Test your English Language knowledge with these quick-fire questions that will help break up long periods of revision and get you prepared just before the exam! The questions are divided up into each of the three papers: Language Variation, Child Language and Language Investigation: Gender Study an...
Language Variatin - Cintext
1. What is the mode?
2. What is the medium?
3. What is the audience?
4. Name 6 difeeent language functonss pueposes?
Language Variatin – Lexis
5. Defne lexiical feld?
6. What is a lexiical domain?
7. What is a lexieme?
8. Defne collocaton?
9. What is meant by connotaton?
10. What is denotaton?
11. What is an idiom?
12. What is a cliché?
13. What does monosyllabic mean?
14. Was is the polysyllabic?
15. What is meant by ‘Latnatee? Exiamples?
16. Give some exiamples of Anglo-Saxion woeds?
17. What is eegistee?
18. What aee paealinguistc featuees?
19. What is meant by peosody?
Language Variatin - Syntax & Grammar
20. What is syntaxi?
21. What aee clauses?
22. What is a main clause?
23. What if a main clause is followed by a suboedinate clause? Exiample?
24. Give an exiample of when a suboedinate clause is followed by a main clause?
25. What is a minoe sentence?
26. Give the same exiample as a) actve voice b) passive voice?
27. What is the efect of eepeated use of passive voice?
28. Give the 6 difeeent types of sentences?
29. What is paeataxiis?
30. What is cohesion?
31. What is exiplicit cohesion?
32. What does the use of loose oe elliptcal cohesion suggest?
33. What is a demonsteatve oe deictc eefeeence?
34. What is the difeeence between anaphoeic and cataphoeic eefeeencing? Exiamples?
35. What aee modal veebs? What do they imply? (politeness steategies)
36. What aee the 4 difeeent types of deteeminees?
37. Give an exiample of the simple pasts simple peesents simple futuee; past contnuouss peesent contnuouss futuee
contnuous; past peefects peesent peefects futuee peefect; past peefect contnuouss peesent peefect contnuouss futuee
peefect contnuous.
38. What is a Copulae veeb? Exiamples?
Language Variatin - Talk
39. What aee the difeeent types of uteeance in talk?
40. What aee politeness steategies used foe?
41. Exiamples of phatc talk?
42. What does tuen taking depend upon?
43. Exiamples of fllees?
44. What could fllees show?
45. Exiamples of back-channelling?
46. What does back-channelling show?
47. Language choices (in talk) depend on 3 things – foemalitys sentence steuctuees woeds, otheewise known as?
48. How does status and eelatonships manifest in talk? (dominance, tuen conteol, topic conteols agenda setng, foems of
addeess, evaluaton and coeeecton).
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