UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-44 (DECEMBER-2009-II)
UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-44 (DECEMBER-2009-II)
41. He wrote an essay called “Conrad’s Darkness” where he praises the earlier writer for offering him a vision of the world’s “half-made societies’. Identify the writer.(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(C) Salman Rushdie
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
42. “Magic Realism” is closely associated with
(A) Italo Calvino
42. “Magic Realism” is closely associated with
(A) Italo Calvino
(B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(C) Anita Desai
(C) Anita Desai
(D) Rohinton Mistry
43. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and fiction?
(A) Kamala Markandya
43. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and fiction?
(A) Kamala Markandya
(B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Upmanyu Chatterjee
(C) Upmanyu Chatterjee
(D) Amitav Ghosh
44. Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel?
(A) Train to Pakistan
44. Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel?
(A) Train to Pakistan
(B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
(C) The Shadow Lines
(C) The Shadow Lines
(D) In Custody
45. Which of the following options is correct?
(i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement.
(ii) It flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century.
(iii) It was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of Locke.
(iv) Among the major texts of Transcendentalist thought are the essays of Emerson,
Thoreau’s Walden and the writings of Margaret Fuller.
(A) (i) and (iv) are correct.
45. Which of the following options is correct?
(i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement.
(ii) It flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century.
(iii) It was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of Locke.
(iv) Among the major texts of Transcendentalist thought are the essays of Emerson,
Thoreau’s Walden and the writings of Margaret Fuller.
(A) (i) and (iv) are correct.
(B) (ii) and (iii) are correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) (iv) is correct
Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives given below in the question 46 to 50 :
It would be more accurate to say that discourse, rather than language, plays a crucial part in structuring our experience. The whole idea of ‘language’ is something of a fiction: what we normally refer to as ‘language’ can more realistically be seen as heterogeneous collection of discourses. Each of us has access to a range of discourses, and it is these different discourses which give us access to, or enable us to perform, different ‘selves’. A discourse can be conceptualized as a ‘system of statements which cohere around common meanings and values’. So, for example, in contemporary Britain there are discourses which can be labeled ‘conservative’ – that is, discourses which emphasize values and meanings where the status quo is cherished: and there are discourses which can be labeled ‘patriarchal’ – that is, discourses which emphasize meanings and values which assume the superiority of males. Dominant discourses such as these appear ‘natural’: they are powerful precisely because they are able to make invisible the fact that they are just one among many different discourses.
Theorizing language in this way is still new in linguistics (to the extent that many linguists would not regard analysis in terms of discourses as being part of linguistics). One of the advantages of talking about discourses rather than about language is that the concept’ discourse’ acknowledges the value-laden nature of language. There is no neutral discourse: whenever we speak we have to choose between different systems of meaning, different sets of values. This process allows us to show how language is implicated in our construction of different ‘selves’: different discourses position us in different ways in relation to the world.
Questions :
Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives given below in the question 46 to 50 :
It would be more accurate to say that discourse, rather than language, plays a crucial part in structuring our experience. The whole idea of ‘language’ is something of a fiction: what we normally refer to as ‘language’ can more realistically be seen as heterogeneous collection of discourses. Each of us has access to a range of discourses, and it is these different discourses which give us access to, or enable us to perform, different ‘selves’. A discourse can be conceptualized as a ‘system of statements which cohere around common meanings and values’. So, for example, in contemporary Britain there are discourses which can be labeled ‘conservative’ – that is, discourses which emphasize values and meanings where the status quo is cherished: and there are discourses which can be labeled ‘patriarchal’ – that is, discourses which emphasize meanings and values which assume the superiority of males. Dominant discourses such as these appear ‘natural’: they are powerful precisely because they are able to make invisible the fact that they are just one among many different discourses.
Theorizing language in this way is still new in linguistics (to the extent that many linguists would not regard analysis in terms of discourses as being part of linguistics). One of the advantages of talking about discourses rather than about language is that the concept’ discourse’ acknowledges the value-laden nature of language. There is no neutral discourse: whenever we speak we have to choose between different systems of meaning, different sets of values. This process allows us to show how language is implicated in our construction of different ‘selves’: different discourses position us in different ways in relation to the world.
Questions :
46.Which of the following is True in the light of this passage?
(A) Language is inaccurate.
(B) Discourse is accurate.
(C) Language comprises discourse.
(C) Language comprises discourse.
(D) Discourse comprises language.
47. What words/phrases suggest the plurality of discourse in this passage?
I. different selves
47. What words/phrases suggest the plurality of discourse in this passage?
I. different selves
II. range
III. system of statements
III. system of statements
IV. heterogeneous collection
(A) II and IV
(A) II and IV
(B) II and III
(C) III and IV
(D) I
48. Having called language “something of a fiction”, how does the author suggest its opposite ?
By using the phrase
(A) conceptualized as a system
48. Having called language “something of a fiction”, how does the author suggest its opposite ?
By using the phrase
(A) conceptualized as a system
(B) more accurate to say
(C) range of discourses
(C) range of discourses
(D) more realistically be seen
49. Which among the following statements is NOT true ?
(A) Conservative discourses plead for the status quo.
(B) Patriarchal discourses privilege male values.
(C) Dominant discourses are natural.
(D) Dominant discourses seem natural.
50. What does this passage plead for ?
(A) Theorizing language in a new way.
(B) Theorizing language in terms of discourses.
(C) Studying language as discourse.
(D) Studying discourse as language
49. Which among the following statements is NOT true ?
(A) Conservative discourses plead for the status quo.
(B) Patriarchal discourses privilege male values.
(C) Dominant discourses are natural.
(D) Dominant discourses seem natural.
50. What does this passage plead for ?
(A) Theorizing language in a new way.
(B) Theorizing language in terms of discourses.
(C) Studying language as discourse.
(D) Studying discourse as language