ENG523 Final Term Quiz

ENG523

ABSTRACT

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Maha Malik

Discourse Analysis

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. Identity becomes very especially because of racism (subjective)
9. A system is an interrelated collection of signs or symbols. (coherence)

10. Halliday (1985) functional linguistic theory viewed language as a .

(social fact)

11. Conversational experience and social context of language development is

mediated by cognitive structure is known as approach. (socio-cognitive)

12. Anthropology is a unique academic discipline that operates at the

crossroads of the . (physical sciences)

13. A conversation is an activity in which one person listens while the other

person speaks is called . (turn-taking)

14. Interactional socio-linguistics deals with the existence of subtle on

the systematic combination of verbal and non-verbal signs. (cultural

differences)

15. Blogs and webpages are also other examples of . (trans-media)

16. The study of how linguistics varies from one place to the next and one

speaker to the next is called . (comparative linguistics)

17. means that judgments, truths, or moral values have no absolutes,

and can only be understood relative to the situation or individuals involved.

(Relativism)

18. Judgments, truths, or moral values have no absolutes, and can only be

understood relative to the situation. (relativism) 19. Interaction that takes place through a broadcast platform, whether spoken

or written is called discourse. (media)

20. Discursive psychology starts with a focus on discourse as a central

resource for performing . (action)

21. Which is considered as a biological and genetically determined concept?

(race)

22. The term that involves variation and style in the media or a close analysis

of language is . (sociolinguistics)

23. The language of science is a multimedia or, more precisely, a

multimodal semiotic system. (language)

24. Historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied symbols is called

. (culture)

25. Religious texts are assumed to be filled with . (metaphor)

26. Discourse approaches is the primary focus of scholars in the study

of media discourse. (analytic)

27. In the late , theorists suggested that the surface realization of

language represented the transformation of an underlying reality. (1970s)

28. Discourse studied as a cross discipline, emerged in all the humanities and

social sciences years ago in the USA. (50)

29. Who among the following outlines a “theory of discourse schemata”?

(Van Dijik)

30. The media texts may throw up discourses and are called . (binary

oppositions)

31. A part of something can only truly be understood if examined within

relation to the whole of it is called . (Holism)

32. means that a part of something can only truly be understood if

examined within relation to the whole of it. (Holism)

33. Who argues that CDA should not be seen as a method but as a form of

critically driven theory and practice? (Van Dijk)

34. Whose framework has been used to examine the global narrative structure?

(William Labov’s)

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

studies. (intonation)