Text Analysis I, 2019-2020 (VERSION 23 March 2020)
MOCK EXAM
1. Renkema & Schubert discuss Jakobson’s (1960) typology of discourse functions. Jakobson classifies
linguistic information regarding the addressor’s (or: sender’s) attitudes as belonging to the
a. referential function
b. poetic function
c. emotive function
d. conative function
2. A move is
a. A conventional component of a genre, on the level of content or function.
b. A rhetorically motivated deviation from genre conventions.
c. A communicative purpose associated with a given genre.
d. A stylistic feature associated with a given genre.
3. The underlined expression in the sentence below is adequately referred to with the term(s)
Sarah missed the train because she had overslept.
a. Conjunction
b. Connective
c. Discourse marker
d. All of the above
4. Consider the rhetorical relation below.
Gerald was tired. He went off to bed.
This relation is adequately characterized as:
a. Causal, pragmatic, positive
b. Causal, semantic, positive
c. Causal, pragmatic, negative
d. Causal, semantic, negative
MOCK EXAM
1. Renkema & Schubert discuss Jakobson’s (1960) typology of discourse functions. Jakobson classifies
linguistic information regarding the addressor’s (or: sender’s) attitudes as belonging to the
a. referential function
b. poetic function
c. emotive function
d. conative function
2. A move is
a. A conventional component of a genre, on the level of content or function.
b. A rhetorically motivated deviation from genre conventions.
c. A communicative purpose associated with a given genre.
d. A stylistic feature associated with a given genre.
3. The underlined expression in the sentence below is adequately referred to with the term(s)
Sarah missed the train because she had overslept.
a. Conjunction
b. Connective
c. Discourse marker
d. All of the above
4. Consider the rhetorical relation below.
Gerald was tired. He went off to bed.
This relation is adequately characterized as:
a. Causal, pragmatic, positive
b. Causal, semantic, positive
c. Causal, pragmatic, negative
d. Causal, semantic, negative
