baron
- mug, cock-eyed, beans
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Pragmatic type of expressions which regulate the relations between communicators are
- expressives
- commissives
- declaratives
- promissives
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Name the type of judgment that is based on emotions or personal prejudices.
- objective
- emotive
- scholarly
- subjective
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect.
- Asyndeton
- Detachment
- Inversion
- Polysyndeton
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This fallacy consists of arguing from a premise in which a term is used in one sense to a conclusion in which the term is used in another sense:
- the either/or fallacy
- the fallacy of composition
- the fallacy of equivocation
- the fallacy of association
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The appearance at the very beginning of a word of a consonant sound (in other languages, also a vowel) that is not justified from an etymological point of view, but is due to phonetic reasons, is called ...
- assonance
- prosthesis
- metathesis
- epenthesis
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Type of subordinative relation in which the dependent word receives the same categories as the main word is
- coordination
- subordination
- adjoinment
- neutralization
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But there is a negative side to new technology. ... the advantages we also need to consider a number of disadvantages.
- Be that as it may
- That's all very well but
- Apart from
- With reference to
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Scientific revolution is ... .
- the pre-paradigmatic period
- the paradigm shift
- the dominance of paradigm
- the crisis of normal science
-
In compound sentences, the clauses are linked by ...
- taxis
- parataxis
- hypotaxis
- heterotaxis
-
Words of foreign origin which have not entirely been assimilated into the English language are ...
- dialectisms
- professionalisms
- barbarisms
- historicisms
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
Why do you come so soon? You used to come at ten o’clock. And now you come at noon.
- Irony
- Periphrasis
- Meiosis
- Euphemism
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The Great Vowel Shift was ... .
- the change in the system of diphthongs
- the change in the whole system of long stressed vowels
- the change in the whole system of short stressed vowels
- the change in the whole system of short unstressed vowels
-
Referencing format most frequently used in English speaking countries is ... .
- UDC
- New York style
- APA
- ISBD
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The opening between the vocal cords is known as ...
- the larynx
- the glottis
- the uvula
- the pharynx
-
The branch of grammar that studies the structure of language in its development is ...
- general grammar
- synchronic grammar
- modern grammar
- diachronic grammar
-
Pragmatic type of wish expressions is
- optatives
- interrogatives
- locatives
- menasives
-
Connotative meaning is connected with ... .
- the sentence structure
- the literal meaning of a word
- the emotional and imaginative association surrounding a word
- the functional style
-
In Germanic languages the word stress originally fell on the initial syllable. This tendency was called ... .
- retentive
- constitutive
- rhythmical
- recessive
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New English irregular verbs correspond to
- former strong verbs that preserved the vowel interchange in the root
- preterite-present verbs
- anomalous verbs
- regular verbs
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
The hospital was crowded with the surgically interesting products of fighting in Africa.
- Irony
- Periphrasis
- Meiosis
- Zeugma
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Linguists of Ancient Rome identified a new part of speech:
- interjection
- noun
- participial
- particle
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Quotations, which comprise the exact words of the author, are called ... .
- direct
- numeric
- documentary
- indirect
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“I have attached a paper and some recent results, which I hope you will find … interesting … useful.”
- same… as
- such… as
- and… and
- both… and
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Metaphor "key to the mystery" is based on ... .
- similarity of temperature
- similarity of colour
- similarity of function
- similarity of shape and form
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Inverted (reverse) actual division is exemplified by ... .
- What’s on today? – We are going to the movies.
- What are we doing today? – We are going to the movies.
- Where are we going today? – We are going to the movies.
- Who’s going to the movies today? – We are going to the movies.
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What method involves testing a theory in a lab environment, in a controlled area or with willing study participants in different environments?
- observation
- questionnaire
- experiment
- interview
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Pick out the paronyms from the pairs below:
- to begin − to commence
- hope − despair
- preposition − proposition
- to die − to pass away
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Herman Steintal is considered to be a follower of linguistic theory of ... .
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Philipp Fortunatov
- Oleksandr Potebnja
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Elision of /t/ and /d/ can occur when ... .
- they are preceded by a consonant with which they agree in voice and followed by another consonant
- they are preceded by a consonant with which they agree in voice
- they can never be elided
- they are preceded by a consonant and followed by another one
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A stylistic figure that consists of two antonymous concepts is ..
- a simile
- an oxymoron
- an irony
- a euphemism
-
Functions of intonation are:
- integrating, segmenting, emotional, differentiating, communicative
- semantic, morphological, syntactic
- communicative, perceptive, cognitive, metalinguistic
- referential, directive, expressive, poetic
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The notion of “scientific revolution” was first introduced by ... .
- Noam Chomsky
- Edward Sapir
- Thomas Kuhn
- Ferdinand de Saussure
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The inclusion of dialects is particularly … here, as part of the project involved Italian participants.
- significantly
- capturing
- relevant
- gradually
-
The stress in the Old English words was always ...
- on the first syllable
- on the final syllable
- free
- on the root vowel
-
The category of person and number in modern English is realized in ...
- the imperative mood
- the subjunctive mood
- the present tense indicative mood
- the future tense indicative mood
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The linguistic aspect of speech sounds is also called ... .
- functional or social aspect
- auditory aspect
- acoustic aspect
- physiological aspect
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Pāṇini is known for his famous description of grammar:
- Rig Veda
- Ashtadhyayi
- Classical Sanskrit
- Modern Sanskrit
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In the Middle English vocabulary Scandinavian borrowings are mostly found among words connected with ... .
- government
- medicine
- everyday life
- church
-
The nuclear part of a word associated with its material lexical meaning and that remains after the exclusion of word-altering morphemes is ...
- the inflection
- the base
- the infix
- the root
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A/an… is an article that critically examines a new book or any other piece of writing.
- summary
- review
- abstract
- theses
-
The theory of knowledge and the assumptions and beliefs that we have about the nature of knowledge are called ... .
- existentialism
- positivism
- epistemology
- ontology
-
Connotation is ... .
- the strict dictionary meaning of a word
- the associations that people make with a word
- a word that means the opposite of another word
- a word that has the same meaning as another word
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
Good intentions but -; You just come home or I'll ... .
- Anaphora repetition
- Aposiopesis
- Antonomasia
- Assonance
-
A writing system in which signs (symbols) that express objects and concepts are used instead of letters that correspond to sounds is
- ideography
- phonography
- pictography
- syllabography
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The professor decided to take moral courage as the ... for his inaugural lecture.
- issue
- theme
- model
- sentence
-
A pair of (or several) words borrowed from the same source at different times and, therefore, having different forms and meaning are called ... .
- translation-loans
- etymological hybrids
- etymological doublets
- international words
-
Each sentence has modality which expresses the speaker's attitude towards ...
- the subject and the predicate
- the hearer
- unreality
- reality
-
Max Müller laid a special importance on learning of ... .
- protolanguage
- dead languages
- living languages and dialects
- Indo-European Languages
-
The Grimm’s Law expresses regular correspondences between ... .
- vowels
- consonants
- diphthongs
- digraphs
-
A set of symbols representing speech sounds is called ...
- phonation
- phonemes
- transcription
- translation
-
The branch of grammar that studies word-combinations, sentences, text is
- syntax
- morphology
- semantics
- lexicology
-
Social semiotics is ... .
- the study of syntactic relations in the language
- the study of signs as means of communication
- the study which investigates human signifying practices in specific social and cultural circumstances
- the study of cognitive processes in the language use
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Define the type of repetition in the sentences:
It is natural to be scared in a case like that. You are sure to be petrified in a case like that.
- Framing
- Ordinary
- Anaphora
- Epiphora
-
A set or system of methods and principles used in a particular discipline is a/an ... .
- theory
- scientific method
- hypothesis
- methodology
-
... illustrates a special use of the continuous aspect marked by the absence of the temporary element of the usual continuous meaning.
- Were you wanting a room?
- I was talking to Tom the other day.
- You are always wasting your money on something.
- How are you liking your new job?
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The concrete unit or phenomenon which is the target of the investigation is called ... .
- the methods
- the material
- the object
- the subject
-
Find the correct statement:
- The Stoics singled out types of relations within simple and complex sentences
- The Stoics did not introduce the term “syntax”
- The Stoics investigated comparative clauses in Old English
- The Stoics coined the term "intonation"
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
I hear your voice - it’s an angel’s sigh.
- Metonymy
- Irony
- Epithet
- Metaphor
-
The written standard in the Middle English period was formed on the basis of ... .
- the South-Western dialect
- the West Midland dialect
- the East Midland dialect
- the Northern dialect
-
“I am an assistant professor at the department of Engineering, at the Islamic University … Bangladesh, where I am doing research … reducing fuel emissions.”
- at, of
- of, on
- on, on
- in, of
-
The following types of relationships exist between units and levels of the language system:
- paradigmatic, syntagmatic, and hyponymic
- paradigmatic, syntagmatic, and symbiotic
- paradigmatic, synonymous, and hyponymic
- paradigmatic, syntagmatic, and antonymic
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Phonic shaping of oral form of language is called ...
- phonosemantics
- pronunciation
- phonology
- phonetics
-
The prefix demi- in the word "demiofficial" implies ... .
- priority
- locality
- negation
- incompleteness
-
Meaning-making in the linguistic theory is ... .
- the verbal and nonverbal interaction of communicants in the communicative situation
- the mental activity of ascribing meanings to linguistic and non-linguistic units in the communicative situation
- the social practice of gaining knowledge in the communicative situation
- the exchange of meanings in the communicative situation
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Morphemes that make up words of conditional segmentability and do not rise to the status of full morphemes for semantic reason are called ... .
- pseudo-morphemes
- unique morpemes
- combining forms
- allomorphs
-
The origin of the word is a Greek “phona” –
- a sound, a voice
- a consonant
- a vowel
- articulatory, acoustic
-
The predicative structure of a sentence includes the following elements ...
- object and predicate
- subject and predicate
- subject and predicative
- subject, object, and attribute
-
Old English was mainly a/an ... .
- synthetic language
- analytic language
- agglutinative language
- artificial language
-
This solution implies … among these processes.
- making a proposal
- reaching a consensus
- constructing comments
- leading to advances
-
The generalized abstract linguistic meaning inherent in words, which has a regular expression in the language, is
- grammatical meaning
- word-forming meaning
- lexical meaning
- connotative meaning
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
It will cost you a pretty penny.
- Hyperbole
- Meiosis
- Oxymoron
- Litotes
-
Such issues as outlining the purpose of the paper, tasks to be solved, the object and the subject of research, materials, methods, topicality, novelty, theoretical and practical (applied) value are included in the ... .
- body
- conclusion
- introduction
- summary
-
The main types of dictionaries which were created in the Ancient Rus:
- dictionaries-onomastykons, dictionaries-symbols, Slavo-Ruthenian dictionaries
- dictionaries-onomastykons, dictionaries-symbols, dictionaries-signs
- dictionaries-symbols, dictionaries-signs, Slavo-Ruthenian dictionaries
- dictionaries-symbols, dictionaries-images, Slavo-Ruthenian dictionaries
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The cognitive aspect of discourse presupposes ... .
- the use of verbal and non-verbal signs
- the formation of ideas and beliefs
- the interaction of communicants in a socio-cultural environment
- the gender differences of communicants
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Science is divided into three major branches:
- pure science, applied science, and technology
- mathematical, social, and life sciences
- natural, mathematical, and social sciences
- natural, physical, and earth sciences
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Define what stylistic device is used in the following sentence:
They looked at hundred of houses, they climbed thousands of stairs, they inspected innumerable kitchens.
- Suspense
- Ellipsis
- Inversion
- Climax
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Linguistics is divided into:
- general linguistics and theoretical linguistics
- theoretical linguistics and practical linguistics
- general linguistics and applied linguistics
- general linguistics and psycholinguistics
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The sentence is the basic communicative unit distinguished from all other units by its ... .
- signification
- deixis
- implicature
- predicativity
-
Cognitive pragmatics studies ... .
- the interaction of signs in meaning-making
- the construal of meaning-in-context
- the interaction of text and discourse in meaning-making
- the paradigmatic relations in meaning-making
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Germanic languages include:
- English, Dutch, Flemish, German, Boer (a South African of Dutch), Yiddish (New Hebrew), and Frisian
- Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Moldavian, and French
- Portuguese, Romanian, Visigothic, Ostrogothic, and Burgundian
- German, Boer (a South African of Dutch), Yiddish, Romanian, Moldavian, and French
-
Economists have recently questioned the rationale ... government spending.
-
The part of speech that had a dual number in Old English is ... .
- noun
- adjective
- pronoun
- numeral
-
... is a representation of a phoneme in a particular position context.
- An allophone
- A phoneme
- A syllable
- A morpheme
-
Disfavourable, plain-spoken or socially taboo expressions that are used instead of more socially acceptable ones are called ... .
- euphemisms
- dysphemisms
- antonyms
- synonyms