University Of Pune Question Paper
M.A. (Part - I)
ENGLISH
English Language Today
(Paper - 2.3) (Sem. - 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.
P576
Q1) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each. [16]
a) What are the features of ‘idiolects’? Explain.
b) Illustrate the difference between ‘language’ and ‘dialect?’
c) Write a note on the ‘code - switching’ and its influence.
d) Explain the meaning and scope of ‘sociolinguistics.
e) Illustrate the formal and informal styles.
f) Define the process of pidginization.
Q2) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each. [16]
a) Explain the concept of ‘General Indian English.’
b) Bring out the differences between the vowels in GIE and BrE with suitable
examples.
c) How is the AmE different from the BrE at the phonological level?
d) What are the syntactic features of Indian English?
e) Write a note on distinctive lexical features of AmE.
f) What are the different spelling conventions in AmE and BrE.
Q3) Write short notes on any four of the following in not more than 200 words
each : [16]
a) Explain the importance of the felicity conditions in communication.
b) What are the types of ‘presuppositions?’
c) Illustrate the concepts of ‘speech event’ and ‘speech situation.’
d) What is meant by the term ‘coherence’ in the study of texts?
e) Write a note on ‘deixis’ in English.
f) Explain Searle’s typology of speech acts.
SEAT No. :
P.T.O.
Q4) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each. [16]
a) What is the concept of ‘face’? Define its ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ value.
b) Explain the term ‘discourse analysis’ with suitable examples.
c) Discuss ‘power and solidarity’ as the strategies of politeness.
d) Explain the concept of ‘adjacency pairs’ with examples.
e) Explain the maxims of quantity and manner to delimit their scope.
f) How does the observance of CP entail violation of PP?
Q5) a) Attempt any four of the following. [4]
i) Identify style of the following sentence.
I’ll be out of station for a week in next month.
ii) Give example of code - mixing.
iii) Identify the registral variety of the following text.
Despite growing investment in education, 35% of its population is
still illiterate; and only 15% of Indian students reach high school,
iv) Communicative competence includes --------- and ---------.
v) Identify the mode of English in the following.
‘He ain’t wanna to join it.’
vi) The abstract system of language is called ------------; while one’s
actual speaking is called -----------.
b) Attempt any four of the following. [4]
i) Explain how the Indian speaker doesn’t maintain distinction between
the following pair of words - ‘raid’ and ‘red’.
ii) Transcribe the following according to the common Indian
pronunciations.
‘The Latin language was spoken by the Ancient Romans’.
iii) Comment on the use of tense in Indian English in the following.
‘My friend is seeming to be very much tired’.
iv) Provide American English counterparts of the following words.
1) backyard
2) puncture
v) Identify the syntactic differences between AmE and BrE in the
following.
1) He was called in and asked to join conversation
2) He was called in to join conversation.
vi) Give two examples avoiding – ‘u’ in spelling in American English.
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c) Attempt any four of the following. [4]
i) What kind of inference is involved in interpreting the utterance?
‘We know that they are vegetarian.’
ii) What are the deictic expressions in the following utterance?
‘People in India should go for research nowadays’.
iii) Give an example of ‘cataphoric reference.’
iv) Explain the coherence expected in the following piece of text.
‘In America, even education is commercialized. So has it become
in India. There is a high amount of tuition fees that goes into these
institutions. But there is a lack of quality education in India’
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? ‘My boss purchased one more new car yesterday’.
d) Attempt any four of the following. [4]
i) Which maxim of Cooperative Principle is violated in the following?
1) Would you mind if I use your PC?
2) It becomes very difficult to make up. I was on leave yesterday
and have to complete most of backlogs.
ii) Give an example of ‘request - response’ adjacency pair.
iii) Identify which maxim of Cooperative Principle is observed in the
following.
1) Sunil, be careful.
2) Of course sir. I’ll try at my level best. Thank you.
iv) Convert the following utterance into a polite expression.
‘Why don’t accept it and start working with us?’
v) Frame a sentence to illustrate the face - saving act.
vi) Give an example of the Approbation maxim of politeness.
M.A. (Part - I)
ENGLISH
English Language Today
(Paper - 2.3) (Sem. - 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.
P576
Q1) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each. [16]
a) What are the features of ‘idiolects’? Explain.
b) Illustrate the difference between ‘language’ and ‘dialect?’
c) Write a note on the ‘code - switching’ and its influence.
d) Explain the meaning and scope of ‘sociolinguistics.
e) Illustrate the formal and informal styles.
f) Define the process of pidginization.
Q2) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each. [16]
a) Explain the concept of ‘General Indian English.’
b) Bring out the differences between the vowels in GIE and BrE with suitable
examples.
c) How is the AmE different from the BrE at the phonological level?
d) What are the syntactic features of Indian English?
e) Write a note on distinctive lexical features of AmE.
f) What are the different spelling conventions in AmE and BrE.
Q3) Write short notes on any four of the following in not more than 200 words
each : [16]
a) Explain the importance of the felicity conditions in communication.
b) What are the types of ‘presuppositions?’
c) Illustrate the concepts of ‘speech event’ and ‘speech situation.’
d) What is meant by the term ‘coherence’ in the study of texts?
e) Write a note on ‘deixis’ in English.
f) Explain Searle’s typology of speech acts.
SEAT No. :
P.T.O.
Q4) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each. [16]
a) What is the concept of ‘face’? Define its ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ value.
b) Explain the term ‘discourse analysis’ with suitable examples.
c) Discuss ‘power and solidarity’ as the strategies of politeness.
d) Explain the concept of ‘adjacency pairs’ with examples.
e) Explain the maxims of quantity and manner to delimit their scope.
f) How does the observance of CP entail violation of PP?
Q5) a) Attempt any four of the following. [4]
i) Identify style of the following sentence.
I’ll be out of station for a week in next month.
ii) Give example of code - mixing.
iii) Identify the registral variety of the following text.
Despite growing investment in education, 35% of its population is
still illiterate; and only 15% of Indian students reach high school,
iv) Communicative competence includes --------- and ---------.
v) Identify the mode of English in the following.
‘He ain’t wanna to join it.’
vi) The abstract system of language is called ------------; while one’s
actual speaking is called -----------.
b) Attempt any four of the following. [4]
i) Explain how the Indian speaker doesn’t maintain distinction between
the following pair of words - ‘raid’ and ‘red’.
ii) Transcribe the following according to the common Indian
pronunciations.
‘The Latin language was spoken by the Ancient Romans’.
iii) Comment on the use of tense in Indian English in the following.
‘My friend is seeming to be very much tired’.
iv) Provide American English counterparts of the following words.
1) backyard
2) puncture
v) Identify the syntactic differences between AmE and BrE in the
following.
1) He was called in and asked to join conversation
2) He was called in to join conversation.
vi) Give two examples avoiding – ‘u’ in spelling in American English.
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c) Attempt any four of the following. [4]
i) What kind of inference is involved in interpreting the utterance?
‘We know that they are vegetarian.’
ii) What are the deictic expressions in the following utterance?
‘People in India should go for research nowadays’.
iii) Give an example of ‘cataphoric reference.’
iv) Explain the coherence expected in the following piece of text.
‘In America, even education is commercialized. So has it become
in India. There is a high amount of tuition fees that goes into these
institutions. But there is a lack of quality education in India’
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? ‘My boss purchased one more new car yesterday’.
d) Attempt any four of the following. [4]
i) Which maxim of Cooperative Principle is violated in the following?
1) Would you mind if I use your PC?
2) It becomes very difficult to make up. I was on leave yesterday
and have to complete most of backlogs.
ii) Give an example of ‘request - response’ adjacency pair.
iii) Identify which maxim of Cooperative Principle is observed in the
following.
1) Sunil, be careful.
2) Of course sir. I’ll try at my level best. Thank you.
iv) Convert the following utterance into a polite expression.
‘Why don’t accept it and start working with us?’
v) Frame a sentence to illustrate the face - saving act.
vi) Give an example of the Approbation maxim of politeness.
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