MCQ Bank
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
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