MCQ Bank
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
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
‘Like’ refers to ___________ in the sentence “I like winters”.
- A) stance subject
- B) stance object
- C) stance reflection
- D) stance position
Stance in the theories of discourse analysis is __________.
- A) maxim
- B) criticism
- C) ideology
- D) act
Domination is represented through _________ according to Gramsci’s notion of hegemony.
- A) private organizations
- B) protests
- C) political speeches
- D) violent revolution
For a politician, _________ the important element.
- A) manifesto
- B) ideology
- C) identity of politician
- D) public
The concept of ‘order of discourse’ is provided by ________ in CDA.
- A) Fairclough
- B) Graham
- C) Wodak
- D) Foucault
Ferguson (2010) provocatively points out “neoliberalism is _________ for poor and working people”.
- A) favorable
- B) good
- C) necessary
- D) bad
In Neoliberalism, the term deregulation suggests the business operations more _________ with less regulations.
- A) difficult
- B) complicated
- C) reluctant
- D) smoother
Deontic modality refers to ___________ in analysis of political stance.
- A) emphasizing speaker’s authority
- B) public view
- C) audience representation
- D) social issues
Epistemic modality refers to ___________ in analysis of political stance.
- A) imaginations
- B) suppositions
- C) commitment to the truth
- D) illustrations
The three nodes represent __________ in stance triangle.
- A) subject 2
- B) all
- C) subject 1
- D) object
‘Language helps us in presenting a given view of reality’ is point view of ________ linguist.
- A) Fairclough
- B) Grice
- C) Wodak
- D) Chilton
Except _________ all are the key components of the stance triangle.
- A) positioning
- B) evaluation
- C) alignment
- D) objectivity
The link __________ between CDS and social theory.
- A) weak
- B) unclear
- C) insignificant
- D) inevitable
Except ________ neoliberalism deals all.
- A) individualization
- B) deregulation
- C) paid market
- D) privatization
There has been _______ research on the ways in which the general public has produced knowledge of the economy through intellectual engagement in the media with economists.
- A) plenty
- B) unlimited
- C) significant
- D) limited
The phenomenon of ‘political theory’ is related to_________ in society.
- A) religious tolerance
- B) public concerns
- C) harmony
- D) government interests
The lexical level operates at _________in political discourse.
- A) words and phrases
- B) summaries
- C) paragraphs
- D) sentences