NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam June 2025 ENGLISH

Total Questions: 100

11. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, what is the minimum number necessary to complete the speaking circuit?

Correct Answer: (b) 2
Solution:

Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher who developed both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. According to him, to complete the speaking, there should be two minimum requirements to function; the 'speaker' and the 'listener'.

12. Who had coined the term "Onto-Theology"?

Correct Answer: (a) Jacques Derrida
Solution:

The French philosopher Jacques Derrida has coined the term "Onto-Theology" to critisize the traditional Western philosophy and theology. He brings out a foundational link between 'being' (ontology) and 'God' (theology).

13. Match List-I with List-II

                     List-I    List-II
 A. He turned his back on the 'two decades of hypocrisy' I. Dylan Thomas
 B. The welsh traditions of the power of spoken word are present in his poetry II. John Betjeman
 C. He is identified as a representative middle-brow voice of the present, adjusting to the past III. Philip Larkin
 D. His poetry plays with and against Romantic tradition in poetry IV. W. H. Auden

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Solution:
                   List-I   List-II
 A. He turned his back on the 'two decades of hypocrisy'  IV. W. H. Auden
 B. The welsh traditions of the power of spoken word are present in his poetry I. Dylan Thomas
 C. He is identified as a representative middle-brow voice of the present, adjusting to the past II. John Betjeman
 D. His poetry plays with and against Romantic tradition in poetry III. Philip Larkin

14. Choose the correct definitions of language:

A. Language uses symbols that are primarily vocal but may also be visual and its' subfields are phonetics, phonology, writing systems, orthography, and nonverbal communication
B. Language is used for communication and its' subfields are sentence processing, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and conversation analysis.
C. Language uses symbols that have unconventionalized meanings and its' subfields are universal grammar, innateness, emergentism, neurolinguistics and cross-cultural analysis.
D. Language is a systematic means of communication ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings.
E. Language has region specific characteristics and its' subfields are phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse analysis, and lexical analysis.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) A, B and D only
Solution:

Considering the option have been provided, statements A, B and D correctly define the language and provide the most accurate and fundamental descriptions of language.

15. Which of the following is not a distinct discourse analytical research tradition as suggested by Margaret Wetherell?

Correct Answer: (c) Saussurian research
Solution:

Saussurian research is not a distinct discourse analytical research tradition as suggested by Margaret Wetherell.
Margaret Wetherell and his colleagues have highlighted several key traditions that shape how researchers approach the study of language and its social role. Discursive psychology, Bakhtinian research and Foucauldian research tradition as suggested by Margaret Wetherell.

16. "Territorialization" is a term given by

Correct Answer: (d) Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Solution:

Territorialization is a term given by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, in their work "Capitalism and Schizophrenia". In critical theory 'Territorialization' is the process of fixing social cultural or political practices to a specific place or territory.

17. Match List-I with List-II

  List-I (Characters)  List-II (Novel)
 A. Ursula-Skrebensky I. Women in Love
  B. Gudrun-Gerald II. Lady Chatterley's Lover
  C. Connie-Mellors III. Sons and Lovers
  D. Miriam-Paul IV. The Rainbow

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Solution:
  (Characters)   (Novel)
 A. Ursula-Skrebensky  IV. The Rainbow (1915)
 B. Gudrun-Gerald  I. Women in Love (1920)
 C. Connie-Mellors II. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
 D. Miriam-Paul III. Sons and Lovers (1913)

18. Which of the following works is not written by William Cooper?

Correct Answer: (c) The Field Marshal's Memoirs
Solution:

"The Field Marshal's Memoirs" (1975) is not written by William Cooper, it is written by John Masters, while "Scenes from Provincial Life", "Scenes from Married Life", "Memoirs of a New Man" are written by William Cooper.

19. Who wrote to the committee of public instruction on introducing English as official language of the Government and that of education?

Correct Answer: (c) William Bentinck
Solution:

William Bentinck, as the Governor-General of India, wrote to the Committee of Public Instruction on introducing English as official language of the Government and that of education.

20. The term "Chronotope" has been coined by-

Correct Answer: (a) MikhailBakhtin
Solution:

The term "Chronotope" has been coined by Mikhail Bakhtin. It can be literally translated as "timespace". Mikhail Bakhtin developed the term chronotope in his essay "Form of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel" (1937).