Paper - 2.3 : English Language Today - I,2012 Question Paper,University Of Pune Question Paper,M.A. (Part - I) (Semester - II)

University Of Pune Question Paper
M.A. (Part - I)
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 Paper - 2.3 : English Language Today - I
 (Semester - II) (2008 Pattern)
Time : 3 Hours] [Max. Marks : 80
Instructions to the candidates:
1) All questions are compulsory.
2) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q1) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each : [16]
a) What are the aspects of standard of language?
b) Explain the concept of ‘social dialects.’
c) Define the concept of ‘code-switching’ and its necessity.
d) What is the role of ‘sociolinguistics’in the study of a language?
e) What make a language ‘formal’ and ‘informal’?
f) Illustrate the process of ‘borrowing’ that changes language internally.
Q2) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each : [16]
a) Bring out the features of GIE as a non-native variety of English.
b) Illustrate the distinct aspects of the diphthongs in BrE.
c) How is AmE different from BrE at the lexical level?
d) How do the National Varieties of English represent the native societies?
e) Write a note on distinctive syntactic features of AmE.
f) Which are the distinct phonological features of GIE?
Q3) Write short notes on any four of the following in not more than 200 words
each: [16]
a) The concepts of ‘interactants’ and ‘locution’.
b) Importance of ‘presuppositions’.

c) Searle’s concept of ‘speech acts’.
d) The’ cohesive devices’ in the texts.
e) The importance of ‘deixis’ in speech acts.
f) The terms ‘linguistic semantics’ and ‘pragmatic semantics’.
Q4) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each : [16]
a) Define the ‘Principle of Politeness?’ Explain its significance.
b) What is the concept of ‘text?’ Explain with suitable examples.
c) How do the maxims of the CP help us making the conversation
effective?
d) Explain the concept of ‘adjacency pairs’ with examples.
e) Explain the concept of ‘discourse analysis’.
f) Define the relative values of the PP and the CP in conversational
analysis.
Q5) a) Attempt any four of the following: [4]
i) Identify style of the following sentence.
You don’t know that we are all concerned with the corruption
issue.
ii) Give example of the journalistic register.
iii) Accent is restricted to the varieties of......................; whereas a
dialect covers the differences of ......................and..........................
of a language.
iv) When a pidgin is acquired by children as a native language, it is
said to be a ...................... .
v) Identify the language register in the following text :
Shar-num is a Sanskrit word which has been derived from the
root sharan. It means to bow to someone. To prostrate yourself
in front of a God is a type of shar-num implies that your ego is
reduced and you surrender.
vi) That the use of the high variety or a local dialect as a situation
changes is called ......................
vii) Attempt any four of the following: [4]
i) Explain how the Indian speaker doesn’t maintain distinction
between the following pair of words- ‘pen’ and ‘pale.’
ii) Define the distinct Indian pronunciation of the consonants-
/θ/ and / ∂ / and explain with examples.
iii) Comment on the use of Indian English in the following.
‘Will you bring two breads for me?’
iv) Provide American English counterparts of the following words.
1) a cricketer 2) a lorry
v) Identify the syntactic differences between AmE and BrE in the
following.
1) I’ll go take a bath. 2) I’ll go and have a bath.
vi) Give two examples of words in which /α:/ is pronounced as /æ/
in American English.
c) Attempt any four of the following: [4]
i) What kind of inference is involved in interpreting the utterance?
‘The India couldn’t do well yesterday on the pitch.’
ii) What are the deictic expressions in the following utterance?
‘Up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky to me’
iii) Explain the process of reference-inference in the following.
A: Have you read Shakespeare?
B: Not complete, but some romantic tragedies only.
iv) Explain the coherence expected in the following piece of text.
‘As I understand criticism it is, like philosophy and history, a
kind of novel for the use of discreet and curious minds. And
every novel, rightly understood, is an autobiography. The good
critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among
masterpieces.
v) Identify which would be the direct and indirect speech acts.
1) You are thinking in a wrong way.
2) Wouldn’t you agree that you are thinking in a wrong way?
vi) What is an obvious presupposition of a speaker in the following
utterance?
‘Teacher should be a learner all times.’
d) Attempt any four of the following : [4]
i) Which maxim of Cooperative Principle is observed in the
following?
A: Will you please help me to get it?
B: Certainly, but let me keep my bag on the shelf.
ii) Give an example of ‘offer-agreement’ adjacency pair.
iii) Identify which maxim of Cooperative Principle is violated in the
following.
A: Do you know my salary is doubled now?
B: Of course, I also know the ratio of dearness is doubled.
iv) Convert the following utterance into a polite expression.
‘Stop banging on the door; kids may get disturbed with.’
v) Frame a sentence to illustrate the face-threatening act.
vi) Give an example of the Tact- maxim of politeness.

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