🧠 More practice: Saussure & Structuralism MCQs, Semiotics & Lévi-Strauss MCQs in the topic-wise 1000+ Literary Theory MCQs, solved with explanations.
UGC-NET PYQs
1. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is:
(a) An interlocking structure
(b) A System of constant change.
(c) A system of signs.
(d) A self-standing formation.
(b) A System of constant change.
(c) A system of signs.
(d) A self-standing formation.
2. Who is the author of “The Typology of Detective Fiction”?
3. Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:
A) Structuralist Poetics
B) Course in General Linguistics
C) The Pursuit of Signs
D) The Pleasure of the Text
E) The Implied Reader
B) Course in General Linguistics
C) The Pursuit of Signs
D) The Pleasure of the Text
E) The Implied Reader
4. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Things acquire a rational signification, and not only one of simple usage, because another is associated with my relations with them.
Statement II: In designating a thing, I designate it to the other.
Statement II: In designating a thing, I designate it to the other.
5. The science that systematically studies the function of signs is known as
6. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): From a sociolinguistic point of view, mainstream SLA studies remain asocial-the social import of learning to interact through language remains hidden.
Reason (R): A sociolinguistic perspective focusses on the linguistic system as well as on a concern with specific items of pragmatic and discourse development and rejects the tendency of looking at language as a set of norms, at language diversity and ideologies.
7. Which of the following is NOT a kind of ‘sign’ as suggested by Charles Sanders Peirce?
8. According to Gerard Genette, which of the following are types of narrators?
[A] Extradiegetic
[B] Heterodiegetic
[C] Intradiegetic
[D] Homodiegetic
[E] Intradiegetic
[B] Heterodiegetic
[C] Intradiegetic
[D] Homodiegetic
[E] Intradiegetic
9. Match the following:
LIST I LIST II
A) Anthropology I. Edward SojaB) Postmodern Geography II. Martin Heidegger
C) Diaspora Space III. Claude Lévi-Strauss
D) Dasein IV. Avtar Brah
10. Arrange the works in chronological sequence:
A) Structuralist Poetics
B) Course in General Linguistics
C) The Pursuit of Signs
D) The Pleasure of the Text
E) The Implied Reader
B) Course in General Linguistics
C) The Pursuit of Signs
D) The Pleasure of the Text
E) The Implied Reader
11. Saussure delivered his series of lectures on general linguistics, later published after his death as Course in General Linguistics, at the University of ___________
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