Daily Practice · A Level

Daily Practice - A Level

17th February 1996

5 questions · A Level · 76 questions in this band

1
Language: Language and Power
How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
2
Language: Textual Variations
Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
3
Language: Child Language Development
Calculate the MLU in morphemes for these three utterances: 'I want juice' (3 morphemes), 'the dog barked' (4 morphemes, counting -ed as one), 'mummy gone now' (3 morphemes).
4
Language: Language Change and Diversity
The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
5
Literature: Unseen Prose Analysis
Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.

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