MCQ Bank
Context within the discourse, that is, the relationship between the words, phrases, sentences and even paragraphs known as context.
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Who classified conjunction into elaboration, extension, and enhancement?
- A) Joseph Wright
- B) Werner Winter
- C) Frank Palmer
- D) Michael Halliday
A formal way of thinking that uses language is known as.
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Brown and Yule (1983) see the nature of reference in text and in discourse as an action on the part of a/an _____________.
- A) speaker/ writer
- B) audience/ public
- C) caller/ dialer
- D) listener/ reader
According to Martin (1993), British discourse analysis was greatly influenced by Halliday’s to language.
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Apposition and clarification are two types of___________.
- A) elaboration
- B) variation
- C) enchantment
- D) extension
Teaching exchanges in speech language can be further divided into subcategories.
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English is often called a/an _________ language.
- A) VOS
- B) SOV
- C) OVS
- D) SVO
According to Willis Towers Watson, a group of people used in their writing.
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Syllables which stand out in the flow of talk will be referred to as _________ syllables.
- A) lower
- B) upper
- C) hidden
- D) prominent
Anecdotes are valuable literary devices because of their diversity in style, tone, and.
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The most exciting developments in the analysis of discourse have been in _________ studies.
- A) dialect
- B) intonation
- C) stress
- D) grammar
‘essay’ and ‘notice’ are part of.
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Psychological correlates of a natural language is the notion of communicative competence as introduced by _________.
- A) Ronald Carter
- B) Naom Chomsky
- C) Dell Hymes
- D) John McCarthy
Zellig Harris was interested in the distribution of in extended texts.
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Which conjunction includes replacive, subtractive and alternative types?
- A) Variation
- B) Adversative
- C) Extension
- D) Additive
A hyphen indicates an abrupt cut-off or of the sound in progress.
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A faster speaker will generally use __________ intonation units.
- A) more
- B) fewer
- C) longer
- D) casual
Rhetoric is the, practice and study of human communication.
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Prosodic stress is also called__________.
- A) word level
- B) sentence level
- C) upper stress
- D) lower stress