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Discourse analysis: social interaction and spoken interaction (C

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Decide if the statement is True or False:

Language users are only speakers, writers, listeners and readers.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Teachers and Students refer to what type of context?

a)

physical context

b)

social context

c)

interpersonal context

3.

What are the properties of impromptu speech?

a)

errors

b)

false start

c)

repetitions

d)

all are correct

4.

What concepts are analyses in SI?

a)

action, context, power, ideology

b)

perspective, components, implications, consequences

c)

action, context, implications, consequences

d)

perspective, components, power, ideology

5.

Fill in the blank.

It is a default assumption in human conduct that a current action, should be, and normally will be, responsive to the immediately (a)   one

6.

The hegemonic process might be delivered through discourse structure, as well as those of mind, action and society so that text and talk may thus (a)   people into doing what the powerful groups want.

7.

The practices that participants use can:

a)

have distinctive character

b)

have specific locations within a turn or sequence

c)

are distinctive in its consequences for the nature or the meaning of the action that the turn implements

d)

all are correct

8.

The word "any" in questions conveys the expectation of a .......... response.

a)

positive

b)

negative

c)

preferred

9.

Which sentence is NOT TRUE?

a)

Overlap signals annoyance, urgency, or a desire to correct what is being said.

b)

Turn-taking mechanisms vary among cultures, languages and situations.

c)

Pauses signal the speaker's hesitation, his/her being thinking and the end of turns.

d)

Turn-taking does not have universal similarities.

e)

Participants' social status is important in turn-taking.

10.

What denotes the illocutionary or perlocutionary force in an utterance?

a)

repair

b)

gist

c)

upshot

d)

pre-sequence