ENG524 Midterm Quizzes

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. The presupposition that merely presuppose the existence of something is

called presupposition (Existential) 21. Position 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)

22. The is about procedural knowledge of how to ‘make sense’ of

discourse and the world. (pragmatic meta-level)

23. The concept of ‘communicative competence’ was proposed by

(Dell Hymes)

24. CDA could include the documentation of: (minority discourses, diasporic

voices, emergent discourses, all of the given)

25. The implicature derived from a particular context, rather than from the use of

the words alone is termed as implicature. (particularized)

26. Stibbe (2014) argued that the term ‘critical discourse analysis’ does not imply

being (negative)

27. The acronym CADs stand for (Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies).

28. An utterance that a speaker makes to achieve an intended effect

(perlocutionary act)

29. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence, is Grice’s maxim of

. (quality)

30. One of the assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis is that language is

always ‘ .’ (in the world)

31. The study of the social functions of different kinds of texts is called

analysis. (genre)

32. Van Dijk concentrates on as the meaning part between text and

society. (social cognition)

33. Discourse Historical Approach has a focus on the historical dimension of

discourse formation and politics. (identity)

34. Teamwork is one of the significant features of approach.

(Discourse Historical)

35. DHA does not just look at the historical dimensions of discourse but also at

in the discourse. (discrimination)

36. One of discursive strategies in DHA is . it focuses on the

discursive construction. (nomination)

37. The term critical discourse analysis was introduced in 1980s to mark

difference with an allegedly discourse analysis. (descriptive) 38. Discourse is a socially constituted as well as practice. (constitutive

semiotic)

39. One of the key notions of Critical Discourse studies is as it is

one of the defining moments of CDs. (context)

40. The four validity claims distinguished by Habermas are truth, ,

normative rightness and comprehensibility. (truthfulness)

41. Fairclough’s 3D model consists of three stages: description, and

explanation. (interpretation)

42. Fairclough mentions government talk and political policies in the

domain of discourse. (macro)

43. Textual analysis in social researches comprises two different forms of

analysis: linguistic analysis and analysis. (intertextual)

44. Blommaert (2005: 251) defines as “the totality of conditions

under which discourse s being produced, circulated and interpreted” (context)

45. Genre is a type of event, e.g. story, joke, lecture, etc. (speech)

46. Corpus linguistics has been criticized for data and for limiting

the analysis to a bottom-up type of investigation. (decontextualizing)

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opinions and commitments to their own and other people’s work are named as

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