ENG524 Midterm Past Papers Spring 2025

ENG524

Mid-Term

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Maha Malik

Spring 2025

1. The term ("tops") can be defined as an optimistically assume ultimately truth will prevail.
2. A key insight of CMT is that (conceptual metaphor) have their origins in our embodied experiences,
3. If u say something that represents a threat to another's person's self image (face- threatening act)
4. Maxims of quantity (Being brief)
5. Hammond and Macken Horarick (1999) argue that genre-based teaching students gain access to texts and discourses which will, hopefully, help them participate in second language (spoken and written) interactions
6. An understanding and critical (appraisal) of relevant literature
7. CARS stand Creating Search space
8. Parody (mocking questioning of presupposed knowledge which Macgilchrist considers a form of logical inversion with a limited scope for uptake)
9. CDS stand for Corpus assisted discourse
10. To understand the uniqueness of historical moments, we need to situate them in larger landscapes of time and space.
11. Inter-textual analysis links the text and discourse practice dimensions of the framework
12. it referring to language use as discourse, Fairclough has investigated it in a social theoretically informed way, as a form of social practice.
13. Fairclough considers ‘language’ and ‘order of discourse’ as two centripetal forces in any discursive event.
14. The term Discourse Analysis was first introduced by Zelling Harris.
15. Cook (2008) states: Advertising is one of the most prominent, powerful, and ubiquitous contemporary uses of language.
16. Collocation concerns the specific co-text of a word and the way the combination of words in a phrase can carry significant changes in meaning.
17. Who introduced the Discourse Historical Approach? (Wodak)
18. The investigation must be ____ (interdisciplinary)
19. The prototype theory was proposed by __ (Rosch’s (1978))
20. presuppositions of "I used to smoke" is ____ (sentence level)
21. Metaphor is seen as __ process that involves conceptualize one thing in term of another (cognitive)
22. Set of other words used in the same phrase or sentence is called___ (Co-text)
23. MCDA_____ (Multi-modal CDA)
24. The DHA is oriented this implies that the study of (problem)
25. In order to analyze understand and explain the complexity of the . (object)
26. Discourse Historical approach is problem oriented.
27. The process by which ends are related to means, intentions to capabilities is called strategy
28. Assumptions of discourse analysis are 4
29. Discourse analysis was introduced by Zelling Hariis.
30. Stibbe argue that the term critical in critical discourse analysis does not imply being negative
31. The Pragmatic meta level is about procedural knowledge of how to make scene of discourse and the world.
32. Discourse undergoes historical change relating to social change
33. The process by which text and context come together in the creation of meaning is referred to as . Contextualization.
34. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence, is Grice’s maxim of quality.
35. .An act that represents a threat to another person’s self-image is called a/an act. Face-threatening
36. The kind of analysis made for speeches and other political genres, genre analysis
37. Second meta function in SFL is interpersonal
38. Context is a key notion of Critical Discourse Studies
39. Images have been given special attention

Q. CDA

•  CDA stand for Critical discourse analysis
•  It was introduced in 1980
•  Discourse analysis was interested by Zelling Hariis .

Q. The 2nd stage of Fairclough's 3D modal

a. First stage: description b. Second stage: interpretation c. Third stage: explanation

Q. DHA

•  DHA stand for Discourse-Historical Approach
•  it follow 8 stage program.
•  DHA is 3 dimensional