MCQ Bank
A general corpus is also called __________.
- A) critical corpus
- B) reference corpus
- C) essential corpus
- D) selective corpus
What does EAP stand for?
- A) English of Australian Precedence
- B) English for Academic Purposes
- C) English from Asian Perception
- D) English of American Precedence
Systematic qualitative analysis in the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) takes _______ layers of context.
- A) two
- B) four
- C) seven
- D) six
According to Michael Stubbs, any corpus in the end is a compromise between what is desirable and what is _________.
- A) factual
- B) feasible
- C) real
- D) actual
When did English for Academic Purposes (EAP) emerge in the academic discipline?
- A) 1960s
- B) 1970s
- C) 1990s
- D) 1980s
Ethnomethodology is technically rooted in __________.
- A) etymology
- B) sociology
- C) psychology
- D) terminology
Genre analysis sees texts as representative of wider ________ practices.
- A) rhetorical
- B) historical
- C) institutional
- D) etymological
Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) distinguishes between three dimensions that are _________.
- A) topics that are spoken
- B) all of the given options
- C) textual meanings
- D) discursive strategies
Jessop (2013) has outlined ___________ approaches examining neoliberalism.
- A) five
- B) three
- C) two
- D) four
Construction of identity of any political party can be done simply by __________ in political discourse.
- A) names
- B) speeches
- C) campaigns
- D) slogans
Collective narrative is a narrative that forms part of a group’s.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
According to one of the approaches of political discourse, speeches need to be__________ to generate more influence on audience.
- A) hesitated
- B) emotionless
- C) neutral
- D) sentimental
How many assumptions of discourse analysis are there?
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
‘Like’ refers to ___________ in the sentence “I like winters”.
- A) stance subject
- B) stance object
- C) stance reflection
- D) stance position
It aims to depict the social object as just, rational and worthy of support. This strategy of Normalization is called.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Stance in the theories of discourse analysis is __________.
- A) maxim
- B) criticism
- C) ideology
- D) act
The term “critical discourse analysis” was introduced in the.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Domination is represented through _________ according to Gramsci’s notion of hegemony.
- A) private organizations
- B) protests
- C) political speeches
- D) violent revolution
Critical Discourse Studies (CDs) developed historically out of an approach to language study developed of the University of East Anglia.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
For a politician, _________ the important element.
- A) manifesto
- B) ideology
- C) identity of politician
- D) public