ENG523 Midterm Quizzes

1.

Pairs of utterances such as greeting-greeting and apology-acceptance are called .

(adjacency pairs)

2.

In the field of research, when did psychologists start using discourse analysis?

(1960)

3.

Who developed a model for the description of teacher-pupil talk, based on a

hierarchy of discourse units? (Sinclair and Coulthard)

4.

The usage of linguistic devices to join sentences together, including conjunctions

and reference words is called . (cohesion)

5.

Conversation analysis is an approach to the analysis of discourse. (spoken)

6.

Halliday’s framework emphasizes on the of speech and writing.

(thematicstructure, informational structure, social-functions, all of the given)

7.

Conversation analysis works with the recordings of data and carries out

careful and fine-grained analyses. (spoken)

8.

What discourse markers are used for? (joining ideas)

9.

A/An is a unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn

each by the two speakers. (adjacency pair)

10.

The field of discourse analysis emerged in . (1950)

11.

12.

Right and left carats indicate that the talk between them was . (compressed)

13.

Discourse analysis is concerned with the study of the relationship between

language, context and . (culture)

14.

An activity in which two or more people take turns to speak is called .

(conversation)

15.

Conversation analysis works with the recordings of data and carries out

careful and fine-grained. (spoken)

16.

A hyphen indicates an abrupt cut-off or of the sound in progress.

(selfinterruption)

17.

Discourse markers are used . (delaying tactic, all of the given option, the

initiate discourse, to mark a boundary)

18.

Boundary exchanges contain two moves which are . (framing and focusing)

19.

Stories are warning others about the dangers or negative consequences surrounding

the topic at hand. (cautionary)

20.

Context within the discourse, that is, the relationship between the words, phrases,

sentences and even paragraphs known as context. (linguistic)

21. · 22. · 23.

Teaching exchanges in speech language can be further divided into

subcategories. (eleven)

24.

According to Willis Towers Watson, a group of people used in their writing.

(symbols)

25.

Anecdotes are valuable literary devices because of their diversity in style, tone, and

. (utility)

26.

‘essay’ and ‘notice’ are part of . (text analysis)

27.

Zellig Harris was interested in the distribution of in extended texts.

(Linguistic elements)

28.

A hyphen indicates an abrupt cut-off or of the sound in progress.

(selfinterruption)

29.

Rhetoric is the , practice and study of human communication. (art)

30.

Conversation analysis (CA) is an approach to the study of social interaction that

emerged in the . (1960s)

31.

Conversation analysis is an approach is the analysis of discourse. (spoken)

32.

Conversation analysis works with the recordings of . (spoken)

33.

Which one is a type of communicative event in which speech is the main

component? (speech event)

34.

The analysis of language beyond the sentences is called . (discourse analysis)

35.

Discourse refers to information which can only be interpreted by reference to .

(context)

36.

In speech events, there is enormous in what people say in different

circumstances. (likeness)

37.

Choose the best suited discourse marker for the given sentence.

Mark heard the news on the radio he was driving home. (while)

38.

Who published a paper with the title ‘Discourse analysis’? (Zellig Harris)

39.

40.

According to H. Pal Grice (1975), the purpose of cooperative principle is to get

communication as informative as clearly. (effective)

41.

Internal grammatical structure of words and phrases as well as the word are known

as language . (forms)

42.

Language learning refers to the learning of a language in the classroom.

(informal)

43.

The study of language and political economy emerged during the from

parallel currents in several fields. (1980s)

44.

Speech community is a term in used to describe a group of people

who share the same language. (discourse analysis)