Paper 1 · Communication
UGC NET December 2021 June 2022 (10.10.2022) Shift-I
Given below are two statements. Statement I: Communicative language is used by people to get sympathy, ignore fellow travellers, placate or embarrass enemies and comfort friends. Statement II: As a tool of communication, language suffers from emotional loadings, polar words and fictitious concepts. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
- Statement I: Communicative language is used to get sympathy, ignore fellow travellers, placate or embarrass enemies and comfort friends.
- Statement II: As a tool of communication, language suffers from emotional loadings, polar words and fictitious concepts.
ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true ✓ Correct
BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false
CStatement I is true but Statement II is false
DStatement I is false but Statement II is true
Correct answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true — The answer is that both statements are true.
Explanation
★The answer is that both statements are true.
★People do use communicative language to seek sympathy, to placate or embarrass, and to comfort others, making Statement I true.
★Language as a tool does carry emotional loadings, polar words and fictitious concepts, making Statement II true.
★The two statements together show both the uses and the flaws of language.
★So both hold.
★Language serves social purposes yet is not a perfectly neutral tool.
★So the answer is that both statements are true.
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