Tiêu đề Review Practice for Discourse analysis - 2019-2020 ✅

Review Practice for Discourse analysis - 2019-2020 A. TRUE/FALSE 1. Text analysis is concerned with the study of written and spoken texts as language elements strung together in relationships with one another that can be defined while discourse analysis studies language in use: written texts of all kinds, and spoken data, from conversation to highly institutionalized forms of talk. (T /11) 2. Conversation analysis is concerned with analyzing transactional conversations where the emphasis is on close observation of the behavior of participants in talks. (F/ 11) 3.Coherence can be understood in two ways: cohesion and collocation. (F) Situational coherence vs Generic coherence 4. Traditionally, language analysis stopped at the sentence level.(T) 5. Speaking is redundant, transient whereas writing tends to avoid redundancy and be permanent. ( T/18, đoạn 4) 6. Only endophoric reference is cohesive, and in the majority of cases it is cataphoric. (F/24) 7. Cohesion is the set of grammatical, lexical and phonetic relationships that link different parts within discourse. (T/45) 8. A text that is cohesive necessarily has coherence.(F/44) 9. In the following sentence, “Actually” is the interpersonal theme and “ the concert” is topical theme: Actually, the concert was beyond my expectation. (T/57) 10. Interpersonal themes reveal both the information and the attitude of the speaker. (F/57) 11. Theme progression is of three options: zigzag, theme reiteration, multiple theme.(T/58) 12. Only the subject can be front-placed as the theme of a clause/ sentence. (F)
13. Each genre has typical features, some of which may be linguistics, some paralinguistic, and some contextual and pragmatic. (T/65) 14. Genres cannot overlap, e.g., a joke cannot also be a story and one genre cannot contain another, e.g., an anecdote cannot be part of a lecture. (F/65) 15. Interactional situations usually involve people in interactions where they wish to obtain information or goods such as phoning a library for information, going to the bank to obtain a new credit card. (F/76) 16. Transactional interactions usually involve people in casual conversations where the main purpose is to establish or maintain social contact. (F/77) 17. In most service encounters in shops in western cultures, the following structure is common: Of er of service ^ request for service^ Transaction^ Salutation (T/77) 18. In adjacency pairs, the first pair part “ warning” can only be followed by the second pair part “acknowledgement”. (F) 19. Clausal Ellipsis is a cohesive device used in: (F) (1) The symphony was written in 1812. (2) It is considered to be one of the finest in the repertoire of nineteenth century symphonic compositions. 20. The discourse type of Argument tends to have the following schematic structure: (T/66) Thesis statement/Position ^Argument A, Argument B, etc.^ Restatement of position/ summing up/recommendation B. Blank-filling Fill in the blank spaces in each question below with one word or one phrase. 1. .......Verbal substitution.............................. is a cohesive device in: A: Have the children gone to sleep? B: They must have done.
2. ...........Clausal subsitution...........................is a cohesive device in: A: Is it going to rain? B: I don’t think so. 3. The Zigzag theme pattern is one in which the subject matter in the theme of one clause is taken up in the theme of a following clause.(58) 4. The theme-rheme pattern in the following pair of sentences is CONSTANT Japan (T1) is in the northern hemisphere (R1). It(T1) has four clearly defined seasons. (R2) 5. The schematic structure of the Anecdote text type is Abstract- Crisis- REACTION- Coda.(67) *6. Classroom interactions between teachers and students generally have the pattern of 3-part exchanges containing Initiation- Response- Follow-up. 7. Casual conversations generally have broad elements of predictable structure embedded in them as follows: Opening stages- MIDDLE STAGES- Ending stages (83) 8. The lexical cohesive device of CLAUSAL ELLIPIS is used in the following sentence: Joan bought some roses, and Bill some carnations. 35 9. The following two sentences have the theme pattern of MULTIPLE THEME The Japanese use a combination of two separate alphabets as well as ideograms borrowed from Chinese. The two alphabets are called hiragana and katakana. The Chinese ideograms are called Kanji. T1 —> R1
T2 —> R2 T3 —-> R3 10. The cohesive device of.......................... is used in the following passage for the purpose of ................................ He vastly enriched the world by his inventions. He enriched the field of knowledge by his teaching. He enriched humanity by his precepts and his personal examples. Apart from the easy controls, it has all the functions you'd expect from the most advanced digital phone. (5) And several you wouldn't. (6) Like taking memos, receiving text messages, keeping your diary and recognising callers. (7) They make the MT-20 seem more like a complete communications centre than a mobile phone. End-of term test structure An Introduction to Discourse Analysis 1. Time: 60 minutes 2. Structure: 2 parts to test students’ understanding of main concepts and notions of discourse analysis knowledge (both theory and practice): definition of discourse analysis, written language vs spoken language, types of cohesive devices, theme-rheme definitions, types of theme-rheme patterns, cohesion vs coherence, genre, examples of genre types, adjacency pairs, transaction vs interaction talk, classroom discourse 3. Part I: 30 T/F questions (theory + practice) 4. Part II: 10 multiple choice/ gap-fill questions for written text analysis + 10 multiple choice/ gap-fill questions questions for conversation analysis. Written text: - Genres of written discourse, their schematic structure, grammar & vocabulary - Types of lexical cohesion/Lexical cohesive devices