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Question 1

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Globalisation is...
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  • The process of intensified compression and increasing consciousness of the world
  • The rapid expansion and intensified consciousness of the world
  • The homogenisation of global cultures
  • The system of intensified compression and increasing consciousness of the world

Question 2

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Time and space compression is...
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  • The phenomenon altering time and space relations due to the rapid increase in technology allowing communication to travel faster, making the world seem smaller
  • The earth is slowly moving closer to the sun, causing space to appear more compressed and time to speed up
  • Two-way flow/process of globalisation
  • when you move further away from the core of 'civilisation,' society becomes more backwards

Question 3

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Glocalisation is thinking global, but acting local
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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What are the four facilitating factors of intercultural exchange discussed in the lecture?
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  • Intercultural trade
  • Foreign religions
  • Political/Military factors
  • Social factors
  • Cultural factors
  • Linguistic factors

Question 5

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Colonisers 'form a community' by 'un-forming/re-forming' the existing colonised community.
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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The difference between postcolonialism and post-colonialism is...
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  • Postcolonialism is ideological, while post-colonialism is temporal
  • With post-colonialism, countries can still be culturally and economically neo-colonised, but formally decolonised. Postcolonialism on the other hand, is completely free of its colonisers influence
  • Postcolonialism is characterised by different experiences within/between countries, while post-colonialism is concerned with the education, literature, and linguistic experience
  • Postcolonialism is the process of decolonisation, while post-colonialism is the result of decolonisation

Question 7

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While colonialism includes imperialism, imperialism does not require colonialism.
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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Which one describes postcolonial theory?
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  • A new way of analysing text by re-reading traditional English literature for colonial themes and discourse and the analysis of representations of colonised subjects
  • "Ways that representations and modes of perception are used as fundamental weapons of colonial power to keep colonised people subservient to colonial rule." It is the colonisation of the mind
  • It emphasises unity in diversity, making specific, national differences less important than grand, abstract, universal concerns through a humanist approach

Question 9

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What is the subaltern?
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  • Those in the lowest social position, outside hegemonic power structures of colonial powers
  • Those in the highest social position, operate within the hegemonic power structure but oppose colonial powers
  • Indigenous language that has been marginalised and associated with backwardness and barbarianism
  • Language or dialect used often only by those in the lowest social position as a result of colonial language policy

Question 10

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The usage-based approach to language is characterised by...
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  • Reading the intention of others
  • Joint attention and social interaction
  • Shared structure of languages
  • Cognitive abilities developed through socio-cultural factors
  • All humans have the ability to learn a language
  • Language forms knowledge about the self and social world

Question 11

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Weak hypothesis of the Linguistic Relativity Principle suggests that the structure of language determines thoughts.
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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Galton's problem stated that...
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  • Different cultures develop and adopt similar characteristics as a result of cultural exchange, not independently as previously believed
  • Modernity and modernism is a western phenomena and that it is incorporated by non-western cultures
  • Everything obeys the laws of market
  • Societies take on patterns of rationalisation, breaking down tasks into smaller tasks for production

Question 13

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Pragmatics is...
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  • How people use context to understand knowledge of human behaviour needed to interpret interactions
  • How people use their knowledge of human behaviour to understand the context of interactions
  • How people use interactions to interpret to understand the context of human behaviours
  • How people use their knowledge of communications to avoid misunderstandings

Question 14

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Which best characterises opinions of the anti-globalisation movement towards globalisation? (can pick more than one)
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  • Against the neo-liberal aspect of globalisation
  • No globalisation without representation
  • Fear of fragmentation
  • Spread of western modernism and colonialism
  • Reinforcing the ideas of the 'other' and backwardness of non-western civilisations
  • Form of neo-imperialism
  • Fear of homogenisation
  • Against all global networks

Question 15

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Which are communication strategies used to avoid miscommunication discussed in the lectures?
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  • Indicating need for repair
  • Try to reformulate
  • Ask for confirmation
  • Ask for clarification
  • Use gestures to help convey message
  • Switch to different language
  • Draw pictures or write it down

Question 16

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Which answer describes a lingua franca?
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  • Language used for communication between speakers that do not share a native tongue
  • Language spoken around the world by populations other than those associated with them
  • Language spoken by most of the worlds population, serving as a medium of literacy and other forms of cultural life
  • Language of public signage

Question 17

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The outer circle in the three circles of Englishes represents those who use English as a foreign language.
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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What are the three main types of colonisation?
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  • Progressive territorial expansion, exploitation of bodies, and colonisation of the mind
  • Conservative ideology, territorial expansion, and exploitation of resources
  • Reactionary political ideology, exploitation of resources, and expansion of power
  • Linguistic, colonisation of the mind, and capitalist economy

Question 19

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Linguistic imperialism favours one language over others in a way that parallels societal structures.
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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Three important actors in linguistic imperialism discussed in the lecture are...
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  • Private linguistic institutions
  • Governmental institutions
  • Religious missionaries
  • Small community organisations
  • Family
  • School and educational instututes
  • Military

Question 21

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What have we learnt from post colonial linguistics?
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  • That post-colonial nations with linguistically diverse citizens recognise the importance of European languages for wider communication
  • An explanation of perceived language and use, such as beliefs about articulation and rationalisation or justification
  • An investigation of social and ideological significance of language and conception in nature of language and use
  • It underpins ethnic struggles

Question 22

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Which best describes 'art as panhuman'?
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  • Inherently global feature, motivated by art for art's sake
  • Art ties in with economics and politics,a representation of primitivism and/or cultural heritage and identity
  • Refers to culture and globalisation were we ascribe more value to art, defamiliarise subjects, and challenge the ideological hegemony
  • Art occurs all around the world, often serving religious functions, capturing the essence of the subject in the images and therefore controlling them

Question 23

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What were the three types of portraitures?
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  • Generic, emblematic, and representational
  • Characteristic, symbolic, and representational
  • Idiosyncrasy, emblematic, and represntation
  • Symbolic, rendering, and depction

Question 24

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Globalisation is a process, not a system.
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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What were the three identity subjects described by Hall?
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  • Enlightenment subject
  • Postmodern subject
  • Sociological subject
  • Primitive subject
  • Posthuman subject
  • Paradoxical subject
  • Modern subject
  • Subjective subject

Question 26

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The uncanny valley theory shows us that as objects with human features look more like natural human beings, there is a dip in familiarity and a feeling of revulsion amongst people.
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  • True
  • False

Question 27

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What were the three blows to human ego
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  • The earth is not the centre of the universe
  • The human species is not unique
  • The human mind is not entirely in control
  • Emotions are not rational
  • Some developments are universal

Question 28

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What best describes 'anti-globalisation?' (can pick more than one
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  • Against the neo-liberal aspect of globalisation
  • Shift towards counter-globalisation
  • No globalisation without representation
  • Against formation of global networks
  • Anti-western movement
  • Form of western neo-imperialism
  • Against the capitalist nature of globalisation

Question 29

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In the lecture, we discussed that cultural globalisation is the mixing of contemporary enabled by what? (can pick more than one)
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  • Patterns of population movement
  • Generalised accelerating globalisation
  • Globalisation of electronic communications
  • Patterns of population growth
  • Changes in societal structures
  • Innovations in popular culture in media

Question 30

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In all the definitions of colonialism given, there is no mention of the indigenous people.
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  • True
  • False

Question 31

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What did the psychopathology of colonisation discuss?
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  • The socio-psychological effects of colonialism and the objectification of people with different skin colour
  • The socio-psychological effect of colonialism and the stripping of natural resources and exploitation of colonised lang and people
  • The psychological impact of linguistic imperialism and colonial language policy on the indigenous people
  • The psychological impact on society as a result of globalisation and the implementation of capitalist economic systems

Question 32

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The Holy Trinity of Postcolonial Theory is composed up of which 3 theorists?
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  • Edward Said
  • Homi Bhabha
  • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Rosi Braidotti
  • John Clark
  • Paul Ricoeur

Question 33

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Mimicry is the breakdown of authority of the coloniser by the colonised through appropriating elements of the coloniser, intervening with the traditional power structure.
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  • True
  • False

Question 34

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What are the five 'scapes' described by Appadurai?
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  • Ethnoscape: peoples' movements
  • Mediascape: media and how it represents the world
  • Technoscape: global configuration of the world
  • Financescape: distribution of global capital
  • Ideoscape: distribution of ideologies
  • Politiscape: political structure within a community
  • Globalscape: globalisation and how it effects the world
  • Telescape: communications and how innovations change rate of information distribution

Question 35

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Acculturation is the west incorporating non-western cultural aspects into own culture.
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  • True
  • False

Question 36

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What are the three linguistic frames of reference?
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  • Relative, absolute, and intrinsic
  • Comparative, definitive, and intrinsic
  • Relative, definitive, and inherent
  • Definitive, intrinsic, and inherent

Question 37

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Communicative competence is the knowledge of how to communicate in certain situations.
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  • True
  • False

Question 38

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Pragmatic failure is a misunderstanding that arises from the inability to understand a speech act as a result of grammar.
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  • True
  • False

Question 39

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Which describes sociopragmatic failure?
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  • Caused by cross-culturally different assessments of social distance, power relations, rights and obligations, impositions, taboo subjects etc. It is associated with the cross-culture iceberg because some cultural context is primarily in awareness but most out of awareness
  • Force assigned to a certain linguistic structure which does not correspond to the normally assigned one in a native culture
  • Teacher-induced error; transfer is done in the preferred way of native language, which is not how it would be commonly said in the target language

Question 40

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What are the four typologies of multilingualism?
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  • Duplicating multilingualism
  • Fragmentary multilingualism
  • Overlapping multilingualism
  • Complementary multilingualism
  • Contrasting multilingualism
  • Parallell multilingualism
  • Repetitive multilingualism
  • Idle multilingualism

Question 41

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What is the posthuman predicament?
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  • The blurring of boundaries between humans, animals, and technology
  • The importance of quantifying self
  • Identity is unstable and fragmented
  • The increasing importance of space relations

Question 42

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Plessner claims that the difference between living and inanimate objects is that life is embodied and has boundaries, while inanimate objects have contours which we ascribe to them.
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  • True
  • False

Question 43

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What are the three stages of embodiment?
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  • Open postionality
  • Centric positionality
  • Ex-centric positionality
  • Post-centric positionality
  • Peripheral positionality
  • Closed positionality

Question 44

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Which of the following describes extrahumanism?
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  • Individual human enhancement
  • Creating new life and genetic modification
  • Creating artificial life forms
  • All of the above

Question 45

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Capitalism and globalisation are used (incorrectly) interchangeable as a result of a semantic shift.
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  • True
  • False

Question 46

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Globalisation is seen as paradoxical because it is presented as global, but theorised as anti-western.
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  • True
  • False

Question 47

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A paradigm shift in the globalisation process can be seen in the following...(can pick more than one)
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  • Decline is uneven
  • Erosion of southern nation states
  • Northern states making a comeback
  • Erosion of the democratic system
  • Criticisms of the capitalist system
  • Neo-colonialsm

Question 48

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How is education used as a tool for implementing colonial language policy? (can pick more than one)
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  • Privileging/enforcing dominant language over others
  • Westernising a small segment of the population
  • Civilising population
  • Elevate prestige of indigenous language
  • Manipulate the linguistic periphery

Question 49

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Minority languages represent what elements? (can pick more than one)
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  • Nationalism
  • Ideology
  • Politics
  • Conflict
  • History
  • Membership

Question 50

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Which of the following is not a main actor in minority languages discussed in the lecture?
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  • Minority members
  • Religious leaders
  • External powers
  • None of the above

Question 51

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Which is not a global impact of minorities that was discussed in the lecture?
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  • Diasporas
  • Multimedia
  • Education
  • International organisation/external influences agendas
  • Internal divisions
  • Ethnic/linguistic threat

Question 52

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Language is a powerful force in religious change and the spread of religion.
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  • True
  • False

Question 53

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In the lecture, we discussed that language and religion is multi-faceted for which of the following reasons?
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  • It addresses the status of particular languages in particular religions
  • Religion is considered taboo
  • Religion impacts language planning
  • Religious eduction impacts language use

Question 54

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Structural functionalism concerns...(can pick more than one)
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  • Effects of religion on language
  • Mutuality of religion and language
  • Effects of language on religion
  • Language, religion, and literacy
  • Effects of religion and language on social stratification
  • Language, religion, and colonial exploitation
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