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Communication (UGC/ NET)

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What is the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea referred to as?

  1. Rhetoric

  2. Pleonasm

  3. Tautology

  4. Oxymoron

  5. Sarcasm


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Pleonasm is the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.

Which of the following is a specialised form of symbolic writing?

  1. Leet

  2. Rebus

  3. Phoneme

  4. Morpheme

  5. Verlan


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The term leet is derived from the word elite. The leet alphabet is a specialised form of symbolic writing. 

Which statutory body in India has supreme power in regard to the media to ensure that freedom of speech is maintained?

  1. All India Radio

  2. Doordarshan

  3. Prasar Bharati

  4. The Press Council of India

  5. The Press Information Bureau


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Press Council of India is a statutory body in India that governs the conduct of the print media.

Which of the following has been created as an aid for teaching English as a second language?

  1. Hypergraphy

  2. Metafiction

  3. Metalanguage

  4. Constructed script

  5. Basic English


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Basic English is an English-based controlled language created by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language.

Which component of speech affects communication most at the subconscious level and establishes trust?

  1. Para language

  2. Emoticon

  3. Lexemes

  4. Multiword expression (MWE)

  5. Hieroglyph


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Speech also contains non-verbal elements known as para language, e.g. rhythm, intonation, tempo and stress. 

Which of the following studies is concerned with the use and study of valid reasoning?

  1. Pragmatism

  2. Aesthetics

  3. Logic

  4. Ethics

  5. Metalogic


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Logic is the branch of philosophy concerned with the use and study of valid reasoning.

Which of the following refers to a writing system where each written symbol represents a concept?

  1. Metalanguage

  2. Constructed language

  3. Pasigraphy

  4. Universal grammar

  5. Knowledge representation and reasoning


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A pasigraphy is a writing system where each written symbol represents a concept.

Which of the following is one of the earliest systems of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets?

  1. Devanagari

  2. Cuneiform

  3. Latin

  4. ISCII

  5. Calligraphy


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Cuneiform script is one of the earliest systems of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.

Which of the following may refer to the cognitive ability to learn and use systems of complex communication?

  1. Phonology

  2. Ethnosemiotics

  3. Antipositivism

  4. Language

  5. Neurolinguistics


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Depending on philosophical perspectives regarding the definition of language and meaning, when used as a general concept, language may refer to the cognitive ability to learn and use systems of complex communication.

Which of the following is also known as bridge language?

  1. Common speech

  2. Universal language

  3. Lingua franca

  4. Working language

  5. Language contact


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A lingua franca, also known as bridge language, common language, trade language or vehicular language, is a language or dialect systematically  used to make communication possible between people who do not share a native language or dialect.

Which of the following represents a methodology for the analysis of text regardless of the medium in which it is presented?

  1. Information

  2. Sociology

  3. Reason

  4. Language

  5. Semiotics


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Semiotics represents a methodology for the analysis of text regardless of the medium in which it is presented. 

'To hear something through the grapevine' has the usual implication that the information was passed through

  1. word of mouth

  2. loud speakers

  3. circulars

  4. official mail

  5. seminar


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

To hear something through the grapevine is to learn of something informally and unofficially by means of gossip or rumour.

Which of the following best describes a communication occurring in the mind of an individual in a model which contains a sender, receiver and feedback loop?

  1. Inner discourse

  2. Dialogical self

  3. Face-to-face interaction

  4. Intrapersonal communication

  5. Interpersonal communication


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Intrapersonal communication is a communicator's internal use of language or thought. It can be useful to envision intrapersonal communication occurring in the mind of the individual in a model which contains a sender, receiver and feedback loop.

Which of the following is the amateur study of linguistics?

  1. Internet slang

  2. Folk linguistics

  3. Applied linguistics

  4. Meme

  5. Pseudoscience


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Folk linguistics is the amateur study of linguistics. 

Which of the given terms refers to a dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming?

  1. Astral projection

  2. Dream argument

  3. Yoga nidra

  4. False awakening

  5. Lucid dream


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

A lucid dream is any dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming.

Which of the following is a system for writing a language in which the written symbols correspond to the significant spoken sounds?

  1. Graphemics

  2. Morphophonology

  3. Morphology

  4. Phonemic orthography

  5. Lexis


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond to the phonemes (significant spoken sounds) of the language.

Which branch of linguistics encompasses speech act theory?

  1. Semantics

  2. Syntax

  3. Pragmatics

  4. Semiotics

  5. Lexis


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches to language behaviour in philosophy, sociology, linguistics and anthropology.

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