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WorksheetsPragmatics & Discourse
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of these is NOT a feature of pragmatics?
cultural references
use of humour and irony
assumptions about audiences
implication and inference
cohesion
The Co-operative Principle is also known as...
Paul's Rules
Grice's Maxims
turn-taking
topic shifting
Sometimes, what we DON'T say is more important that what we DO say. This is known as...
implying by omission
intertextuality
synthetic personalisation
irony
What is irony?
rain on your wedding day
a free ride when you've already paid
the good advice that you just didn't take
saying the opposite of what you really mean
What is meant by the idea of a 'narrator' in language?
a fictional 'teller'; the apparent voice behind the text, created by the writer
a fictional 'receiver'; the person that the text appears to be aimed at
the real person who created the text
the real reader or listener
Who coined the phrase 'synthetic personalisation'?
Drew & Heritage
Cameron
Grice
Fairclough
What is prosody?
computer-mediated communication
use of bold or italics
stress, intonation and emphasis in spoken language
use of emoticons
What does 'discourse' refer to in the study of language?
the vocabulary of a text
the structure, organisation and layout of a text
the meaning behind the vocabulary of a text
the mode of a text
The use of explicit linguistic devices to signal relations between sentences and parts of texts is known as...
anaphora
cataphora
ellipsis
cohesion
Which of the following is NOT a technique used for cohesion?
pronouns
adjectives
determiners
conjunctions
Which of the following is NOT an example of a typical discourse structure?
narratee
list
narrative
question-answer
How might synonyms be a useful feature in discourse?
they can help to avoid repetition
they refer back to an earlier point
they omit words
they help to orientate the reader
An anaphoric reference...
helps the text make sense
links forward to another part of the text
refers back to another part of the text
give us information about time and place
Which of the following is NOT a discourse feature we would expect to see in spontaneous conversations?
emoticons
openings and closings
topic loops
topic shifts
Fill the blank: __________ of time and place establish connections between one part of a text and another, and are frequent in narrative.
pronouns
determiners
adverbials
synonyms
Fill the blank: If there were no ________ you would have to keep repeating the noun or proper noun, and this would make sentences very long-winded.
pronouns
articles
determiners
conjunctions
Fill the blank: ____________ is where words are omitted because the context makes it clear what is meant.
adverbials
anaphora
cataphora
ellipsis
LEXIS REVISION: which word class do 'under', 'behind' and 'before' belong to?
determiners
conjunctions
prepositions
pronouns
LEXIS REVISION: what sort of adjectives are 'biggest', 'smallest' and 'best'?
stative
dynamic
comparatives
superlatives
LEXIS REVISION: When making a noun into a plural, should you use an apostrophe?
Always
Never
Only with initialisms, e.g. DVD's
Only when talking about decades, e.g. the 1980's
