ENG524 Midterm Quiz

ENG524

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1. Collective narrative is a narrative that forms part of a group’s (identity)
2. How many assumptions of discourse analysis are there? (four)
3. It aims to depict the social object as just, rational and worthy of support. This strategy of Normalization is called . (justification)
4. The term “critical discourse analysis” was introduced in the . (1980s)
5. Critical Discourse Studies (CDs) developed historically out of an approach to language study developed of the University of East Anglia (Critical Linguistics)
6. The most important thing that makes a text has to make sense is . (meaning)
7. According to Fairclough, the category of should be kept in mind while doing discourse analysis. (power, social class, ideology, all of the given options)
8. The Discourse Historical Approach is oriented. (problem)
9. The process by which ends are related to means, intentions to capabilities, and objective to resources is called . (strategy)
10. Discourse undergoes historical change relating to change (social)
11. The process by which text and context come together in the creation of meaning is referred to as . (contextualization)
12. The key notion of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is (context)
13. CNA stands for . (Critical Narrative Analysis)
14. The acronym “DHA” stands for (Discourse-Historical Approach)
15. Conversation views as constructed moment by moment through conversational moves (context)
16. One of the main tenets of CDA is that relations are discursive. (power)
17. MMDA stands for . (Multi-Modal Discourse Analysis)
18. How many assumptions of discourse analysis are there? (four)
19. The term discourse analysis was first introduced by . (Zelling Harris)
20. Which one of the following is not the discursive strategy of DHA? (Abstraction, perspectivization, predication, nomination)
21. The presupposition that merely presuppose the existence of something is called presupposition (Existential)
22. Positioning of information in the text, and how the text fits with the overall knowledge in the related epistemic/discourse community is dealt with level. (discourse)
23. The is about procedural knowledge of how to ‘make sense’ of discourse and the world. (pragmatic meta-level)
24. The concept of ‘communicative competence’ was proposed by (Dell Hymes)
25. CDA could include the documentation of: (minority discourses, diasporic voices, emergent discourses, all of the given)
26. The implicature derived from a particular context, rather than from the use of the words alone is termed as implicature. (particularized)
27. Stibbe (2014) argued that the term ‘critical discourse analysis’ does not imply being (negative)
28. The acronym CADs stand for (Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies).
29. The acronym ‘PCDA’ stands for: . (Public Consultative Discourse Analysis)
30. An utterance that a speaker makes to achieve an intended effect (illocutionary act)
31. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence, is Grice’s maxim of . (quality)
32. According to Piller (2012), cultures’ vary in: (time, scale, space, all of the given)
33. The study of meaning in relation to the context in which a person is speaking or writing is called: . (pragmatics)
34. An act that represents a threat to another person’s self-image is called a/an act. (face-threatening)
35. According to Malinowski and Firth, the context consist of: (mode, tenor, field, all of the given)