MCQ Bank
In speech events, there is enormous in what people say in different circumstances.
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Interaction that takes place through a broadcast platform, whether spoken or written is called _________discourse.
- A) power
- B) media
- C) domination
- D) ideology
Choose the best suited discourse marker for the given sentence. Mark heard the news on the radio he was driving home.
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A part of something can only truly be understood if examined within relation to the whole of it is called _______.
- A) universalism
- B) cultural
- C) holism
- D) relativism
Who published a paper with the title ‘Discourse analysis’?
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Blogs and webpages are also other examples of_________.
- A) semiotics
- B) none of the given options
- C) trans-media
- D) semantics
According to Martin (1993), British discourse analysis was greatly influenced by Halliday’s to language.
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Discourse _________ approach is the primary focus of scholars in the study of media discourse.
- A) synthetical
- B) sociolinguistic
- C) non-linguistic
- D) analytic
In discourse analysis, what the writer intends to convey messages through the text that contains ungrammatical form is known as. (interpreting discourse, social boundaries, speech events, cohesive bonds)
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The media texts may throw up discourses and are called _________.
- A) media literacy
- B) binary oppositions
- C) none of the given options
- D) violations
Choose the best suited discourse marker for the given sentence. Ali apologized several times Ahmad wouldn’t speak to her.
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A set of techniques for making connections between texts and their meanings is known as ________.
- A) analytical analysis
- B) conversation analysis
- C) none of the given options
- D) discourse analysis
Humorous is a/an that adds humor to the topic at hand.
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Discursive psychology is a/an _______ that addresses psychological matters in terms of how they figure in discourse in conversations.
- A) technique
- B) method
- C) approach
- D) term
According to Sinclair and Coulthard, there are classes of exchange.
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Which of these is not a type of linguistics?
- A) Personal
- B) Comparative
- C) Synchronic
- D) Historical
Interview, commentaries and talk documentaries are part of.
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A conversation is an activity in which one person listens while the other person speaks is called __________.
- A) maxim of quantity
- B) maxim of manner
- C) turn-taking
- D) maxim of quality
Who among the folloing outlines a "theory of discourse schemata"?
- A) David Mitchell’s
- B) S. E. Hintson’s
- C) van Dijk
- D) Norman Fairclough
The study of how linguistics varies from one place to the next and one speaker to the next is called________.
- A) sociolinguistics
- B) linguistic typology
- C) comparative linguistics
- D) ethno-linguistics