Print Quiz: The Prague School ()

1.

Linguistic scholars who began to meet regular discussion from 1926 were recognized as:

A.

The Prague School

B.

Chomskyan School

C.

Descriptive School

D.

Nerds

2.

Refers to something about which the hearer already knows:

A.

Passive Construction

B.

Functional Sentence

C.

Theme

D.

Rheme

3.

States some new fact about a given topic:

A.

Theme

B.

Comment

C.

Rheme

D.

Function

4.

These terms were used by the Descriptivists in much the same way as 'theme' and 'rheme':

A.

Sentence and Pattern

B.

Context and Discourse

C.

Topic and Comment

D.

Perspective and Traditio

5.

This school lays great stress on the need for linguists' statements to 'explain' rather than merely 'describe':

A.

The Descriptive School

B.

The Prague School

C.

The Psychologist School

D.

The Chomskyan School