MCQ Bank
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
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