ENG523 Final Term Past Papers

Objective

1. The study of phoneme and their articulation is called (segmental)
2. Apposition and clarification are two types of . (elaboration)
3. A corpus is a corpus of texts of a particular type, such as

newspaper editorials, geography textbooks, academic articles in a particular

subject. (specialized)

4. The term has generated substantial controversy in the field of general

and applied linguistics. (competence)

5. a collection of spoken or written authentic texts that is representative of a

particular area of language use is termed as . (Corpus)

6. words that typically occur together are called . (collocation)
7. Systematic qualitative analysis in the discourse-historical approach (DHA) takes

layers of context. (four)

8. the most exciting developments in the analysis of discourse have been in

studies. (intonation)

9. What does EAP stands for? (English for Academic Purposes)

10. A representative corpus must enable analysis of the features. (all of the

given, across text types, within text, across texts)

11. Who studied the language of personal ads on the World Wide Web?

(Vincent B.Y. Ooi)

12. Which conjunctions includes replacive, subtractive, and alternative types?

(Extension)

13. The unit of sounds in a language that differentiate one word from another

are called (Phoneme)

14. Corpus studies draw on collections of texts that are usually stored and

analyzed (electronically).

15. When did English with academic purposes (EAP) emerged in the academic

discipline? (1980s)

16. The references to assume shared words outside the text are called .

(exophoric) 17. Who divided modalities into those that contain an element of will and those

who contain no element of will? (Otto Jesperson)

18. Generally, intonation units with a pitch boundary. (end)

19. Genre analysis see texts as representative of wider practices. (rhetorical)

20. qualifying a clause some circumstantial feature of time, place, cause or

condition is called its (enhancement)

21. discourse historical approach distinguishes between three dimensions that

are (topics that are spoken, discursive strategies, all of the given, textual

meanings)

22. English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is usually defined as English

with the aim of assisting learners. (teaching)

23. The stress on a syllable within a word is called stress. (lexical)

24. The general words that correspond to major classes of lexical items, are

very commonly used with force. (cohesive)

25. who introduced the concept of discourse-organizing words? (McCarthy

and Carter)

26. syllables which stand out in the flow of talk are uttered with a relatively

intensity. (greater)

27. English is often called a/an language. (VOS)

28. Henry’s bought himself a new Jaguar. He practically lives in the car. Here,

the car is a . (superordinate)

29. George Von Wright was a (Philosopher)

30. Who proposed that the logical treatment of modalities is too narrow,

because it is centered on truth values of propositions? (Sulkunen and Törrönen)

31. Rose is a of flower (hyponym)

32. A general corpus is also called . (reference corpus)

33. When we listen to stretch of spoken English discourse, we often feel there

is a/an to it. (rhythm)

34. The study of phoneme and their articulation is called level. (segmental)

35. Stress on a word, phrase or sentence is called level stress. (sentence)

36. Prosodic stress is also called (word level) 37. Syllables which stand out in the flow of talk will be referred to as syllables

(prominent)

38. Genre analysis can be seen as a more specific form of (discourse analysis)

39. Brown and Yule (1983) see the nature of reference in text and in discourse

as an action on the part of a/an (speaker/writer)

40. Discourse analysis is looking at texts in relation to the contexts in which

they are used. (social)

41. reference to assumed shared worlds outside the text are called

(exophoric)