Discourse Analysis

Which of the following statements about insertion sequence is correct?

• a) Insertion sequence yalnızca başlangıçta kullanılan kelimelere dayanır.

• b) The answer to the first part is linked directly to the second part.

• c) The first part is followed by another question or explanation, followed by the second part.

• d) The second part comes last in the speech.
  

Which of the following is NOT one of Grice’s maxims?

• a) Quantity

• b) Quality

• c) Clarity

• d) Relation

What is the “Language beyond the sentence”?

• a)cohesion

• b)hedges

• coherence

• discourse

They try to arrive at an interpretation that is in line with their experience of the way the world is.

• a) cohesion

• b) coherence

• c) filled pauses

• d) turns

Interpreting a sentence based on traditions and culture is called?

• a) Cohesion

• b) Background knowledge

• c) Coherence

• d) Conversation Analysis

What are hesitation markers used during turn-taking?

• a) Words used to interrupt another speaker

• b) Phrases used to end the speech completely

• c) Pause sounds (such as er, um, uh) to show that the speaker is waiting for the floor

• d) Methods used to speed up speech

Which example is about ‘cohesive ties’?

• a)Time:past(bought)/past(did)/present(think)

• b)tenses:once/nowadays/sometimes

• c)Money:bought/saving every penny/sold

• e) that’s the telephone

A: Hi, how are you?
B: "I’m good, how about you?"
A: "I’m fine, thanks!"

In this case, which feature stands out?

• a) Adjacency pairs

• b) Pauses and filled pauses

• c) Insertion sequences

• d) Turn-taking

What does the term implicature refer to?

• a) What the speaker explicitly states

• b) What the speaker hints or does not say but is understood

• c) The direct answer given in the conversation

• d) Information unrelated to the question asked

What is the purpose of analysing a speech with discourse analysis?

• a) Finding grammatical errors in speech

• b) To evaluate the fluency of the speech

• c) Understanding how speech creates meaning in social and cultural contexts

• d) Making the speech shorter