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Henkilötunnus Valintatoimiston merkintöjäENG A (D)

Puhelinnumero Sähköpostiosoite

Helsingin yliopistoHumanistinen tiedekunta

Hakukohteen "englanti" valintakoe 2015

Tarkista sivunumeroiden avulla, että olet saanut kaikki sivut.

Kirjoita henkilö- ja yhteystietosi niille varattuihin tiloihin. Jos sinulla ei ole suomalaista henkilötunnusta,kirjoita sen asemesta syntymäaikasi.

Kirjoita kukin vastaus sille varattuun tilaan. Vastauksen on mahduttava kokonaisuudessaan sillevarattuun tilaan. Arvostelija jättää huomioimatta merkinnät, joita ei ole tehty vastaukselle varattuuntilaan.

Jos vastaukselle on ilmoitettu enimmäispituus, älä ylitä sitä. Arvostelija jättää huomioimatta vastauksenosan, joka ylittää enimmäispituuden.

Kirjoita selvällä käsialalla. Arvostelija jättää huomioimatta merkinnät, jotka ovat epäselviä tai tulkinnan-varaisia.

Kun olet vastannut tehtäviin, järjestä sivut sivunumeroiden mukaiseen järjestykseen ja palauta kaikkisivut salin etuosassa olevalle valvojalle. Palauta kaikki sivut myös siinä tapauksessa, ettet vastannutjoihinkin tehtäviin. Todista henkilöllisyytesi sivuja palauttaessasi.

Ruutupaperiarkille voit luonnostella vastauksia ja tehdä muita muistiinpanoja. Älä kirjoita ruutupaperi-arkille varsinaisia vastauksia. Vie ruutupaperiarkki mukanasi tai jätä se koesalissa olevaan paperinkeräys-laatikkoon.

Pisteytys:

Osa Voit saada Sinut voidaan valita vain, jos saat1 0–33 pistettä vähintään 10 pistettä2 0–34 pistettä vähintään 11 pistettä3 0–33 pistettä vähintään 10 pistettäyhteensä 0–100 pistettä vähintään 50 pistettä

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Text A: Robinson Jeffers, “Fire on the Hills”

[Teksti on jätetty pois koemonisteen verkkoversiosta.]

Text B: extract from William Shakespeare, Othello

Iago: My noble lord!Othello: What dost thou say Iago?Iago: Did Michael Cassio, when you woo’d my lady (95)

Know of your love?Othello: He did, from first to last. Why dost thou ask?Iago: But for a satisfaction of my thought—

No further harm.Othello: Why of thy thought, Iago? (100)Iago: I did not think he had been acquainted with her.Othello: O, yes; and went between us very often.Iago: Indeed!Othello: Indeed? Ay, indeed. Discerns’t thou aught in that?

Is he not honest? (105)Iago: Honest, my lord?Othello: Honest? Ay, honest.Iago: My lord, for aught I know.Othello: What dost thou think?Iago: Think, my lord? (110)Othello: Think, my lord! By heaven, he echoes me,

As if there were some monster in his thoughtToo hideous to be shown. . .

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Text C: extract from Katherine Mansfield, “The Fly”

[Teksti on jätetty pois koemonisteen verkkoversiosta.]

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Henkilötunnus Valintatoimiston merkintöjäENG B (D)

Part 1 (33 points)

Demonstrating an understanding of both the terminology and analytical method of Mick Short’sExploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose, answer the following questions. Note that precisionand concision are more important than the length of your answers. You will not receive any credit forinformation that does not pertain to the question at hand. You should write your answers in English inthe spaces provided.

1.1. Read the Robinson Jeffers poem “Fire on the Hills” (text A on page 2) and answer the followingquestions.

a) Identify 2 phonetic patterns (e.g. instances of alliteration or assonance) or other sound effects andassess their significance. (2+2 points)

i)

ii)

b) Identify 1 other deviation (not connected to phonetics/sound) and assess its significance. (2 points)

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c) Examine the metaphor cloaked in the folded storms of his shoulders (line 8). What makes this phrasea metaphor? What do you understand by the phrase? What are the inferential steps which you wouldneed to use to get from the structure of the phrase to the meaning you have assigned to it? (6 points)

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1.2. Read the extract from William Shakespeare’s Othello (text B on page 2), where Iago is trying toconvince Othello that Othello’s wife Desdemona has been unfaithful to him with Michael Cassio(from Act 3, scene 3, lines 93-113). Answer the following questions.

a) What do you infer to be the social and personal relationship between Iago and Othello in thisextract? How do you know this? (5 points)

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b) Given what you understand of speech acts, felicity conditions, turn-taking, conversational maxims,etc., try to explain how it is that Iago engineers Othello to believe that his wife, Desdemona, hasbeen unfaithful to him with Michael Cassio. (6 points)

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1.3. In the excerpt from the opening of Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Fly” (text C on page 3), aretired worker is visiting the newly-refurbished office of his former boss. The sentences arenumbered for ease of reference.

a) The point of view seems to shift in this excerpt. Identify the points of view, giving linguisticindicators of each. Identify places where the point of view shifts and justify your answer. Whatseem to be the main functions of the shifts in point of view? (6 points)

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b) Identify the types of speech and thought presentation in sentences 13-15, and briefly comment onthe effects achieved with them. (4 points)

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Part 2 (34 points)

This part is based on the book by George Yule, and it includes two sections. The first section consists of25 multiple-choice questions, and the second part consists of seven short tasks. The maximum totalscore for this part of the exam is 34 points.

2.1 (20 points)

Answer the following multiple-choice questions by writing the letter (a, b, c or d) of the correct answeron page 14. There is only one correct answer for each question.

1. Which of the following is NOT a property of human language?

a) productivityb) arbitrarinessc) fixed referenced) reflexivity

2. What are the tenses of English verbs?

a) present tense, past tense and future tenseb) present tense, past tense and active tensec) present tense and past tensed) present tense, past tense and perfect tense

3. When speaking to someone with higher status, English-speakers today are likely to indicate theunequal power relationship by

a) addressing the other person with their first nameb) addressing the other person with a titlec) addressing the other person with a kinship termd) addressing the other person with a nickname

4. The sound [p] in the English word pop is best described as

a) a voiced velar stopb) a voiceless alveolar fricativec) a voiceless bilabial stopd) a voiced dental fricative

5. What type of sound change does the following word pair illustrate: thridda → third

a) epenthesisb) metathesisc) sound lossd) prothesis

6. The linguistic field of discourse analysis is typically concerned with

a) accurate representations of the forms and structures of languageb) the study of language in texts and conversationc) the study of meanings of words, phrases and sentencesd) the description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language

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7. The sound [æ] in the English word hat is best described as

a) a high back vowelb) a mid front vowelc) a low front voweld) a mid back vowel

8. The word brunch is an example of word formation through

a) clippingb) coinagec) calqued) blending

9. Which of the following phrases does NOT correspond to the rule “NP → {Art (Adj) N, Pro} (PP)”?

a) a new car given to meb) the little house on the prairiec) hed) an easy task

10. Deixis is a concept used in the field of

a) pragmaticsb) semanticsc) syntaxd) discourse analysis

11. Which two of the following words would be treated as minimal pairs:pat, tap, pen, chain, vote, tale, vet

a) tap and taleb) vet and votec) tap and patd) pen and chain

12. Aphasia is defined as

a) additional information used by a listener to create a connection between what is said and whatmust be meant

b) the description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a languagec) the gradual development of ability in a language by using it naturally in communicative situations

with others who know the languaged) an impairment of language function due to localized brain damage

13. The word pair duck/bird is an example of

a) synonymyb) polysemyc) homonymyd) hyponymy

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14. Which of the following phenomena is NOT associated specifically with second language learning?

a) transferb) inferencec) instrumental motivationd) interlanguage

15. Which of the following kinds of morphemes is NOT present in the word unhappiness?

a) a bound morphemeb) a derivational morphemec) an inflectional morphemed) a lexical morpheme

16. Modifying our speech to be more like the speech of the person we are talking to in order to reducesocial distance is called

a) prestigeb) social markingc) convergenced) idiolect

17. An example of a synchronic study of language is a study that

a) attempts to reconstruct a language that no longer existsb) compares different modern languages that are related to each otherc) looks at how one language has changed over a long period of timed) analyzes how one language is used by different groups of people at the same time

18. Which of the following competencies is NOT a component of communicative competence?

a) strategic competenceb) grammatical competencec) sociolinguistic competenced) lexical competence

19. The beginning of the Middle English period is marked by

a) the Viking raids and settlement of Englandb) the arrival of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in Englandc) the arrival of the Norman French in Englandd) the introduction of printing to England

20. Which of the following is NOT a Gricean maxim?

a) the Relation maximb) the Quantity maximc) the Politeness maximd) the Manner maxim

21. What does an isogloss represent in a linguistic atlas?

a) a geographical boundaryb) a boundary between areas with regard to particular linguistic itemsc) the area where the standard language is spokend) the area of a dialect continuum

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22. Which of the following terms refers to a part of speech (that is, a word class):

a) inflectionb) genderc) morphemed) noun

23. Which of the following statements illustrates the idea called linguistic determinism:

a) language determines how people perceive the worldb) phrase structure rules determine the order and type of constituents in a phrasec) new words are formed by analogy to existing wordsd) close similarities in particular sets of words are determined by the fact that the languages are

related to each other

24. The words forgetful, enjoyment and disheartening all contain an element called

a) a prefixb) a suffixc) an infixd) a bifix

25. The sentence Close the door! is NOT

a) a face-threatening actb) an imperativec) a direct speech actd) a presupposition

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Henkilötunnus Valintatoimiston merkintöjäENG C (D)

Answers to the multiple-choice questions

Answer the multiple-choice questions on pages 10–13 by writing the letter (a, b, c or d) of the correctanswer after the number of the question:

1.2.3.4.5.6.

7.8.9.10.11.12.13.

14.15.16.17.18.19.20.21.

22.23.24.25.

There is only one correct answer for each question. You need to give five correct answers before youstart to gain points. After the five correct answers, you will receive 1 point for each correct answer. Youget 0 points for each wrong or blank answer. Note that you will not receive any points if you give morethan one answer, even if one of your answers is correct.

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2.2 (14 points)

Complete the seven tasks below. Write all your answers in English. All answers must fit into the spaceprovided on the sheet. Each task is worth a total of 2 points. The maximum length for each answer is 80words, but a good answer may well be much shorter. You will not receive any points for informationthat does not pertain to the task at hand.

1. Perform a labeled and bracketed analysis of the constituent structure of the following sentence:

The old man gave a flower to the children.

When labeling, use the following abbreviated grammatical terms (you may use some more than onceand others not all): Adj, Adv, Art, N, NP, PN, PP, Prep, Pro, S, V, VP

2. You have the following data for three related languages. Write down the most likely proto-forms A, Band C. Then use general principles of comparative reconstruction to justify your answers.

Language 1 Language 2 Language 3 proto-form meaningcosa chose cosa A “thing”capo chef cabo B “head”capra chèvre cabra C “goat”

Proto-form A = _______________ Proto-form B = _______________ Proto-form C = _______________

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3. Write down all the anaphoric expressions in the following sentences:

My sister and I gave my brother John a kitten as a birthday present, because we know that heand his wife love animals. The cat was completely white, so they named it Snowball.

4. Answer the following question: what is a pidgin?

5. Look at the table below. Supply the two linguistic terms (A and B) that label the two columns. Thenexplain what the table illustrates, i.e. explain the relationship between columns A and B.

A = B =

A B[k]

/k/ [kh]

[k˚]

/l/[l]

[ɫ]

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6. Explain why English spelling does not correspond to the way English is pronounced.

7. Give an example of a speech community and explain how your example illustrates the concept.

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Henkilötunnus Valintatoimiston merkintöjäENG D (D)

Part 3 (33 points)

3.1. (15 points)

3.1.a. Write an essay (maximum of 350 words) in English describing the six general rules Hilaire Bellocsets down for translators of prose texts. Note that precision and concision are more important than thelength of your answers. You will not receive any credit for information that does not pertain to thequestion at hand or for information that is not based upon Bassnett’s book. You should write youressay in the space provided. (9 points)

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3.1.b. Kuvaa prosessia, jossa englannin pronomini “you” käännetään suomen (tai ruotsin) kielelle. Kuvaaprosessia Eugene Nidan käännösprosessista esittämän mallin avulla. Kirjoita vastauksesi suomeksi tairuotsiksi esseemuodossa. Kirjoita vastauksesi annettuun tilaan. Vastauksen maksimipituus on 250 sanaa.Vastauksessasi voit tarpeen vaatiessa käyttää tarkennuksina alkuperäisiä englanninkielisiä ilmauksia, josvastauksen selkeys sitä edellyttää. Vastauksen pituutta tärkeämpää on sen sisältämä tieto, eikä vastaussaa ylittää sille varattua tilaa. Et saa pisteitä informaatiosta, joka ei liity kysymykseen tai joka ei perustuBassnettin kirjaan. (6 pistettä)

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3.2 (18 pistettä)

Vastaa alla oleviin yhdeksään kysymykseen suomeksi tai ruotsiksi korkeintaan 50 sanalla kutakinkysymystä kohden. Kirjoita vastauksesi annettuun tilaan. Vastauksessasi voit tarpeen vaatiessa käyttäätarkennuksina alkuperäisiä englanninkielisiä ilmauksia, jos vastauksen selkeys sitä edellyttää. Vastauksenpituutta tärkeämpää on sen sisältämä tieto, eikä vastaus saa ylittää sille varattua tilaa. Kukin vastaus on0 - 2 pisteen arvoinen. Et saa pisteitä informaatiosta, joka ei liity kysymykseen tai joka ei perustuBassnettin kirjaan.

1. Miten Bassnett määrittelee Julia Kristevan intertekstuaalisuuden (intertextuality) käsitteentodetessaan sen kääntämisen opiskelijan kannalta tärkeäksi?

2. Mitä Levý sanoo kääntämisestä koskien poisjättöjä tai tekstin lyhentämistä hankalien ilmaustenkohdalla?

3. Miten funktionaalinen teoreettinen lähestymistapa (functionalist approach) kääntämiseen voihyödyttää kirjallisuuden kääntäjiä?

4. Miten polysysteemiteoria (polysystems theory) muutti kääntämisen tutkimuksen fokusta?

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5. Mihin neljään osa-alueeseen käännöstutkimuksen kenttä voidaan karkeasti jakaa?

6. Mitä André Lefevere sanoo puhuessaan tulkinnasta (interpretation) runojen kääntämisenyhteydessä?

7. Mitä Popovič tarkoittaa lingvistisellä ekvivalenssilla (linguistic equivalence)?

8. Millä perusteella Gianfranco Folenan mukaan keskiajan käännökset voidaan jakaa niin sanottuihinhorisontaaleihin ja vertikaalisiin käännöksiin (horizontal, vertical)?

9. Mainitse kaksi Popovičin kuvaamista viidestä vaihdosta (shift), joita käännösprosessissa voi tapahtua.Jos mainitset useamman kuin kaksi vaihtoa, saat vastauksestasi 0 pistettä riippumatta siitä sisältääkövastauksesi Popovičin kuvaamia vaihtoja vai ei.

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Efternamn Samtliga förnamn

Personbeteckning Urvalsbyråns anteckningarENG A (D)

Telefonnummer E-postadress

Helsingfors universitetHumanistiska fakulteten

Urvalsprovet för ansökningsobjektet "engelska" 2015

Kontrollera med hjälp av sidnumren att du har fått alla sidor.

Fyll i dina person- och kontaktuppgifter i fälten avsedda för detta. Om du inte har en finsk person-beteckning, fyll istället i ditt födelsedatum.

Skriv varje svar inom utrymmet avsett för detta. Svaret måste rymmas i sin helhet i det avseddautrymmet. Bedömaren ignorerar anteckningar som inte ligger inom utrymmet som är avsett för svaret.

Om det angivits en maximal svarslängd ska du inte överskrida den. Bedömaren ignorerar den del avsvaret som överskrider den maximala svarslängden.

Skriv med tydlig handstil. Bedömaren ignorerar anteckningar som är otydliga eller mångtydiga.

När du besvarat uppgifterna, ska du ordna sidorna enligt sidnummer och lämna in alla sidor till över-vakaren framme i salen. Lämna in alla sidor även om du lämnat någon uppgift obesvarad. Då du lämnarin provsidorna ska du legitimera dig.

På det rutiga pappret kan du skriva utkast till svar och göra andra anteckningar. Skriv inte de slutligasvaren på det rutiga pappret. Ta med dig det rutiga pappret eller lämna det i pappersinsamlingslådansom finns i salen.

Poängsättning:

Del Du kan få Du kan bli antagen bara om du får1 0–33 poäng minst 10 poäng2 0–34 poäng minst 11 poäng3 0–33 poäng minst 10 poängtotalt 0–100 poäng minst 50 poäng

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Text A: Robinson Jeffers, “Fire on the Hills”

[Texten har utelämnats ur provkopians web-version.]

Text B: extract from William Shakespeare, Othello

Iago: My noble lord!Othello: What dost thou say Iago?Iago: Did Michael Cassio, when you woo’d my lady (95)

Know of your love?Othello: He did, from first to last. Why dost thou ask?Iago: But for a satisfaction of my thought—

No further harm.Othello: Why of thy thought, Iago? (100)Iago: I did not think he had been acquainted with her.Othello: O, yes; and went between us very often.Iago: Indeed!Othello: Indeed? Ay, indeed. Discerns’t thou aught in that?

Is he not honest? (105)Iago: Honest, my lord?Othello: Honest? Ay, honest.Iago: My lord, for aught I know.Othello: What dost thou think?Iago: Think, my lord? (110)Othello: Think, my lord! By heaven, he echoes me,

As if there were some monster in his thoughtToo hideous to be shown. . .

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Text C: extract from Katherine Mansfield, “The Fly”

[Texten har utelämnats ur provkopians web-version.]

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Personbeteckning Urvalsbyråns anteckningarENG B (D)

Part 1 (33 points)

Demonstrating an understanding of both the terminology and analytical method of Mick Short’sExploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose, answer the following questions. Note that precisionand concision are more important than the length of your answers. You will not receive any credit forinformation that does not pertain to the question at hand. You should write your answers in English inthe spaces provided.

1.1. Read the Robinson Jeffers poem “Fire on the Hills” (text A on page 2) and answer the followingquestions.

a) Identify 2 phonetic patterns (e.g. instances of alliteration or assonance) or other sound effects andassess their significance. (2+2 points)

i)

ii)

b) Identify 1 other deviation (not connected to phonetics/sound) and assess its significance. (2 points)