Lecture 2 - Metafunctions of language -How to do things w/ words

Social semiotic...

• facilitates communication and construes meaning

• urges people to conform and follow social norms

• has meaning-making property

• relates to the ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions

The concepts of theme, rheme, subject are discussed in...

• Ideational metafunction

• Textual metafunction

• Interpersonal metafunction

• All of the above

The choice of a particular word triggers the choice of another word because of...

• collocation

• domino effect

• textual analysis

• social norm

Information focus changes when we change the order of constituents in a sentence.

• True

• False

Theme...

• is always the subject of the sentence

• is the information focus of a sentence

• appears at the beginning of an English sentence

• always exists as micro contextual knowledge in tenors

Rheme...

• is everything else other than theme in a sentence

• the subject of an English sentence

• an unimportant part of a sentence

• can be replaced by other content in a sentence

Ideational metafunction is also called...

• Experimental metafunction

• Environmental metafunction

• Empirical metafunction

• Experiential metafunction

Ideational metafunction affects our reality and is affected by our reality as well.

• True

• False

Ideational metafunction consists of...

• processes

  (verbs)

• participants

  (nouns)

• behavior

  (verbs)

• circumstances

  (adverbs or prepositional phrases)

Answer explanation

The 4th one is qualities (either adjectives or adverbs)

The most neutral way to represent "people from across the border" is...

• hordes of illegal aliens

• groups of immigrants

• refugees

• asylum seekers

Answer explanation

You'll have to justify for your word choice in your reflective analysis (communication strategies).