Discourse Analysis

What is discourse analysis primarily concerned with?

• The study of language beyond the sentence

• The study of language sounds

• The study of grammar rules

• The study of phonetics

Answer explanation

How we understand speakers who say more than they say,

Like we can see "Train collides, two die" and can understand collision of train caused two people's death

Which of the following best describes an "implicature" in Interpreting discourse?

• A direct statement explicitly stated by the speaker
• The implied meaning that listeners infer based on context.

• A non-verbal cue used to convey meaning
• A grammatical error in speech

Answer explanation

My Town

My natal was in a small town, very close to Riyadh capital of Saudi Arabia. The distant between my town and Riyadh 7 miles exactly. The name of this Almasani that means in English Factories. It takes this name from the peopl’s carrer. In my childhood I remmeber the people live. It was very simple. Most the people was farmer.

We can see this text and understand it even though it is written with broken english because we make interpretation

Which term best describes the listener’s process of filling in gaps to make sense of what is heard or read?

• Inference
• Interpretation
• Assumption
• Conjecture

Read the following passage and identify the number of cohesive ties present.

My father once bought a Lincoln convertible. He did it by saving every penny he could. That car would be worth a fortune nowadays. However, he sold it to help pay for my college education. Sometimes I think I’d rather have the convertible.

• 7
• 10
• 11

• 3

Answer explanation

• "My father" (initial mention) - Introduces the main subject.

• "He" (refers back to "my father") - Links the second sentence to the first.

• "It" (refers back to "a Lincoln convertible") - Links the second sentence to the first.

• "Every penny he could" (provides detail on how he did it) - This phrase connects the effort made by "my father" to buy the car.

• "That car" (refers back to "a Lincoln convertible") - Connects the third sentence to the first.

• "However" (contrasts the worth of the car with the action taken) - Connects ideas between sentences.

• "He" (refers back to "my father") - Links the fourth sentence to the first.

• "It" (refers back to "a Lincoln convertible") - Links the fourth sentence to the first.

• "My college education" (introduces the purpose for selling the car) - Connects to the speaker's situation.

• "Sometimes I think" (introduces a personal reflection) - Connects the speaker's thoughts to the preceding information.

• "The convertible" (refers back to "a Lincoln convertible") - Links the final sentence back to the first.

Even though there is a lot of cohesive ties this text is meaningless so what is eksik at here ?

My father bought a Lincoln convertible. The car driven by the police was red. That color doesn’t suit her. She consists of three letters. However, a letter isn’t as fast as a telephone call.

• Coherence

• Speech events

• Hedges

• Schemas and scripts

Answer explanation

The key to the concept of coherence (“everything fitting together well”) is not something that exists in words or structures, but something that exists in people. It is people who “make sense” of what they read and hear. They try to arrive at an interpretation that is in line with their experience of the way the world is.

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What does the term "coherence" refer to in discourse analysis?

• The use of complex vocabulary in a text or conversation.
• The repetition of key terms

• The use of correct punctuation

• The logical connections made by the reader or listener

What is the role of [ at here ?

• indicate a place where overlapping speech occurs.

• indicate a place where simultaneous speech occurs.

• indicate a place where other speech starts.

• indicate a place where simultaneous or overlapping speech occurs.

Which one won't indicate a completetion point in turn taking

• asking a question

• pausing at the end of a completed syntactic structure

• start to make short sounds, usually repeated

• body shifts or facial expressions

• pausing eye contact

What is a "filled pause"?

• A 'filled pause' is a type of punctuation used in writing to indicate a pause in speech.
• A pause used to signal the end of a conversation

• A pause at the end of a sentence

• A pause filled with a word like "um" or "uh"

What does the Quantity maxim require?

• Be relevant

• Be clear, brief, and orderly

• Make your contribution as informative as is required, but not more or less than is required

• Do not say that which you believe to be false or for which you lack adequate evidence.