Answers to Review Practice for Discourse analysis A. TRUE/F ALSE
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 institutionalised forms of talk.
2. Conversation analysis is concerned with analysing transactional conversations
where the emphasis is on close observation of the behaviour of participants in talks.
3. Coherence can be understood in two ways: cohesion and collocation.
4. Traditionally, language analysis stopped at the sentence level.
5. Speaking is redundant, transient whereas writing tends to avoid redundancy and be permanent.
6. Only endophoric reference is cohesive, and in the majority of cases it is cataphoric.
7. Cohesion is the sets of grammatical, lexical and phonetic relationships that link
different parts within discourse.
8. A text that is cohesive necessarily has coherence.
9. In the following sentence, “ ” is the interpersonal t Actually heme and “ the
concert” is topical theme: Actually, the concert was beyond my expectation.
10. Interpersonal themes reveal both the information and the attitude of the speaker.
11. Theme progression is of three options: zigzag, theme reiteration, multiple theme.
12. Only the subject can be front-placed as the theme of a clause/ sentence.
13. Each genre has typical features, some of which may be linguistics, some
paralinguistic, and some contextual and pragmatic.
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.
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.
16. Transactional interactions usually involve people in casual conversations where
the main purpose is to establish or maintain social contact.
17. In most service encounters in shops in western cultures, the following structure is
common: Offer of service ^ request for service^ Transaction^ Salutation
18. In adjacency pairs, the first pair part “ warning” can only be followed by the
second pair part “acknowledgement”.
19. Clausal Ellipsis is a cohesive device used in: (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:
Thesis statement/Position ^Argument A, Argument B, etc.^ Restatement of
position/ summing up/recommendation 1 KEY 1
A . True- False: X for the correct answer. 1-x F 2-T x 3-T x 4-x F 5-x F 6-T x 7-x F 8-T x 9-x F 10-T x 11- X 12-T 13-x 14-T 15-T 16-T 17-x 18-T 19-T 20- x F F x F x x x F x x B. Blank-filling
Fill in the blank spaces in each question below with one word or one phrase.
1. ..................................... is a cohesive device in: A: Have the children gone to sleep?
B: They must have done.
2. ......................................is a cohesive device in: A: Is it ? going to rain B: I don’t think so.
3. The ......................... theme pattern is one in which the subject matter in the rheme
of one clause is taken up in the theme of a following clause.
4. The theme-rheme pattern in the following pair of sentences
is.....................................
Japan is in the northern hemisphere. It has four clearly defined seasons.
5. The schematic structure of the Anecdote text type is Abstract- Crisis- ..................- Coda.
6. Classroom interactions between teachers and students generally have the pattern
of 3-part exchanges containing .......................- Response- Follow-up.
7. Casual conversations generally have broad elements of predictable structure
embedded in them as follows: Opening stages- ......................- Ending stages
8. The lexical cohesive device of......................... is used in the following sentence:
Joan bought some roses, and Bill some carnations.
9. The following two sentences have the theme pattern of ............................
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.
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. 2 B. Blank- Filling
1....verb substitution............... 2. .Clausal substitution 3.zigzag .
4.. Constant theme/theme reiteration 5. Reaction..............
6 Initiation......................
7 .Middle stages........................... 8 Clausal ellipsis............
9. Multiple theme/ split rheme ..............
10. paralellism & emotional effect. 3