10 Questions
Which linguistic methods have played a predominant role in the study of text and talk?
Structural, generative, or functional grammars
What emerged as increasingly explicit subcomponents of grammars to characterize sound structures, word formation, and the formal structures of sentences?
Phonology, morphology, and syntax
What was developed to provide an account of the meaning of verbal expressions?
Semantics
What does pragmatics describe in the context of utterances?
The role of utterances as speech acts
What did pleas in the late 1960s aim to extend the linguistic framework to?
The real forms of language use, that is, discourse.
Which discipline has paid extensive attention to the various types of discourse used in different cultures within the 'ethnography of speaking' paradigm?
Anthropology
Under the label of 'ethnomethodology', which discipline has focused on the analysis of everyday conversation and rules of sequencing?
Sociology
Which discipline has paid less attention to a systematic analysis of discourse but focused on the systematic effects of discourse and its content on the beliefs and behaviour of individuals in society?
Social Psychology
Which approach aims to determine which semantic structures expressed by which surface structures and stylistic structures are stored in memory and affect existing knowledge and beliefs?
Cognitive approach to discourse
What is a key area where there is little explanatory insight into the underlying cognitive and social processes according to the text?
The relations between discourse structure and the change of beliefs and attitudes
Explore the predominant role of linguistic methods and grammatical analysis in the study of text and talk. Delve into the properties of verbal utterances, including phonology, morphology, and syntax, as explicit subcomponents of structural, generative, or functional grammars.
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