Language and Linguistics – Previous Year Questions
118 questions from past UGC NET English papers, each with the correct answer. Open any question for its explanation.
- Assertion (A): From a sociolinguistic standpoint, mainstream SLA is asocial, keeping hidden the social side of learning to interact through language. Reason (R): A sociolinguistic perspective focuses on the linguistic s…
- Assertion (A): In extensive reading the teacher plays the main role. Reason (R): Extensive reading aims to broaden learners' knowledge.
- Statement I: 'Anagenesis' is the final part of a drama after the climax, where conflicts are resolved. Statement II: 'Anagenesis' is the turning point at which the audience sees an unexpected reversal.
- Statement I: There is an analogy between an author's works and the experiences of his or her life. Statement II: The works may be seen as an incomplete translation of the life.
- Statement I: Things acquire meaning beyond mere use because my relation to them involves an 'Other'. Statement II: When I designate a thing, I designate it to the Other.
- Which science systematically studies the function of signs?
- What is a second language?
- Assertion (A): In the same classroom some learners progress quickly while others progress very slowly. Reason (R): Some learners never achieve native-like command of a second language.
- The process by which a learner's interlanguage freezes at a more or less deviant stage is called:
- Integrative motivation refers to language learning for:
- Who distinguished constatives from performatives?
- According to the English Subject Centre report, which skills are needed for postgraduate work in English? A. Library searching skills B. Editorial skills C. Bibliographic skills D. Peer-management skills E. IT skills
- Which of the following is NOT a kind of sign according to C. S. Peirce?
- Which of the following statements about figures of speech are true? A. Paronomasia is a figure based on sound. B. Zeugma is a figure based on construction. C. Irony is a figure based on imagination. D. Chiasmus is a fig…
- In which dialect is the English version of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Lines List II: Device A. Pope: 'Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike' I. Irony B. Austen: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged…' II. Simile C. Keats: 'Thou still unravish'd br…
- A heroic couplet consists of:
- Which of the following statements about Neuro-Linguistic Programming are true? A. 'Neuro' indicates that sensory experience shapes behaviour. B. Grammatical knowledge is a matter of practice. C. Richard Bandler and John…
- Statement I: Teaching non-native literature to ELT students is arid. Statement II: Negative responses in the ELT classroom can create an interesting classroom situation.
- Assertion (A): Because we are taught to read, we engage with paradigms rather than texts. Reason (R): We take meaning from a text according to our needs, desires and critical assumptions.
- Arrange the following stages of first-language acquisition in sequence: A. Holophrastic (one-word) stage B. Babbling C. Telegraphic speech D. Cooing
- Words with the same pronunciation but different meanings are called:
- Statement I: A pidgin arises when two mutually unintelligible groups communicate using the most obvious features of each other's language. Statement II: However long a pidgin is spoken, it can never become a community's…
- Which features does Saussure attribute to language? A. An interlocking structure B. A system of constant change C. A system of signs D. A self-standing formation
- The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is called a:
- Which pair of thinkers is associated with speech-act theory?
- Who argued, in 'The World as India', that English is the only unifying language of India?
- 'You have hissed the mystery lectures' is an example of:
- Which of the following statements about English in India are true? A. India has one of the largest English-using populations in the world. B. No Indian group claims English as its mother tongue. C. Over fifty per cent o…
- Which of the following is a dead language?