WorksheetsDiscourse Analysis - 1 & 2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
My father loves his car. He never lends it to me.
The underlined words are examples of...
Coherence
Script
Cohesion ties
(a) can be defined as the study of language in its contexts of use.
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]".
Substitution
Conjunction
Lexis
Ellipsis
In this sentence: “Some people argue that its positives outweigh its negatives”.
Which type of lexical cohesion can you find in the above sentence?
Synonymy
Antonymy
Meronymy
If it is semantically meaningful, if the ideas flow logically to produce an understandable entity it is called ... .
coherence
cohesion
The grammatical and lexical connections that tie a text together contributing to its meaning are called ....
coherence
cohesion
Language is ambiguous. What is likely the meaning of the expression?
People don’t always mean to say something
People don’t always say what they see
People don’t always say what they mean
Anaphora is a reference used to
refer back to another word used earlier
refer to another word used in front of the intended word
Rani was great. She could grasp a lot of information from a discourse at once. The reference is
cataphoric
anaphoric
Which of the following is UNLIKELY studied in Discourse Analysis?
Political news
physic text
controversial talk show
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