If a linguist tells people“what should be in language"or "what people should say", he is ____
A. directive
B. descriptive
C. expressive
D. prescriptive
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The distinction between competence and performance was made by ____
A. de Saussure
B. Noam Chomsky
C. M.A.Halliday
D. Bloomfield
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____