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ASL Linguistics Quiz #3
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21. The study of how the meaning conveyed by a word or sentence depends on aspects of the context in which it is used (such as time, place, social relationship between speaker and hearer, and speaker's assumptions about the hearer's beliefs).
a. Sociolinguistics
b. Pragmatics
c. Semantics
d. Meningitis

22. The application of the methods and results of linguistics to such areas as language teaching; national language policies; lexicography; translation; and language in politics, advertising, classrooms, courts, and the like.
a. Pragmatics
b. Morphology
c. Applied Linguistics
d. Sociolinguistics

23. The study of the way in which words are constructed out of smaller meaningful units.
a. Morphology
b. Semantics
c. selachophobia
d. Pragmatics

24. The study of meaning; how words and sentences are related to the objects they refer to and the situations they describe.
a. Psycholinguistics
b. Anthropological Linguistics
c. ophidiophobia
d. Semantics

25. The study of the brain and how it functions in the production, perception and acquisition of language.
a. hypertrichosis
b. Pragmatics
c. Neurolinguistics
d. Semantics

26. The study of the inter-relationship between language and culture.
a. socio-cultural linguistics
b. Psycholinguistics
c. Pragmatics
d. Anthropological Linguistics

27. The study of the interrelationship of language and social structure; linguistic variation; attitudes toward language.
a. Sociolinguistics
b. Prescriptic study
c. Pragmatics
d. Semantics

28. The study of the interrelationship of language and the cognitive structures; the acquisition of language.
a. Diglosic inquiry
b. Conjunctivitis
c. Psycholinguistics
d. Interlocutionary research

29. The study of the sound system of language; how the particular sounds used in each language form an integrated system for encoding information and how such systems differ from one language to another.
a. Phonology
b. Anthropological Linguistics
c. Gingivitis
d. Semantics

30. The study of the way in which sentences are constructed; how sentences are related to each other.
a. Hysterics
b. Halitosis
c. Semantics
d. Syntax

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