Discourse analysis

Theme is the point of departure of a clause, what the clause is about, while _______ refers to the pattern of themes across a stretch of text.

• thematic development
• thematic fronting

• rheme

• theme-rheme

With _______, we are concerned with the semantic links between clauses, how an item - a pronoun, a noun or a conjunction - in one clause may refer backwards or forwards to another clause.

• coherence

• adjacency pairs

• speech acts

• cohesion

With _______, a word or phrase is replaced by another, for example, Which book do you want? I'll take the red one. In this example the word book is replaced by one.

• substitution
• reference

• ellipsis

• conjunction

_______ is the way in which words are used regularly together.

• reference

• collocation

• general words

• cohesion

The remainder of the clause, what is not part of the theme, is referred to as the ______.

In this sentence: “...no benefits justify the risk of nuclear weapons...I will explain why nuclear technology has a future on our planet despite its dangers.”

Which type of lexical cohesion can you find?

• Synonymy

• Antonymy

• Hyponymy

In this sentence: “...the risk of harming the environment, or polluting the air”.

What type of lexical cohesion does the underlined parts belong to?

• Synonymy

• Antonymy

• Meronymy

Which of the following phrases is NOT collocation?

• expert people

• nuclear power

• comparatively cheaper

How many types of Ellipsis?

• 2 (nominal ellipsis, verbal ellipsis)

• 3 (nominal ellipsis, verbal ellipsis, clausal ellipsis)

• 3 (nominal ellipsis, verbal ellipsis, adjective ellipsis)

• 2 (verbal ellipsis, clausal ellipsis)

“You should see the doctor.” This expression is categorized into ...

• Request

• Suggest

• Tell

• Justify