Question

Let me start with a story. I began my academic career 40 years ago as a linguist studying the structure of language ("grammar"). At that time, thanks to the seminal work of Noam Chomsky, the fashionable thing to study was the basic design properties of language, the core grammatical properties that all human languages shared. There was much less interest in meaning and in language in use. The study of language was then a pretty abstract affair.

GEE, J. P. Literacy and education. New York: Routledge, 2015 (adapted).

The excerpt conveys the idea that the study of language some decades ago was different from today. Consider the following statements about such change.

I. Nowadays language studies involve applied linguistics, an area concerned with the relationship between languages and human activity.
II. Applied linguistics emphasizes situations of language use.
III. The main focus of applied linguistics is the description of universal language patterns that users are supposed to adopt.


lt is correct what is stated on

a.
II and III, only.

b.
III, only.

c.
I, only.

d.
I, II, and III.

e.
I and II, only.

Answer 1

Resposta: I and II, only