City College of El Salvador
El Salvador City, Misamis Oriental
Midterms Quiz 2
General Instructions. Write your answers in the boxes below. Strictly no erasures.
1.The study of signs and anything that
could be taken as a sign.
9.The belief that all languages
originated from a single language is
also known as the __________ theory
of language design.
11. Discussions in class, where the
instructor or students convey a
message with a specific message, is
an example of the ___________
function of language.
13. What was the first word uttered by
the infants in Psammetichus’
experiment?
14. This theory believes that the
romantic side of human life is
responsible for language creation.
15. The function of language when
people express feelings or make their
individuality public.
2. The function of language, according
to Halliday, where people use it to “get
things done”.
3. The “concept” or “mental image”
according to the Saussure’s Model.
4. The story of how Adam every living
creature, and thus explains how
language began is in the book of
_______ in the Bible.
5. Who was the first known linguist
who wrote about Sanskrit in detail?
6. The purely conventional relationship
between the signifier and signified is
also known as _________.
7. In Pierce’s model, the _______ is
something beyond the sign which is
refers, or the actual, physical thing.
8. From number 7, what did
Psammetichus consider to be the
“original” language?
10. For the Babylonians, their god of
language is ____________.
12. This is another word for a
“beginning” language, used by Noah
Webster to describe Chaldee or
Armaic.