MCQ Bank
Except _________ all are component of stance making.
- A) stance object
- B) epistemic knowledge
- C) stance taker
- D) resources
Initially ___________ was the neglected aspect in the classic notion of CDA.
- A) reality representation
- B) political issues
- C) gender representation
- D) social structures
The social welfare state emerged in ____________ era in Western Europe, Canada, Australia, the UK and the United States.
- A) Cold War
- B) World War I
- C) Mexican Revolution
- D) World War II
Political activity could not exist without _______ in political discourse.
- A) language
- B) intelligence
- C) gestures
- D) behavior
Subjective feelings such as happiness and anger are termed as ________ in stance referring.
- A) realistic
- B) sensitive
- C) sympathetic
- D) affective
It is important to “recognize that ‘terrorism’ is simply a word, a subjective epithet, not a/an _______ reality” (Whitbeck 2004).
- A) objective
- B) intuitive
- C) emotional
- D) hybrid
Nations and national identities are based on ____________ as systems of cultural representation.
- A) religious believes
- B) economy
- C) politics
- D) historical narratives
The discursive construction of terrorism is often a powerful tool of propaganda used to achieve __________ goals.
- A) socio-political
- B) national
- C) personal
- D) economical
An example of _________ is brown, white, or black skin (all from various parts of the world).
- A) ethnicity
- B) gender
- C) race
- D) creed
Integration discourse as both _________ and producer of controlling institutional frameworks.
- A) agent
- B) medium
- C) consumer
- D) product
In pretext for war, retributive justice and _________ did not prove legitimate enough reasons to take any kind of definitive action.
- A) liberty
- B) revenge
- C) amnesty
- D) fraud
The use of flags in everyday contexts refers to ____________ concept of nationalism.
- A) Wodak’s
- B) Bourdieu’s
- C) Billig’s
- D) Anderson’s
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) dealing ___________ approach makes it unique.
- A) contextual
- B) multi-disciplinary
- C) ideological
- D) multimodal
Border politics is defined by _________ language and it is part of national identity politics.
- A) national
- B) non-native
- C) foreign
- D) international
Perhaps a single methodological approach may not be __________ to analyze historical and ideological textured discourses.
- A) lacking
- B) insufficient
- C) sufficient
- D) inadequate
Scholars often refer to everyday contexts as __________, as opposed to the “global,” “macro” level of institutions (van Dijk 2002).
- A) social or micro
- B) political or micro
- C) international or micro
- D) local or micro
The fusion of politics and media over time has led to ___________ transforming politicians into media celebrities.
- A) political socialization
- B) political de-socialization
- C) political violence
- D) political empowerment
The process of __________ involves “ideological construction as well as an apparatus of legal, political and social discrimination and oppression” (MacMaster, 2001).
- A) racialization
- B) socialization
- C) liberalism
- D) ideological construction
Modern nationalism originated in Europe in ________ era.
- A) Cold War
- B) French Revolution
- C) World War I
- D) World War II
The ________ draws on social theory and contextual knowledge to point out the “manipulative character” of some discursive practices.
- A) prospective critique
- B) discourse-immanent critique
- C) ideological critique
- D) socio-diagnostic critique