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In Chinese when someone breaks a bowl or a plate the host or the people present are likely to say“碎碎(岁岁)平安”as a means of controlling the forces which they believes feel might affect their lives. Which functions does it perform?

A. Interpersonal
B. Emotive
C. Performative
D. Recreational

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Which of the following property of language enables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, due to this feature of language, speakers of a language are free to talk about anything in any situation?

A. Transferability
B. Duality
C. Displacement
D. Arbitrariness

Study the following dialogue. What function does it play according to the functions of language?—A:nice day, isn’t it?—B: Right! I really enjoy the sunlight.

A. Emotive
B. Phatic
C. Performative
D. Interpersonal

When a dog is barking, you assume it is barking for something or at someone that exists hear and now. It couldn’t be sorrowful for some lost love or lost bone. This indicates the design feature of __________.

A. cultural transmission
B. productivity
C. displacement
D. duality

______ answers such questions as how we as infants acquire our first language.

A. Psycholinguistics
B. Anthropological linguistics
C. Sociolinguistics
D. Applied linguistics

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