语言学选择题_(7)

语言学选择题。

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7. D. none of the above If a sentence is regarded as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes ________. A. a sentence B. an act C. a unit D. an utterance ________ act theory is an important theory in the pragmatic study of language. A. Speaking B. Speech C. Sound D. Spoken One of the contributions Searle has made is his classification of ________ acts. A. locutionary B. illocutionary C. perlocutionary D. speech Of the three speech act, linguistics are most interested in the ________. A. locutionary act B. perlocutionary act C. illocutionary act D. none of the above Most of the violation of the maxims of the CP give rise to ________. A. utterance meaning B. speech act theory C. conversational implicatures D. all of the above The significance of Grice s CP lies in that it explains how it is possible for the speaker to convey ________ is literally said.

A. more than

B. less than

C. the same as

D. none of the above

Chapter 7 Language Change

1. We may use the term ________ instead of historical linguistics as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various period of time and at various historical stages.

A. diachronic linguistics

B. synchronic linguistics

C. sociolinguistics

D. psycholinguistics

2. An important set of extensive sound changes affecting vowels, known as the Great Vowel Shift, occurred at the end of the ________.