LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 5502 – LINGUISTICS

 

 

 

Date : 30-04-2012              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

 

Answer any FIVE questions in the following in about 50 words each;

by choosing not less than two questions from each section:                                  (5 X 4 = 20 Marks)

 

SECTION – 1

1. When is it said that a person is involved in ‘performance’?
2. How does human language differ from animal communication?
3. How are the English nasal sounds produced?
4. What is stylistics?

SECTION – 2

5. What is the traditional label given to the following words in English grammar? Why?

Sing, Sings, Sang

6. Define ‘collocation’.
7. What is ‘phatic communion’.
8. Trace the difference between ‘Homophones’ and ‘homonyms’.

PART – B

 

Answer any four of the following questions in about 150 words each;

by choosing TWO from each section:                                                                     (4 X 10 = 40 Marks)

SECTION – 1

9. How is linguistics a science?
10. How are the English fricatives pronounced? In what way are they different from frictionless continuants?
11. Define the terms:- Idiolect, dialect, pidgin, creole

SECTION – 2

12. Write a note on TG grammar.
13. Explain how English vocabulary has grown through the tendency of borrowing.
14. Trace the psycho – social dimensions of language.

PART – C

 

Answer the following questions in about 300 words each:                                    (2 X 20 = 40 Marks)

 

15. Select any Ten traditional concepts of grammar and bring out their inadequacies from a modern grammarian’s view point.

(OR)

Draw a three term lable for the English consonants.

16. Trace the features of discourse analysis.

(OR)

How does stylistics play a pivotal role in the analysis of literary texts? Elaborate.

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