Untitled Lesson 1

The functions of language

Discourse analysis

• Overview

• Linguistic element

Multiple Choice

Most language is not wholly transactional or interactional but a mix of both

• TRUE

• FALSE

Categorize

Options (5)

less formal

less precise

more communicative

more articulate

more sophisticated

Organize these options into the right categories

Spoken language

written language

Multiple Select

the analysis of ______ _________ is known as discourse analysis

• written language

• spoken language

• text

• sign

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What is spoken discourse analysis?

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What is written discourse analysis?

Discourse cohesion
a linking within a text that holds a text together and gives it meaning is cohesion

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What is "Exophoric" & "Endophoric" reference

Multiple Choice

Which reference are classified into two classes?

• Exophoric reference

• Endophoric reference

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Write some examples of demonstrative reference:

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Write some examples of comparative reference:

Multiple Select

We can think of Ellipsis as

• ommission

• zero substitution

• reference

• conjunction

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Temporal conjunction (which means "time order") are:

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Adversial conjunction (which shows the contrary) are

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Causual (which shows the cause and consequence) are

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What is COLLOCATION?

Multiple Choice

In this sentence, which type of reference does “we” belong to?

“In the medical field we can say by nuclear ray sometimes we can treat a cancer patient.”

• Homophoric reference

• Exophoric reference

• Anaphoric reference

Multiple Choice

It consists of reference, ellipsis, substitution, and conjunction.

• Lexical cohesion

• Grammatical cohesion

Multiple Choice

There are six types of it: Repetition, Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy, Meronymy and Collocation

• Lexical cohesion

• Grammatical cohesion

Multiple Choice

It can be defined as the set of resources for constructing relations in discourse which transcend the grammatical structure.

• Cohesion

• Coherence

• Theme

• Rheme

Multiple Choice

It is the second part of the clause in which Theme is developed, and usually contains unfamiliar information, or new knowledge that a writer assumes his/her readers do not know.

• Theme

• Rheme

Multiple Choice

It is the element that serves as the point of departure of the message and locates and orients the clause within its context

• Theme

• Rheme

Multiple Choice

It is a group of two or more words that are almost always put together to create a specific meaning.

• Cohesion

• Collocation

Multiple Choice

It refers to words that are repeated in the text, as well as words that have changed to reflect tense or number.

• Repetition

• Cohesion

• Collocation

Multiple Choice

Cohesion focuses more on the lexical and grammar in sentence formation.

• True

• False

• Somehow true

• Somehow false

Multiple Choice

Since, next, however, therefore, similarly are all examples of

• Antecedents

• Pronouns

• Synonyms

• Transitional words

Multiple Choice

They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. The underlined word is a ... .

• conjunction

• substitution

Multiple Choice

Lexical words

• are simply nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs

• are measures of how much information there is in a particular piece of language

• give little or no information about what a text is about

• tend to have a higher lexical density than spoken texts which tend to have more grammatical items than content

• e kind of complexity that is typical of written language

Multiple Select

Grammatical cohesion includes 4 devices such as

• reference

• substitution

• ellipsis

• conjunction

• reiteration

Multiple Select

Cohesion

• is the semantic relation between one element and another in a text

• realized through grammar and vocabulary

• can be divided into grammatical and lexical cohesion

• includes 4 devices such as (1)reference, (2)substitution, (3)ellipsis (tĩnh lược), and (4)conjunction

• is divided into (1)reiteration and (2)collocation

Multiple Select

Lexical cohesion is divided into

• reiteration

• collocation

• reference

• substitution

• ellipsis

Multiple Choice

In the following sentence,  “Actually” is the interpersonal theme and “ the concert” is topical theme:  Actually, the concert was beyond my expectation

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

    Interpersonal themes reveal both the information and the attitude of the speaker.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Clausal Ellipsis is a cohesive device used in: (1) The symphony was written in 1812. (2) It is considered to be one of the finest in the repertoire of nineteenth century symphonic compositions

• true

• false

Match

Match the following

• interpersonal

• topical

• rheme

• textual

• Jack gets good mark

express attitude of the speaker/reader

express the topic

like the clause to the rest

In addition

topical theme

• express attitude of the speaker/reader

• express the topic

• like the clause to the rest

• In addition

• topical theme

proposition

• the meaning of the utterance (nghĩa cốt lõi của phát ngôn)

• a proposition is a single statement about some entity or event

• a sentence may contain a single/several propositions

proposition rules

​ - there are 37 proposition rules

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#1 - S + V(intransitive)

She was sleeping

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#2 - S + V(monotransitive)

Mary reads a book

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#3 - S + V(ditransitive)

Kathy bought a book for him.

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#4 - S + O + OC (ditransitive)

We call him a fool.

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#5 - S+ V+ To V

Jack decided to make a plan

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#6 - S + V + VING

John enjoys reading.

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#7 - S + V + V-ING + (O)

John enjoys reading books

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#8 - S + V + Prep V-ing

we came from jogging

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#9 - S + V + Prep Phrase

we came from Hue

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#10 - S + V + NOT

He didn't come