Question 1

A group of people who share one or more varieties of language and the rules for using any or all of those varieties in everyday communication is called a

Accepted Answer

A) linguistic community. 
B) speech community. 
C) community of practice. 
D) competent community.

Question 2

Someone who demonstrates communicative competence can also lay claim to having accumulated

Accepted Answer

A) communicative capital. 
B) economic capital. 
C) symbolic capital. 
D) linguistic competence.

Question 3

The G of Dell Hymes' S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G mnemonic refers to different kinds of speech acts or events. These are called the

Accepted Answer

A) genres. 
B) graphemes. 
C) gestures. 
D) gravitations.

Question 4

The P of Dell Hymes' S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G mnemonic refers to

Accepted Answer

A) politeness. 
B) posture. 
C) presentation. 
D) participants.

Question 5

A speaker's underlying ability to produce and recognize grammatically correct expressions is called

Accepted Answer

A) linguistic competence. 
B) verbal competence. 
C) communicative competence. 
D) structural competence.

Question 6

An approach whose goal is the discovery of those rules that help to legitimate particular conversational practices, as well as the ideas or ideologies that people have about languages and conversations, is called

Accepted Answer

A) exchange analysis (E
A) . 
B) rule analysis (R
A) . 
C) morphological analysis (M
A) . 
D) discourse analysis (D
A) .

Question 7

Bronislaw Malinowski was an anthropologist who wrote about the importance of attending to ______________ in the study of language.

Accepted Answer

A) denotation 
B) context 
C) form 
D) morphology

Question 8

Explain the difference between linguistic competence and communicative competence.

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Question 9

Describe one of the cases of miscommunication described in your textbook.  Identify the components of Agar's MAR, which take place in the event as described.

Accepted Answer

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Question 10

The A of Dell Hymes' S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G mnemonic refers to

Accepted Answer

A) attitudes. 
B) astuteness. 
C) answers. 
D) act sequence.

Question 11

The close study of actual conversational exchanges is called

Accepted Answer

A) symbolic analysis (S
A) . 
B) phonological analysis (P
A) . 
C) morphological analysis (M
A) . 
D) conversation analysis (C
A) .

Question 12

If I understand and laugh along with Thai friends at a joke told in Thai, I will have achieved some degree of

Accepted Answer

A) linguistic competence. 
B) communicative competence. 
C) gestalt. 
D) nirvana.

Question 13

Ottenheimer learned that her Japanese students did not ask questions during the class period, but instead came up after class to ask questions, because

Accepted Answer

A) in Japan, it is considered deeply embarrassing to have anyone know that you are confused. 
B) they were concerned about their linguistic competence in English. 
C) in Japan, it is considered rude to waste other students' time with individual questions. 
D) they thought that the other students might laugh at them.

Exam 6: Language in Action