LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2004
EL 5502/ENG 507 - LINGUISTICS
Date : 12.04.04
Duration: 1 – 4 pm.
Max : 100 marks
Hours : 3 hrs
I. Answer any FIVE (50 words) not choosing more than THREE from each group:
(5 x 4 = 20 marks)
1. Explain Transformational Grammar.
2. What is ‘Butterfly catching’ in Stylistics
3. Explain the role of Grammar in Language.
4. Explain any one feature of idiolect.
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Distinguish between voiceless and voiced plosives
Explain the role of passive articulators.
How is Semantics different from Semiotics?
What do you mean by pejorative meaning? Give examples.
II. Answer any FOUR (150 words each) not choosing more than TWO from each group:
(4 x 10 = 40 marks)
9. Explain arbitrariness and symbols in language
10. Explain Register as a combination of Field, Mode and Tenor.
11. Write on any one feature of Discourse
12. Analyse the ways in which literature constributes to the growth of a language
13. Do the linguists accept change of meaning as a positive status of a language? Give reasons to your
answer.
14. Comment on Received Pronunciation and Indian English.
III. Answer the questions (300 words each) given below:
(2 x 20 = 40 marks)
15. Write an essay on the system constraints of language
(OR)
Write an essay on any five figures of speech.
16. Discuss the various ways in which three lable descriptions of Consonants helps a learner to understand
the articulations of the consonants.
(OR)
“English language has been growing only from the major influences of grammar and literature”. –
Discuss.
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