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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
- When is it said that a person is involved in ‘performance’?
- How does human language differ from animal communication?
- How are the English nasal sounds produced?
- What is stylistics?
SECTION – 2
- What is the traditional label given to the following words in English grammar? Why?
Sing, Sings, Sang
- Define ‘collocation’.
- What is ‘phatic communion’.
- 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
- How is linguistics a science?
- How are the English fricatives pronounced? In what way are they different from frictionless continuants?
- Define the terms:- Idiolect, dialect, pidgin, creole
SECTION – 2
- Write a note on TG grammar.
- Explain how English vocabulary has grown through the tendency of borrowing.
- Trace the psycho – social dimensions of language.
PART – C
Answer the following questions in about 300 words each: (2 X 20 = 40 Marks)
- 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.
- Trace the features of discourse analysis.
(OR)
How does stylistics play a pivotal role in the analysis of literary texts? Elaborate.
