LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 3801/LE 924 – LINGUISTICS II

 

Date       : 17.04.04                                                                                                                      Max   : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                                                            Hours : 3 hrs

Part A

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

 

1. Write short notes on the following.
   1. morphemes b) accent, c) phonology, d) syllable
2. How do sounds of speech and voice generate from our body? Explain with diagrams.
3. Explain the place and manner of articulation with the table and description.
4. What status does the English language enjoy in India? Analyse how and why.

 

1. Answer the following (any one). (15 marks)

 

5. Mark the patterns of into nation in the following passage and justify your answer. Do not transcribe.

A: How was the cassette and CD release functions?

B: Great; why didn’t you come?

A: I was held up by some commitments.

B: ‘U’ know you missed the lovely speeches.

A: Did I? How were they?

B: Hilarious must be the word.

A: How were the audience basically

B: They were enjoying every bit of it.

(OR)

6. A: Are you looking forward to the elections

B: Yes, but?

A: But what?

B: People are gradually disillusioned

A: May be because of the pit falls in the system.

B: Is there a way out for India.

A: Yes. By an optimistic revolution at all levels.

B: You sound ideal, but if only it becomes real?!

 

III. 07. Attempt a phonological analysis of the following poem commenting on the interplay of sound and sense, stress and rhythm and the use of alliteration assonance.                                                                                 (15 marks)

 

Lead, kindly light amid the circling gloom,

Lead Thou me on;

The night is dark, and I am far from home

Lead Thou me on

 

Keep Thou my feet, I do not ask to see

The distant seene, one step enough for me

I was not ever thus nor prayed that Thou

shouldn’t load me on;

I loved to choose and see my path; but now

Lead Thou me on

I love the gainsh dary, and, spite of fears

Provide ruled my will; remember not past years

So long Thy power has me, sure it still will lead me on.

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PART B

 

 

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

 

7. Explain any three Politeness Principles.
8. ‘Cohesion is a semantic unit of discourse’. Explain.

 

1. Answer any Three of the following in about 150 words each.  (3 x 5 = 15)

 

9. What is illocutionary force?
10. Explain the transformational function of language.
11. Explain ‘Current speaker selects the next’ in a discourse.
12. Analyse Maxim of manner with illustration.
13. Discuss any two aspects of speech act.
14. Explain Tact Maxim.

 

 

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: (3 x 5 = 15)

 

She wore a dirty white sari with a red border. On one side of her nose glistened a diamond nose ring and she had several gold bangles on her arms. She had been talking to the bearer until Sir Mohan had summoned him inside. As soon as he had gone, she had hailed a passing  railway coolie.

“Where does the zenana stop?”

“Right at the end of the platform.”

The coolie flattened his turban to make a cushion, hoisted the steel trunk on his head, and moved down the  platform. Lady Lal picked up her brass tiffin carrier and ambled along behind him. On the way she stopped a hawker’s stall to replenish her silver betel leaf cas, and then joined the coolie. She sat down on her steel trunk(which the coolie had put down) and started talking to him

“Are there trains very crowded on these lines?”

“These days all trains are crowded, but you’ll find room in the zenana”.

“Then I might as well get over the bother of eating”.

Lady Lal opened the brass carrier and took out a bundle of cramped chappatis and some mango pickle.  While she ate, the coolie sat opposite her on his haunches, drawing lines in the gravel with his finger.

“Are you travelling alone, sister?”

“ No I am with my master, brother. He is in the waiting room. He travel in the first class”

 

15. Identify Exophoric and Endophoric references in the passage and explain how they help in achieving cohesion.
16. Explain the field, mode and tenor of the passage.
17. Cull out elements of Speech Act and explain their significance.

 

 

 

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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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