The ________ research involves work in political science and to some degree in cultural studies.

• A) qualitative
• B) quantitative
• C) non-linguistic
• D) sociolinguistic

Left side brackets “[“ indicate where __________ talk begins.

• A) formal
• B) relevant
• C) overlapping
• D) casual

The term that involves variation and style in the media or a close analysis of language is______________.

• A) discourse analysis
• B) analytic approach
• C) non-linguistic
• D) sociolinguistic

What are the major units of analysis known as in a conversation?

• A) Adjoining pair
• B) Adjacency unit
• C) Adjacency pair
• D) Adjoining unit

A ________ system is an interrelated collection of signs or symbols.

• A) synonym
• B) semiotic
• C) coherence
• D) hyponym

Judgements, truths, or moral values have no absolutes, and can only be understood relative to the situation.

• A) Cultural
• B) Relativism
• C) Universalism
• D) Holism

Discursive psychology starts with a focus on discourse as a central resource for performing _______.

• A) action
• B) technique
• C) method
• D) approach

Who said that language of science is a multimedia “language” or, more precisely, a multimodal semiotic system.

• A) David Lodge
• B) Jay L. Lemke
• C) Ronald Reagan
• D) Richard Nixon

The language of science is a multimedia ________ or, more precisely, a multimodal semiotic system.

• A) coherence
• B) language
• C) rhetoric
• D) semiotics

A representative corpus must enable analysis of the features ________.

• A) across text types
• B) within text
• C) across texts
• D) all of the given options

Genre analysis can be seen as a more specific form of__________.

• A) discourse analysis
• B) conversation analysis
• C) Informal analysis
• D) cultural analysis

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is usually defined as _________ English with the aim of assisting learners.

• A) teaching
• B) prescribing
• C) edifying
• D) sorting

In the past, the main vehicles of academic communication were _________.

• A) photographs
• B) recorded audios
• C) written texts
• D) recorded videos

A _________ corpus is a corpus of texts of a particular type, such as editorials, geography textbooks and academic articles in a particular subject.

• A) internal
• B) external
• C) specialized
• D) general

Who studied the language of personal ads on the World Wide Web?

• A) Suson Hunston
• B) Ken Hyland
• C) Nigel Harwood
• D) Vincent B. Y. Ooi

Discourse analysis is looking at texts in relation to the ________ contexts in which they are used.

• A) substantial
• B) superficial
• C) social
• D) psychological

Corpus studies draw on collections of texts that are usually stored and analyzed ___________.

• A) automatically
• B) manually
• C) electronically
• D) none of the given options

Who believes that small manageable corpora can be put together relatively quickly?

• A) John Sinclair
• B) John McCarthy
• C) Ronald Carter
• D) Ken Hyland

A collection of spoken or written authentic texts that is representative of a particular area of language use is termed as ________.

• A) discourse
• B) corpus
• C) inflection
• D) pidgin

Words that typically occur together are called _________.

• A) collaboration
• B) cooperation
• C) collocation
• D) connotation