WorksheetsCritical Discourse Analysis
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
(a) is defined as language in its contexts of use. In considering language in its contexts of use, the concern is also with language above the level of the sentence.
(a) can be defined as the study of language in its contexts of use.
The idea "One text cannot be understood except in relation to other texts which have gone before (and, indeed, which are likely to follow)" shows that discourse is _______.
intertextual
reproduced
intercontextual
Critical discourse analysis has been used to conduct research in what fields? (Pick all that apply)
politics
health
education
physics
Which researchers have been highly influential in the field of discourse analysis?
Fairclough
Albers
Gee
Kress
The power of discourse is to __________ processes and make them seem self evident.
challenge
describe
critique
naturalize
________ is accomplished by people concertedly as they interact with each other. ____________ is a communicative tool that people use to help mutually construct meaning by identifying units of analysis at multiple levels including social events, institutions, and contexts.
thematic coherence
contextualization clues
boundary making
What are contextualization cues?
a communicative tool that people use to mutually construct meaning by identifying units of analysis at multiple levels including social events, institutions and contexts.
any linguistic feature or form used to index an interpretative frame and context.
the construction of meaning at multiple levels across an event and across events through people acting and reacting to each other.
What is thematic coherence?
a communicative tool that people use to mutually construct meaning by identifying units of analysis at multiple levels including social events, institutions and contexts.
any linguistic feature or form used to index an interpretative frame and context.
the construction of meaning at multiple levels across an event and across events through people acting and reacting to each other.
(a) discourse analysis is changing the focus from domination is reinforced to productive uses of power.
A researcher is interested in the literacy practices of adolescent immigrants. She records their language arts classes and interviews the students and teacher. Her analysis focuses on description and finding themes. What type of study is this?
Case study
Critical discourse analysis
A researcher is interested in the literacy practices of adolescent immigrants. She records their language arts classes and interviews the students and teacher. Her analysis focuses on how systems of power are reproduced. What type of study is this?
Case study
Critical discourse analysis
What do critical discourse analysts study?
Forms of communication other than talk
The rhetorical styles used in written and oral communication
The way discourses "frame" our understanding of the social world
The way power structures are reproduced.
