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Discourse Analysis - 1 & 2

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

My father loves his car. He never lends it to me.

The underlined words are examples of...

a)

Coherence

b)

Script

c)

Cohesion ties

2.

(a)   can be defined as the study of language in its contexts of use.

3.

In this way of creating cohesion, words are omitted because they are understood from the context. e.g., "John can type and I can [type] too!"; "I don't want to go out, do you? [want to go out]".

a)

Substitution

b)

Conjunction

c)

Lexis

d)

Ellipsis

4.

In this sentence: “Some people argue that its positives outweigh its negatives”.

Which type of lexical cohesion can you find in the above sentence?

a)

Synonymy

b)

Antonymy

c)

Meronymy

5.

If it is semantically meaningful, if the ideas flow logically to produce an understandable entity it is called ... .

a)

coherence

b)

cohesion

6.

The grammatical and lexical connections that tie a text together contributing to its meaning are called ....

a)

coherence

b)

cohesion

7.

Language is ambiguous. What is likely the meaning of the expression?

a)

People don’t always mean to say something

b)

People don’t always say what they see

c)

People don’t always say what they mean

8.

Anaphora is a reference used to

a)

refer back to another word used earlier

b)

refer to another word used in front of the intended word

9.

 Rani was great. She could grasp a lot of information from a discourse at once. The reference is

a)

cataphoric

b)

anaphoric

10.

Which of the following is UNLIKELY studied in Discourse Analysis?

a)

Political news

b)

physic text

c)

controversial talk show

d)

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