The most important sociological use of language is the ____ function by which people establishand maintain their status in a society.

A. performative
B. interpersonal
C. phatic
D. metalingual

In any language words can be used in new ways to mean new things and can be combined into innumerable sentences based on limit rules. This features is usually termed ____

Theory that primitive man made involuntary vocal noises while performing heavy work has been called the____

____ is usually defined as the science of language or, alternatively, as the scientific study of language.

____ investigates the interrelation of language and mind, in processing and producing utterances and in language acquisition for example.

Modern linguistics is ____in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rather than lay down some rules for people to observe.

Linguists have to observe and collect linguistic____before they can do anything else.

Language is symbolic, so each word serves as a ____in relation to a specific meaning.

Design features

Which of the following is not the way of expanding sentences?

A. addition
B. correlation
C. coordination
D. subordination