LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
III SEMESTER – NOV. 2004
EL 3801– LINGUISTICS-II
Date : 28.10.04
Time: 1.00 – 4.00 pm
Max
:100 marks
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
A. 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:
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)
(15 marks)
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:
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.
(15 marks)
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
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
(3x5=15 marks)
Truth conditional semantics
Conversational implicatures
Constatives and Performatives
Turn taking
Cost benefit scale of Tact maxim
Modesty maxim
VI Answer the question given on the following discourse.
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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(3x5=15 marks)