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1) Disambiguation is largely __________ and automatic

  1. conscious
  2. conscious
  3. unconscious
  4. certain

 

2) According to H. Paul Grice, a/an _______ is a blatant violation of the first maxim of quality

  1. symbol
  2. hyperbole
  3. metaphor
  4. paradox

 

3) The transmitter encodes and transmits the message as a linguistic ____________

  1. twist
  2. signal
  3. puzzle
  4. stump

 

4) Conventional transcriptions of conversations use standard __________ transcription script to keep the record of the data

  1. phonemic
  2. orthographic
  3. allophonic
  4. morphemic

 

5) In language texts, highlighting and deemphasizing by the writers is called ______ structure.

  1. information
  2. avenue
  3. glossary
  4. silence

 

6) After the collection of data, if the data are transcribable an analyzable, students move to the next stage which is called __________

  1. transcribing
  2. drawing
  3. plagiarizing
  4. sharing

 

7) The building of corpora of written language has proceeded more _______ than the compilations of spoken corpora.

  1. quickly
  2. mutually
  3. conversely
  4. adamantly

 

8) Synonyms words can be used in place of one another however corpora can show that it is not common for words to be readily __________ for one another.

  1. substitutable
  2. substitutable
  3. workable
  4. amiable

 

9) Pre-theoretical knowledge, beliefs and expectations about communication and the usage of language is associated with the term _______

  1. folk semantics
  2. folk syntax
  3. folk pragmatics
  4. folk morphology

 

10) In relevance theory, attributive use of a concept is where a word or phrase is used to express a concept that a speaker attribute to ____

  1. someone else
  2. herself
  3. themselves
  4. himself
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