10 Questions
What can be inferred about Suzy's actions in the restaurant?
She opened a door, ate a sandwich, and paid for it
What is the primary evidence for the existence of scripts?
The information that turns up in people's attempts to remember the text
What is the main point of the instructions on the bottle of cough syrup?
To drink the cough syrup from the measure cup every 2 or 3 hours
What is the relationship between language structures and knowledge structures?
Our understanding of what we read is based on both language structures and knowledge structures
What is the focus of the study of discourse understanding?
The connection between language structures and knowledge structures
What is the term for the assumed knowledge that readers bring to a text?
Knowledge structures
What is the purpose of studying the workings of the human brain in language understanding?
To understand how we process language
What is the term for the connections between different texts?
Intertextuality
What is the benefit of understanding scripts in language understanding?
It helps us understand what is not explicitly stated
What is the main idea of the passage?
The connection between language structures and knowledge structures in language understanding
This quiz covers the knowledge of conversation works, including speech events, linguistic knowledge, and research in conversation analysis.
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