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Language Fill in the blanks with the proper words. （1）Performative function means language can be used to “do” things. （2）Emotive/expressive function means the use of language to reveal something about the feelings and attitudes of the speaker. （3）Most imperative sentences are associated with conative/directive function. （4）The sentence “What’s it like?” shows interrogative function. （5）Greetings shows phatic function. （6）“We are most grateful for this.” shows expressive function. （7）Propaganda shows evocative/recreational function. （8）Displacement refers to contexts removed from the immediate of the speaker. （9）Halliday’s metafunctions include Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual functions. （10）Linguistics should include at least five parameters:_phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. 2. True or false questions (If it is false correct it) Language distinguishes us from animals because it is far more sophisticated than any animal communication system.T There is not a certain degree of correspondence between the sequence of clauses and the actual happenings. F The order of clauses are always matching the actual sequence of happenings. The theories discussed in the textbook about the origins of language are not at most a speculation猜测.F The definition, “Language is a tool for human communication.” has no problem. (F) The definition just focuses on the function of language, which does not include the nature and features of language. The definition, “language is a set of rules”, tells nothing about its functions.T Linguistics 1. Explain the following definition of linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The word “language” preceded by the zero article in English implies that linguistics studies not any particular language, but languages in general. The word ‘study’ does not mean ‘learning’, but ‘investigation’ or ‘examination’. The word ‘scientific’ refers to the way in which language is studied. A scientific study is