Language and Mind – Spring 2013 – Second Practice Exam 1. Which of the following statements about parameters is FALSE? a. They specify the limits on possible differences between languages b. They do not belong to Universal Grammar # c. Their values must be “set” on the basis of experience 2. From the viewpoint of the principles-and-parameters theory‚ the process of language acquisition consists of: a. Setting the choice for each parameter that fits the language that is being acquired # b. Storing
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Language plays an important role in human life. One tries to acquire‚ learn and use language as a means of communication‚ and simultaneously as social symbol of humanity. It forms the foundation of our perceptions‚ communications‚ and daily interactions. By using language someone could make statements‚ convey facts and knowledge explain or report something‚ and keep social relations among the language users. It is a system of symbols by which we categorize‚ organize‚ and clarify our thinking. Language
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Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish—a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover‚ metaphor is typieully viewed as characteristic of language alone‚ a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason‚ most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found‚ on the contrary‚ that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life‚ not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual
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Applied linguistics is an umbrella term that covers a wide set of numerous areas of study connected by the focus on the language that is actually used. The emphasis in applied linguistics is on language users and the ways in which they use languages‚ contrary to theoretical linguistics which studies the language in the abstract not referring it to any particular context‚ or language‚ like Chomskyan generative grammar for example. Interestingly even among applied linguists there is a difference of
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The higher date the calendar shows‚ the faster the development of the society is. Every era of human beings has its most significant invention or progress that represents the base for further development‚ further inventions‚ further progress – simply‚ for changes. As the time goes the changes are more and more frequent and more and more significant. The technological development provides the people possibilities that were few years ago unimaginable. But all of us know that the more possibilities
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Literary criticism is defined as the attempt to explain a literary work through theory. Similar in the short story “A Question of Dowry” written by Siew Yue Killingly‚ there few theories that can be used to analysis the story. The most prominent literary criticism that can be used to explain the short story is feminism criticism and reader response. Feminism is can be defined as gender inequalities and strives for equal rights for woman. In the Indian society the women do not have any freedom
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AND LITERATURE (PHD PROGRAM) LINGUISTICS DR VEYSEL KILIÇ ESMA ŞENEL Y1112.620021 HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS Linguistics as a study endeavors to describe and explain the human faculty of language. The history of linguistics is a branch of intellectual history‚ for it deals with history of ideas- ideas about language- and not directly with language itself (Law‚ 2003‚ p.2). Many histories of linguistics have been written over the last two
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Mr.1. Introduction 1.1. Approaching the issue The task of setting out (to use a neutral word) the goals of a human activity may be approached in a variety of ways depending on conditions such as who is involved in the activity and who has the power to determine the goals. In the case of the goals of a scientific discipline‚ the question may‚ in principle‚ be approached by established scientific methods: * Deductive approach: The highest and most general goal is taken as an axiom‚ more specific
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Culture and Language The power of language to reflect culture and influence thinking was first proposed by an American linguist and anthropologist‚ Edward Sapir (1884–1939)‚ and his student‚ Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941). The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis stated that the way we think and view the world is determined by our language (Anderson & Lightfoot‚ 2002; Crystal‚ 1987; Hayes‚ Ornstein‚ & Gage‚ 1987). Instances of cultural language differences are evidenced in that some languages have specific
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IFL A4.2 (2011-2012) Chapter 1: What is Language? - - .b lo gs po t.c om - Language can be viewed as a social fact‚ as a psychological state (mental dictionary)‚ as a set of structures (a grammatical system: a system to what orders the words have to come in if they are to make sense)‚ or as a collection of outputs (utterances/sentences: spoken or written). Language can be viewed as a set of choices (different ways of saying a sentence)‚ a set of contrasts (an inversion
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