9 Questions
Discourse analysis originated in the 1950s and shifted the focus from studying sentences to larger linguistic units.
True
Discourse analysis is only concerned with written texts and not spoken data.
False
Halliday and Hasan support the text-discourse distinction and believe that a text must form a unified whole.
False
Which of the following is NOT one of the fields that have contributed to the development of discourse analysis?
Sociology
According to Crystal, how does he define discourse?
A continuous stretch of language larger than a sentence
How do Halliday and Hasan differ from Brown and Yule in defining text or discourse?
They do not support the text-discourse distinction
What is discourse analysis concerned with studying? It is concerned with the study of the relationship between language and its ______ situation, the context cultural influences which affect language in use.
social
According to Brown and Yule, what is text? It is the representation of discourse and the ______ record of a communicative act.
verbal
What is the term used to describe a continuous stretch of language larger than a sentence, often constituting a coherent unit? It is called ______.
discourse
Test your knowledge on the evolution and significance of discourse analysis in linguistics, semiotics, psychology, and communication studies with our quiz! Learn about the shift from sentence-level studies to the analysis of larger linguistic units in discourse and the impact of cognitive science and artificial intelligence on this field.
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