The broad semantic field of a topic

Which of these IS NOT an interrogative tag?

‘Are you going to the party?’

Narrower categories of words within a semantic field

Minimal response (or backchannelling) is a strategy designed to;

Show the speaker that the audience is listening

Anaphoric referencing is;

The use of lexemes referring to something already mentioned

Code-switching refers to;

Switching between two or more languages in conversation

Cataphoric referencing is;

The use of lexemes referring to something not yet mentioned

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Test your knowledge of the Discourse metalanguage for Units 3 and 4.

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1
Hypernyms refer to;
Names of people
Narrower categories of words within a semantic field
The broad semantic field of a topic
Words which sound the same as each other
2
‘I can’t believe you bought this place.’ Is an example of;
Front focus
Code-switching
End Focus
Deixis
3
Which of these IS NOT an interrogative tag?
‘Are you going to the party?’
‘There isn’t training after school today, is there?’
‘Take care, won’t you?’
‘Loyola College is in Watsonia, isn’t it?’
4
Hyponyms refer to;
The broad semantic field of a topic
Narrower categories of words within a semantic field
Words which sound the same as each other
Names of people
5
The use of synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms and collocations can all contribute to a text’s;
Coherence
Cohesion
Logical ordering
Code
6
‘Hello, how are you?’ ‘Good thankyou. How are you?’ is an example of;
Discourse particles
Adjacency pairs
Interrogative tags
Minimal response
7
Turn-taking strategies include;
All of the above
Minimal response
Taking, holding and passing the floor
Topic management
8
Clefting, front and end focus, anaphoric and cataphoric references and deixis are examples of;
Information flow
Code-switching
Cohesion
Logical ordering
9
Topic management, turn-taking and minimal response are all examples of;
Non-fluency features
Minimal response
Vocal effects
Strategies in spoken discourse
10
Omitting a grammatically correct, but not semantically needed, word or phrase is known as;
Substitution
Inference
Ellipsis
Code-switching
11
Which of these IS NOT a discourse particle?
Sort of
Yep
I don't know
You know
12
‘It was Harry who stole the book from the library.’ Is an example of;
Deixis
Clefting
Cataphoric referencing
Anaphoric referencing
13
Minimal response (or backchannelling) is a strategy designed to;
Ensure the floor can be taken
Put the speaker off
Show the speaker that the audience is listening
Insult the speaker
14
Inference, logical ordering, formatting, consistency and conventions are all examples of;
Coherence
Code-switching
Cataphoric referencing
Cohesion
15
Anaphoric referencing is;
The use of lexemes referring to something already mentioned
The use of lexemes referring to something not yet mentioned
The movement of a clause element to the start of a sentence
The movement of a clause element to the end of a sentence
16
Code-switching refers to;
The movement of a clause element to the start of a sentence
The use of lexemes referring to something already mentioned
Switching between two or more languages in conversation
The movement of a clause element to the start of a sentence
17
Pauses, hesitations, false starts, repetition and repairs are all examples of;
Strategies in spoken discourse
Minimal response
Non-fluency features
Vocal effects
18
Cataphoric referencing is;
The movement of a clause element to the end of a sentence
The use of lexemes referring to something already mentioned
The movement of a clause element to the start of a sentence
The use of lexemes referring to something not yet mentioned
19
‘Very slowly, John walked up the street.’ Is an example of;
Anaphoric referencing
Cataphoric referencing
End focus
Front focus
20
‘They are excellent students, the Year 12s.’ is an example of;
Cataphoric referencing
End focus
Front focus
A lie

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