ENG524 Midterm Quiz from Assessments

ENG524

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1. One of the assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis is that language is always ‘ .’ (in the world)
2. The study of the social functions of different kinds of texts is called analysis. (genre)
3. Van Dijk concentrates on as the meaning part between text and society. (social cognition)
4. Discourse Historical Approach has a focus on the historical dimension of discourse formation and politics. (identity)
5. Teamwork is one of the significant features of approach. (Discourse Historical)
6. DHA does not just look at the historical dimensions of discourse but also at in the discourse. (discrimination)
7. One of discursive strategies in DHA is . it focuses on the discursive construction. (nomination)
8. The term critical discourse analysis was introduced in 1980s to mark difference with an allegedly discourse analysis. (descriptive)
9. Discourse is a socially constituted as well as practice. (constitutive semiotic)
10. One of the key notions of Critical Discourse studies is as it is one of the defining moments of CDs. (context)
11. The four validity claims distinguished by Habermas are truth, , normative rightness and comprehensibility. (truthfulness)
12. Fairclough’s 3D model consists of three stages: description, and explanation. (interpretation)
13. Fairclough mentions government talk and political policies in the domain of discourse. (macro)
14. Textual analysis in social researches comprises two different forms of analysis: linguistic analysis and analysis. (intertextual)
15. Blommaert (2005: 251) defines as “the totality of conditions under which discourse s being produced, circulated and interpreted” (context)
16. Genre is a type of event, e.g. story, joke, lecture, etc. (speech)
17. Corpus linguistics has been criticized for data and for limiting the analysis to a bottom-up type of investigation. (decontextualizing)
18. Martin’s (1984 : 25) defines as ‘a staged, goal-oriented, purposeful
19. Genres are open to change and , but it is not a case of ‘free for all’ or
20. The term was first coined by the linguist Zellig Harris ( 1959 ) to
21. The ways in which writers present themselves and convey their judgements, opinions and commitments to their own and other people’s work are named as in
22. According to Fairclough (1989: 29–37), each social domain has an associated “
23. Two different perspectives, can be offered on the structure of texts: one that
24. The kind of analysis made for speeches and other political genres, such as debates

entirely and leads to reshaping their genres is titled analysis. (genre)

25. Luke ( 1996 ), argues that teaching ‘genres of ’ such as academic essays
26. The modes which are simultaneously used to say something about the world are
27. A strand of multimodality is Analysis, developed mainly through the
28. The Re contextualization of social practice is useful as it draws particular attention to the of activity. (sequences)
29. In CDA, It has been argued that multimodality must avoid the ‘ vision’
30. The rhetorical structure is made up of ‘background’ (the image) and ‘ ’ (the title of the article) which adds extra information to the image. (elaboration)
31. Iedema (2001) provides a framework for the analysis of films and television by drawing on work in film theory and genre theory: The levels of analysis he proposes are frame, shot, scene, sequence (from film theory), and work as a whole. (generic stage)