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Discourse analysis

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

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1.

According to Émile Benveniste, every discourse has:

a)

a speaker who informs the receiver

b)

a hearer who listen to the radio

c)

a speaker who influences the hearer

d)

political goals

2.

Following Benvenite we could say that

a)

discourses are everything a politican says

b)

discourses are important

c)

discourse is language un action

d)

when we use language we produce discourse

3.

The enunciator is:

a)

a human being

b)

the perspective of the human being

c)

the perspective of the text

d)

a position constructed through language

4.

The co-enunciator is:

a)

the one who receives the message

b)

the one imagined by the enunciator to read that text

c)

the ideal receiver of the text

d)

the one who reads the text

5.

Enunciation is the process by which the subject uses languages to

a)

constitute himself as enunciator and a co-enunciator

b)

to create discourse

c)

to create a voice in the text

d)

none of them are correct

6.

Objectivity is when

a)

the author shares facts

b)

the author is disguised from the text

c)

the author has a neutral position

d)

the author seems erased from the text

7.

When the author appears in the text evaluating the exposed information, the text is

(a)  

8.

Both subjective and objective texts are effects of meaning because:

a)

every text involves subjectivity

b)

every text constructs an enunciator and a treatment of the topic

c)

every text is neutral

d)

they are not such thing

9.

The perspective of the text is objective or subjective depending on:

a)

the referent

b)

the subject

c)

the purpose and the communicative situation

d)

the subject and the referent

10.

Subjectivity markers reveal the subject position in the text

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Not sure

11.

Axiological nouns & adjectives evaluate the referent

a)

through a judgement of value

b)

through qualitive and quantitive aspects

c)

Give me a break

d)

in terms of good/bad or true/false

12.

Non-axiological nouns & adjectives evaluate the referent

a)

in terms of good or bad

b)

they actually don't

c)

in terms of qualitive or quantitive aspects

d)

What is a noun?

13.

Affective nouns and verbs express

a)

the judgment value of the speaker

b)

the emotion of the speaker

c)

the political view

d)

an opinion

14.

When a word is meaningful only a given context, we talk about

(a)