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1- According to the Buhler's Organon model,
when in utterances a reference is made to a
story, this is called the....... aspect. 3.
symbol
2-Which condition concerns those
circumstances that are essential for the
uptake of an illocution as the intended
illocution? 1. The preparatory condition
3-" Try to make your contribution one that
is true" refers to Grice's maxims of .....
2. quality
4-In Hymes's speaking model, the tone of
conversation is described as....
3. keys
5-Which component of discourse is about the
symbolic organization of the text, its
status ,and its
function in the context?
4. mode
6-Which of the following means that a
sequence of sentences is related by form or
meaning to other sequences of sentences? 2.
intertextuality
7-Language is not only used for giving
information. It is also used for checking
the chael or making
contact.This is called....... 3. phatic
communion
8-Which one is not asynchronous?
2. chat groups
9- According to GeM model, the ways the
intended mode(s) of consumption of the
documents is/are supported refer to...... 1.
navigation structure
10-The term ........ denotes the relations
between sentences and sentence segments.
3. microstructure
11-Which of the following rule makes a
series of specific propositions to be
converted into a more
general propositon?
4. generalization 12- Reference deals with a
.........relationship whereas substitution
and ellipsis deal with the
relationship between ..........
2. semantic/grammatical units
13-Semantic and pragmatic relations coect
segments on the basis of their........and .
respectively.
4. locutions/illocutions 14-Words in
discourse follow each other in a linear
fashion in terms of importance, this
phenomenon
refers to......
3. staging
15-Which one is not among Sanders et al.'s
four primitives?
1. subject matter relations

16-Which one can be presented from an
ideological aspect?
2. vision
17-Which of the following choices is the
collective term for all possible implicit
information which can
be derived from a discourse?
1. inferences
18-Following Humboldt's principle, every
language has a tendency against.......
4. homonymy
19- According to Critical Discourse
Analysis, discourse is seen as a reflection
of the .......... relations in society.
3. power
20-Type of utterance, using "hm, really?
well,well" is classified as......
2. collateral communication
21-Which transcription system was inspired
by the written representation of music?
3. score notation
22-Which one is not a presentation marker?
3. oh
23-Which of the following methods is aimed
at measuring the comprehension of a text
after reading?
2. off-line 24-Which criterion is not among
CCC model?
4. comprehensibility
25-Which of the following choices denotes a
critical representation of a person's action
in a narrative?
2. opacity
26-The argumentative relationship between
claim and data is called........
1. warrant
27-Following the factors in persuading an
audience,which of the following choices
refers to all the
emotions that an orator has to evoke in his
audience in order to persuade?
3. pathos
28-Which of the following choices caot be
described as the characteristics of
knowledge-telling
model?
2. Experienced writers only have the
knowledge-transforming model at their
disposal.
29-Which of the following choices refers to
our knowledge about the ordering of
activities?
4. scenario
30-In the following example, which strategy
can be found in a judicial context?
These immigrants have no right of abode in
Hong Kong under the basic law." Mr.Justice
Yeung added. 1. delegitimation

1- According to the Organon model, Language
is an instrument with which objectives can
be achieved and this instrument ......... 1.
can't be separated from speakers and
listeners
01..
2- Which explanation refers to illocution?
4. the act that is committed by producing an
utterance. 3-When the utterance provides
some indications of the intended illocution,
the indications are called ......... 1.
IFIDS
4-What is the act of making something
manifest to the addressee and helping him to
understand the meaning?
3. Ostensive communication
5-The need of the participants in the social
process that is to be appreciated by others
is referred
to..........
1. Positive face
....... and can be achieved by not
6-Face work that deals with negative face is
known as ....
infringing another's domain in the
communication.
2. Respect politeness
7-Which item does not show the
characteristics of social rules? They are
.........
3. not violated
8-Which statement refers to one of the major
objections to the Shaon and Weaver's
model?
2. The model did not take into account the
situation and illocutionary force.
9-What is the sum of the joint and mutual
knowledge, beliefs and suppositions of the
participants called? 1. Common ground
10-The ........is used to denote the context
of situation and the context of culture.
1. social Context
11 - What are the three aspects of social
contexts mentioned by Halliday and Hasan?
2. Field, tenor, mode
12-The coection that results when the
interpretation of a textual element is
dependent on another
element in the text refers to.......
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4. Cohesion
13- According to Jakobsong the use of
language for checking chael or contact is
called........
2. Phatic communion
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14-The .................aspect refers to the
combination of words in a sentence and the
way these
combinations are made is governed by fixed
rules.
1. Syntagmatic
15-The functions seldom occur in a pure
form. They are merged. This mix of modes,
which is nearly
always present in communication is called
............. 1. Multimodality
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16-In the sentence, "What a pity that the
poor boy can't cope with the horrible
truth”, which one of
the followings is correct about the
“proposition" of this sentence?
3. The sentence is consisted of four
propositions.
17-Which one is not correct about the
"topic"?
4. Discourse topic is the same as sentence
topic. 18-Which principle refers to; "The
less predictable or accessible a referent
is, the more phonological material will be
used to code it"? 1. Code quantity principle
19-Which one is not correct about "advance
organizers”?
1. Advance organizers are conventionalized
schemes that provide the global form for the
macrostructure. 20-Which of the followings
is not a kind of cohesion?
3. Relevance 21-In sentence; "When he came
in, John tripped over the blocks”, if he'
does not refer to 'John' but
refers to another person, What is this kind
of reference called? 4. Exophor
22-In the sentence, "John prepared a pie for
his parents. (But) he forgot to put it on
the oven", if the topic in the context is
forgetfulness, then..........
2. The second sentence is the nucleus.
23-What kind of deixis is seen in novels in
which the first person narrator does not
necessarily have to refer to the author?
3. Phantasmatic
24-What refers to the fact that speakers and
writers can present their information in
such a way that
some elements will be in the foreground
while others remain in the background? 1.
Staging
25-Which item is not related to the
definition of style?
4. In discourse studies, style is studied
with a focus on ornamentation. 26- The right
way of studying discourse, according to
Bakhtin (1981) is to view discourse....
3. as inherently dialogic
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27-The objective approach to stylistic
analysis emphasizes ............
4. a description of differences in
formulation patterns through using evaluate
adjectives
28-What denotes a critical representation of
a person's action in a narrative?
1. Opacity
29-Which one refers to all the emotions that
an orator has to evoke in his audience in
order to persuade?
3. Pathos
30-Which item refers to one of the most
widely used units of measurement of
syntactic complexity?

1-Which function of Buhler's 'Organon' model
refers to the sender of the utterance and
his intention?
4. Symptom
2-Which conditions are used to show that
performative sentences are successful?
1. Felicity
3-Which implicatures are context - dependant
or refer to the meaning that an addressee
has to
deduct from the locution?
2. Conversational
4-The need of the participants in the social
process that is to be free and not
interfered with, is referred to..
2. Negative face
5-Which statement is NOT true of rules and
norms?
4. Rules are assumed to always be valid and
caot be violated.
6-Which one is the sum of the joint and
mutual knowledge, beliefs and suppositions
of the
participants?
3. Common ground
7-The coection that results when the
interpretation of a textual element is
dependent on another
element in the text, refers to........
4. Cohesion
8-According to Halliday and Hassan, there
are some aspects for a social context. Which
aspect refers to what is happening or the
gist of what the discourse is about? 1.
Field
9- According to .... ...... language is not
only used for giving information, it is also
used for
checking the chael or making contact.
3. Phatic communion
10-What is the aspect which refers to the
combination of words in a sentence or the
way these
combinations are made by fixed rules?
2. Syntagmatic
11- According to Bakhtin,"In written
discourse, utterances are responses to other
utterances and
questions provoked or expected by readers.
which term is used for discourse containing
references to different people?
1. Polyphony
12-The mix of modes, which is nearly always
present in communication is called .......
2. Multimodality
13-According to Swales (1990), genre is....
1. a class of communicative events with
content and form limitations.
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14- In a propositional analysis, which of
the following parts are not disregarded? 3.
The minimal unit of meaning
15-In the following conversation, which item
is not considered as a right definition for
topic?
A: I had coffee at Mary's yesterday. B: Say,
did you hear that her neighbor wants to get
a divorce? 2. "the neighbor" is the topic
which is in the background

16-In the following sentence; “The blonde
woman saw a man cross the street. She
immediately
started walking faster”, which word shows
that the topicality is strengthened? 3. She
17-What is the following principle called?
"The less predictable or accessible a
referent is, the more
phonological material will be used to code
it".
1. Code quantity
18- Macrostructures consist of the following
except.........rules.
4. microstructure
19-When the text provides clues about
macrostructure or superstructure, the clues
are called.........
2. advance organizers
20-In the sentence, “When he came in, John
tripped over the blocks”.
What is it called if "he" refers to another
person, except John? 1. Exophor
21 - The idea that two or more relations can
hold at the same time is known as ......
..which shows that discourse relations can
exist on more than one level simultaneously;
on both a semantic and a pragmatic level.
3. Multi-Level Hypothesis
22-Which kind of cohesion refers to the
links between the content words such as;
nouns, verbs,
adjectives and adverbs and includes
reiteration and collocation?
4. Lexical cohesion
23-Which term refers to the fact that
speakers and writers can present their
information in such a
way that some elements will be in the
foreground while others remain in the
background?
1. Staging
24-All possible implicit information which
can be derived from a discourse refers to ..
..........
2. Inference
25-A general suggestion in the ......
......... stylistics analysis is to use
figures of speech - like
metaphor, personification. Irony - with a
certain restraint, and that if they are
applied, they must enlighten some aspects of
the content.
2. normative
26-Which statement is NOT true the turn-
taking model of transcription? 9-163
4. There are strict rules concerning the
number of turns a participant can take or
the possible content
of a turn.
27-Which one of the following is not
regarded in comprehensibility of a text?
4. Discourse quality
28-Which item refers to words and phrases
that indicate the extent to which the
speaker believes
what he has said is proved? 1. Evidentials
29-Which one refers to all the emotions that
an orator has to evoke in his audience in
order to
persuade?
3. Pathos
30-Which item refers to one of the most
widely used units of measurement of
syntactic complexity?
2. T-unit

1-In Organon model, a sign functions as a
....... as it says something about sender.
3. symptom
2- In the following sentence, the meaning of
which word remains constant in different
situations: "My friend and I are standing on
the roof now."
4. roof 3-Speech act theory originates from
the school of philosophy which is called ...
4. ordinary language philosophy
4-Solidarity politeness refers to face work
that....
1. is aimed at positive face. 5-How a
listener's suddenly looking away must be
interpreted according to the....
SPEAKING model.
.....in Hymes's
1. norms 6- The ... ..... .......of
discourse refers to what part the language
plays and the participants'
expectations about what language can do for
them in that situation. 4. mode
7-The ideational meaning of a discourse
corresponds to the .................
2. field
8- When the interpretation of a textual
element is dependent on another element in
the text, the
coection that results is called.
4. cohesion 9- Subdivision of discourse
types into speaking and writing is referred
to as....
3. chael 10-The right way of studying
discourse, according to Bakhtin (1981) is to
view discourse..........
2. as inherently dialogic 11-"Be perspicuous
and brief” refers to the maxim
of................. while investigating
electronic
discourse. 1. maer
12-A .....................15
...............is a class of communicative
events with shared recognizable
communicative purposes. These purposes give
rise to exploitable constraints concerning
content and form (Swales , 1990).
2. genre
13-In discourse studies ........... is used
in a more general sense, to denote the
minimal unit of
meaning, which has a verb, the predicate, as
its core and one or more arguments that
relate to it.
1. proposition 14-A discourse has a
structure of meaning that makes clear what
does and what does not belong to
the core of the content, or the gist of the
discourse. According to Teun van Dijk
(1980), this statement refers to ..........
4. macrostructure
15-With respect to lexical
cohesion.....................includes not
only repetition but also synonymy and
can also occur through the use of a word
that is systematically linked to a previous
one. 1. reiteration

16- Rhetorical Structure Theory starts by...
2. dividing a text into minimal units
17-A relation is positive when the basic
operation coects the content of two text
segments as given
and negative when it coects the content of
one of the segments with the negation of the
content of the other. This statement
explains the notion of ............proposed
by Sanders et al. (1992).
2. polarity 18-In discourse studies, the
degree to which a speaker identifies with a
person or object which is part
of an event or condition that is described
in a sentence refers to............
4. empathy
19- The only type of information that is
unaffected by denial of the original
sentence is
called..........
3. presupposition 20-Which one is NOT a main
subcategory of inference?
4. hedging
21-A general suggestion in the
................. stylistics analysis is to
use figures of speech - like
metaphor, personification, Irony - with a
certain restraint, and that if they are
applied, they must enlighten some aspects of
the content.
3. normative 22-Which statement is NOT true
regarding the turn-taking model of
transcription? 4. There are strict rules
concerning the number of turns a participant
can take or the possible content
of a turn. 23-The CCC model of judging
discourse quality is based on three
criteria:..............., consistency and
correctness.
1. coherence
24-The communication audit is 1. a
questioaire survey with which researchers
can retrieve data on the communicative
health of a
company.
25-In the organizational approach the term
..............is often used instead of story
to emphasize
social cohesion and cultural norms.
3. narrative
26-In the................... approach the
term narrative is often used instead of
story. In this view not
only general verbal interaction but
specifically narratives can tell us how
people relate to each other and how they use
narratives to position themselves as members
of a group. 1. organizational
.warrant link claim and data
27-According to Toulmin's model of
argumentation, the .........
by expressing the benefit of the claim for
the receiver.
2. motivational
28-Which statement is true about Toulimin's
model of argumentation?
3. The model does not distinguish between
different types of data and warrants.
.......... discourse analysis.
29-The element of power is extensively
investigated in.....
1. critical
30-If.................... is high, then
formal rules and procedures are highly
estimated.
3. uncertainty avoidance

1- What is the symptom in the following
sentence? Have you heard that strange story
about the drunk who decided to play barber
and cut off his friend's ear?
2. Strange
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2- .............has had a strong influence
on the field of discourse studies as this
theory focuses on
the question of what people are doing when
they use language.
3. Speech act theory
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3- According to Austin (1967), Illocution
refers to....
2. the act that is committed by producing an
utterance
4-The examples of constatives are........
1. Claiming and describing 5-In the
following conversation, B is acting in
accordance with the cooperative principle
and is mostly adhering to the maxim of....
A: I am out of petrol. B:There is a garage
round the corner.
4. Relevance
6- Pragmatics is about .....
1. the relationship between signs and people
who use them.
7-Ideational meaning corresponds to the
......
3. Field
8- According to Crystal (2001), browsing the
web may result in many irrelevant hits that
is a violation
of .....
2. Relevance
9-Which of the following sentences is an
example of reference?
2. We grew up in the 1960s. We were
idealistic then.
10-Linking two main clauses is
called..........
1. Paratactic
11-What kind of cohesion is used in the
following sentence?
A conference will be held on national
environmental policy. This environmental
symposium will be primarily a conference
dealing with water.
4. Synonym
12-In which of the following examples
metonymy is used?
3. After its six-month checkup, the brakes
have to be repaired. In general, the car was
in good condition.
13- In the following example which type of
rhetorical relations is used.
Now I am throwing in the towel. I've tried
it ten times. 1. Justification
14-Which of the following is an example of
presentational relations?
4. Motivation
15-If the topic in the following context is
forgetfulness, then the nucleus is ....
John prepared a pie for his parents. But he
forgot to put it in the oven. 3. John forgot
to put it in the oven

1- Which of the following is not the aim of
discourse studies?
3. Studies language use out of the context
2-According to Plato's Cratylus
,.............
3. Words are instruments with which actions
can be performed
3-In the following sentence, the symbol is
.....
"Have you heard that strange story about the
drunk who decided to play barber and cut off
his friend's ear?"
1. Reference to story 4-According to Otto
Jespersen, .....
1. The essence of language is human
activity.
5- Which of the following sentence contains
a performative verb?
2. I promise that I will come. 6-According
to Austin (1967), perlocution refers
to.......
3. the production of an effect through
locution and illocution
7- In the following conversation, what is
the illocution?
A) There is a good movie tonight. B) O.K
lets go 1. Invitation
8- The essential condition of promising
someone is that
1. the speaker should be responsible for
carrying out the act. 9-The examples of
regulatives are...........
2. Inviting and requesting 10-Which of the
following is NOT an example of illocutionary
force indicating devices?
1. Constatives verbs
11-Which of the following definitions refers
to the Quality Maxim?
1. Try to be truthful
12-According to Spencer and Wilson's
relevance theory, ......
1. An essential feature of most
communications is understanding each other.
13- The way that new information can
interact with what is already known is
referred to as ....
1. Contextual effects 14-A/an .............
represents its object and determines its
interpretant on the basis of conventions.
3. Symbol
15- The phone ringing is an example of...
2. Index

16-Semiotics is about ......
1. how signs function 17-Which of the
following is not a characteristic of social
rules?
2. They are applied consciously
18-Norms are.........
3. guidelines with an ethic aspect.
19- The tone of the conversation refers to
........ of speech events.
2. Keys
20-Textual meaning corresponds to the
.............
3. Mode
21-Language which is used for making contact
is called ........
1. Phatic communion
22-According to Crystal (2001), browsing the
web may result in many irrelevant hits is a
violation
of .... 4. Relevance
23-Which of the following sentences is an
example of substitution?
2. These biscuits are stale. Get some fresh
ones. 24-Which of the following example is a
clausal ellipsis?
3. Who wants to go shopping? You?
25-Combing a main clause with a subordinate
clause is called
2. Hypotactic
26-What kind of cohesion is used in the
following sentence?
We went shopping for furniture. We saw a
lovely table.
3. Hyponymy
27-Which of the following is an example of
Subject-Matter relations?
2. Cause
28-What is the conventional implicature of
the following sentence?
Frank is athletic for a white guy.
1. White guys are not very athletic. 29- In
which of the following examples, the focus
is on illness of Mary?
2. John does not go to school, because Mary
is ill. 30-An author's use of vocabulary,
level of diction, sentence structure,
arrangement of ideas refers to ...........
3. Style

In the concept of topic, which statement is
true about the Theme:
d) It is what is under discussion in a given
situation.
If a reader or listener knows everything
contained in a discourse or does not
understand anything, it does not qualify as
discourse and the criteria of
......... has been violated.
a) informativeness
In the statement "There is a draft in here"
the perlocution could be.
a) that a window gets closed
Which of the following conditions denote the
statement "the act that the speaker commits
himself to (the proposition)" in the
felicity conditions for speech act of
promising?
✓
a
) propositional content
Which macrorule(s) have been used to convert
discourse fragment (A) into summary (B)? A)
Mother was listening to the radio while she
did the dishes. Father was busy vacuuming
the floor. B) The parents were cleaning the
house.
b) deletion and generalization
Considering Werlich's discourse typology,
what basic form explains news story?
b) Narrative
If the uptake by the listener of the
following utterance is "never mind", what
would be the illocution of the utterance:
"There is a good movie tonight."
d) Excuse
The main advantage of GeM model is the fact
that it can be used for analyzing.....
Which of the following is considered as an
advance organizer?
d) Table of content of a book
Based on Stegger's model, in which category
would you place "sermon"?
a) presentation
Maxims are assumed to..
b) be always valid

Which one prevents or repairs the damage
caused by FTA?
✓
d
) politeness
The action which is meant to improve the
stability between conversational partners is
referred to as
c) redressive action
All the following are among the macro-rules
of macro-structures except..
d) constitution
Which of the following is considered as an
example of synchronous computer-mediated
communication?
c) chat groups
The...................... is used to denote
the context of situation and the context of
culture.
✓
a
) social context
In speech act theory, language is seen as a
form of.............
c) acting
In Hymes' SPEAKING model, the Form and the
Content of the message are referred to as
..................
c) act sequences
In Organon model, a sign functions as a
.....
........as it says something about the
objects and states of
affairs.
a) symbol
According to Halliday and Hassan, which
aspect of social context refers to what is
happening and to the nature of the social
action?
b) Field
In HYMES'S SPEAKING model, instrumentalities
refer to the.....
.......
a) chaels and forms of speech
Which one was disregarded in Shaon and
Weaver's general communication model?
c) illocutionary force
In van Dijk term, the relation between
sentences and sentence segment which are
represented with the help of propositions is
referred to as:
c) microstructure
A sign can be an index which means that
it..........
Ob) directs attention to the object