ENG523 Final Term MCQs by Zainee Academy

1. The most exciting developments in the analysis of discourse have been in intonation studies rather than at the segmental level.
2. Henry’s bought himself a new Jaguar. Here, car refers back to Jaguar; and the car is a superordinate of Jaguar.
3. Holism means that a part of something can only truly be understood if examined within relation to the whole of it.
4. DHA distinguishes between three dimensions that constitute textual meanings and structures.

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Q6. What is desirable and what is---?

1. Real
2. Actual
3. Relativism means that judgments, truths, or moral values have no absolutes, and can only be understood relative to the situation or individuals involved.
4. Ethnomethodology, whilst technically rooted in sociology.
5. prosodic stress is called sentence level.
6. An intonation unit is a segment of speech.
7. A faster speaker will generally use fewer intonation units.
8. Media discourse refers to interactions that take place through a broadcast platform, whether spoken or written.
9. Levelt (1981) suggested that, it is natural to put the event that happened first before the event which followed it.

Q14. The theory of communicative action rationally is given by----?

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Q16. Who said a “series of hierarchically ordered categories” that helps define the discourse.

1. Van dijik
2. Whiliam lablov’s
3. The term “sociolinguistic” for work that involves variation and style in the media or a similar close analysis of language.
4. DRT stands for Discourse Representation Theory.
5. First-person is the speaker or writer him- or herself.
6. SFL stands for systemic functional linguistics.
7. How many classes do pronoun includes? (Three)
8. The term discourse analysis is thought to have first appeared in 1952 in the title of a paper by Zellig Harris.
9. The book qualitative method in Sociolinguistics is written by Johnstone (2000) lists a number of criteria that contribute to the development of a good and workable research topic.
10. Joanna Channell’s (1997) study of telephone conversations took already published data, a conversation supposed to be between the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles, and analyzed it to see in what way the speakers expressed love.
11. Hasan (1989) have suggested that the crucial properties of a genre can be expressed as a range of possible textual structures.
12. Fairclough and Wodak describe a number of principles for critical discourse analysis in 1997.
13. Newspaper reports and academic essays are examples of written genres.
14. Academic lectures and casual conversations are examples of spoken genres.
15. Genres are ways in which people ‘get things done’ through their use of spoken and written discourse.

Q30. Discourse methodology consist of---?

1. Discourse ethics
2. Data generation
3. Confidentiality
4. All of these

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