MCQ Bank
A hyphen indicates an abrupt cut-off or of the sound in progress.
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Henry bought himself a new Jaguar. He practically lives in the car.” Here, the car is a __________ of Jaguar.
- A) hypoordinate
- B) subordinate
- C) superordinate
- D) inordinate
Discourse markers are used. (delaying tactic, all of the given option, the initiate discourse, to mark a boundary)
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Generally, intonation units include ________ pitch word(s).
- A) four
- B) two
- C) one
- D) three
Boundary exchanges contain two moves which are.
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Who proposed that the logical treatment of modalities is too narrow, because it is centered on truth values of propositions.
- A) Winter and Törrönen
- B) Sulkunen and Törrönen
- C) Sulkunen and Winter
- D) Törrönen and McCarthy
Stories are warning others about the dangers or negative consequences surrounding the topic at hand.
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The term ________ has generated substantial controversy in the field of general and applied linguistics.
- A) accent
- B) competence
- C) alphabet
- D) dialect
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