LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

III SEMESTER – NOV. 2004

EL 3801– LINGUISTICS-II

Date : 28.10.04                                                                                                  Max       :100 marks

Time: 1.00 – 4.00 pm                                                                          Duration :3 hrs

PART – A

I  Answer any TWO of the following:                                                 (2x 10 = 20 marks)

1.What are the phases of speech?

2.Give the place and manner of articulation of all the phonetic symbols in English.

3.Give the short notes for the following

1. Phonemes. B. alliteration   C. Phonetics  D. Synesthasia

4.Give practical suggestions for teaching English pronunciation to Indian learners.

 

II Transcribe the following conversation into the phonemic symbols:           (15 marks)

A : Aren’t you going to attend the conference?

B : It will be in the middle of next month.

A : It  will be nice to attend. What is the topic?

B :  It should be on  ‘ELT in India.

A :  I like the topic and I will attend

B :  Are you interested in presenting papers?

A :  I think I should be

B : All the best then I will see you there.

(OR)

Mark the intonation for the following conversation and give necessary explanation. 

(15 marks)

A : Where are you going next week?

B :  I am planning to visit CIEFL  library.

A : Shall I join you?

B :Of course, it will be my pleasure.

A : Is it a good library?

B :I heard it so.

A : Will you then be booking our tickets?

B : No I am busy. Can you do it?

 

III. Attempt a line by line prosodic analysis of the following poem:                           (15 marks)

Come live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove,

That hills and valleys, dales and fields,

Or woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks

And see the shepherds feed their flocks

By shallow rivers, to whose falls

Melodious birds sing madrigals

And I will make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant posies;

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle,

Embroider’d all with leaves of myrtle.

 

 

A gown made of the finest wool,

Which from our pretty lambs, we’ll pull

Fur lined slippers for the cold

With buckles of the purest gold

PART – B

IV Write an essay on any ONE of the following in about 400 words.                        (20 marks)

‘The social goal of comity is achieved by a combination of  Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle’. Explain the statement by using examples from local context.

(or)

Language has universal constraints. Explain System constraints with local examples.

 

V Write on any THREE of the following in about 150 words each        (3×5=15 marks)

1. Truth conditional semantics
2. Conversational implicatures
3. Constatives and Performatives
4. Turn taking
5. Cost benefit scale of Tact maxim
6. Modesty maxim

 

VI Answer the question given on the following discourse.                       (3×5=15 marks)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Cull out features of Speech event in the passage.
2. Explain cases of reference and tie in the passage
3. Explain the use of register in the passage

 

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