17. Speakers consider the matter of face for themselves and others. Based on this observation, Leech (1983) proposes _____________. A. the cooperative principle B. the principle of relevance C. the politeness principle D. speech acts ...

10. mixed language which has become the mother tongue of a speech community is called a ___________. A. pidgin B. creole C. Esperanto D. natural language ...

20. The pioneering investigation done by William Labov in New York City in 1966 was to test registers among different groups of speakers. A. 错误 B. 正确 ...

15. Blending is a process that creates new words by putting together non-morphemic parts of existing words. A well-known example is smog (smoke and fog). A. 错误 B. 正确 ...

2. Bound morphemes are always attached to free morphemes to form new words. A. 错误 B. 正确 ...

13. ______ is a term widely used in sociolinguistics to refer to varieties according to use. A. Register B. Dialect C. Tenor D. Variety ...

6. The study of meaning is defined as___________. A. linguistics B. semantics C. morphology D. pragmatics ...

3. General linguistics is based on the view that language as a system composed of three aspects: sound, structure and meaning. A. 错误 B. 正确 ...

15. When the tongue touches the alveolar ridge, the sound produced is described as __________. A. alveolar B. palatal C. velar D. interdental ...

10. The motivation that the learners have a sense of achievement as long as they learn if of vital importance may be termed ____ motivation. A. instrumental B. integrative C. cognitive D. none of them ...