Discourse Analysis exams Questions
and Answers | New One | Grade A+
Practice: Is Obama's speech syntactically cohesive? Do you find instances of, for instance,
ellipsis, reference or conjunction that make the text a cohesive whole?
a) cohesion
b) coherence
c) intentionality
Ans: a
De Beaugrande and Dessder (1981) define "text" as a communicative event that must satisfy
seven criteria. Which of the following is NOT included among these criteria?
a) Accountability
b) Intentionality
c) Situationality
Ans: a
Z. Harris was the first linguist to use the term...
a) Text Linguistics
b) Text Grammar
,c) Discourse Analysis
Ans: c
Discourse analysis uses more than one semiotic system, so it is...
a) Multimodal
b) Poliphonous
c) Multifunctional
Ans: a
Discourse analysis is concerned with the study of...
a) Sentences
b) Language in use
c) Formal systems
Ans: b
As Taylor (2001:24) remarks, one of the processes by which material becomes data is:
a) Interpretation
b) Selection
c) Grammatical analysis
Ans: b
,An essential aspect of data collection in research involving spoken discourse is:
a) Transcription
b) Translation
c) Transduction
Ans: a
When doing discourse analysis, it is an ethical requirement that the researcher:
a) protect all participants
b) protect anonimity
c) hide from the participants
Ans: a
The first computerized corpus in the history of linguistics was...
a) The British National Corpus
b) The Brown University Corpus of American English
c) The Cambridge University Corpus
Ans: b
Which of the following categories is NOT mentioned in Reich's taxonomy of corpora:
, a) Political variation
b) Geographical variation
c) Historical variation
Ans: a
One of the main concerns of Interactional Sociolinguistics is:
a) Anthropology
b) Vocabulary
c) Contextualization
Ans: c
Before the year 1960, all semantic theories paid particular attention to:
a) Truth conditions
b) Politeness
c) Social interaction
Ans: a
"I am delighted to inform you that you are the winner!" is an example of:
a) Positive Politeness
b) Negative Politeness
and Answers | New One | Grade A+
Practice: Is Obama's speech syntactically cohesive? Do you find instances of, for instance,
ellipsis, reference or conjunction that make the text a cohesive whole?
a) cohesion
b) coherence
c) intentionality
Ans: a
De Beaugrande and Dessder (1981) define "text" as a communicative event that must satisfy
seven criteria. Which of the following is NOT included among these criteria?
a) Accountability
b) Intentionality
c) Situationality
Ans: a
Z. Harris was the first linguist to use the term...
a) Text Linguistics
b) Text Grammar
,c) Discourse Analysis
Ans: c
Discourse analysis uses more than one semiotic system, so it is...
a) Multimodal
b) Poliphonous
c) Multifunctional
Ans: a
Discourse analysis is concerned with the study of...
a) Sentences
b) Language in use
c) Formal systems
Ans: b
As Taylor (2001:24) remarks, one of the processes by which material becomes data is:
a) Interpretation
b) Selection
c) Grammatical analysis
Ans: b
,An essential aspect of data collection in research involving spoken discourse is:
a) Transcription
b) Translation
c) Transduction
Ans: a
When doing discourse analysis, it is an ethical requirement that the researcher:
a) protect all participants
b) protect anonimity
c) hide from the participants
Ans: a
The first computerized corpus in the history of linguistics was...
a) The British National Corpus
b) The Brown University Corpus of American English
c) The Cambridge University Corpus
Ans: b
Which of the following categories is NOT mentioned in Reich's taxonomy of corpora:
, a) Political variation
b) Geographical variation
c) Historical variation
Ans: a
One of the main concerns of Interactional Sociolinguistics is:
a) Anthropology
b) Vocabulary
c) Contextualization
Ans: c
Before the year 1960, all semantic theories paid particular attention to:
a) Truth conditions
b) Politeness
c) Social interaction
Ans: a
"I am delighted to inform you that you are the winner!" is an example of:
a) Positive Politeness
b) Negative Politeness
