ENG524 Final Term Solved Papers Spring 2025

ENG524

ABSTRACT This comprehensive collection of notes is accurately crafted to empower students to excel academically, ensuring they achieve a minimum of 80% marks in their examinations. The content is organized with clarity and precision, focusing on key concepts, critical analyses, and practical applications tailored to the syllabus. These notes serve as a reliable resource for both thorough preparation and last-minute revision. Designed to inspire confidence and mastery, this guide is an essential tool for students striving for academic excellence.

Maha Malik Spring2025

1. In construction of any identity names play crucial role
2. Third side of triangle represents allignment between two subjects
3. strong link between CDS and social theory in necessity
4. Responsibility of the attack is transferred to victims
5. How certain linguistic features have been used to take people in confidence
6. social media is fluid, changeable and non static
7. Reality TV is ‘the most exorbitantly noticed form of programming in television
8. choice of shops, buying brands or not, ecological/organic consumption, etc. Behavior
9. shallow environmentalism’ The books do address environmental topics to raise awareness of ecological destruction, they do not reflect on the underlying economic, cultural and political issues, nor do they encourage students to actively participate in transformative ecological practice.

Character Types (Short/Three Types)

1. Protagonist – central character.
2. Antagonist – opposes the protagonist.
3. Supporting characters – help develop the main plot.

Kinds of Stance (Only Names) · 1. Affective stance · 2. Epistemic stance · 3. Stylistic stance · Three Components of Stance · 1. Subjectivity · 2. Positioning · 3. Evaluation · Racism

Covert Racism: Subtle, indirect discrimination. Overt Racism: Explicit and openly expressed. Elite Racism: Found in institutional policies or influential discourses. Everyday Racism: Found in routine language, actions, and interactions.

Allegment vs Alignment

Allegment: Aligning one's discourse with others to construct a collective viewpoint. Alignment: Showing agreement, support, or shared stance in discourse.

Definition of CDA

CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context .

True/False from CDA

(Not all specified, but examples from handout):

CDA is purely linguistic. → False CDA aims at social change. → True

Principles of CDA

1. Discourse is socially constitutive and socially conditioned.
2. Discourse does ideological work.
3. Discourse is historical.
4. The link between text and society is mediated.
5. CDA is interpretative and explanatory.

New Directions for CDA

Focus on multi-modal texts, digital media, and social media discourses. Increasing use of corpus-assisted and interdisciplinary approaches.