Language Levels- DISCOURSE

Question 1

Define Critical Discourse Analysis

Answer 1

The use of linguistic analysis to explore and challenge the ideologies, positions and values of texts and their producers.

Question 2

Define ‘Adjuncts’.

Answer 2

Non-essential elements of clauses that can be omitted (e.g. “I’ll see you in the morning”).

Question 3

Define ‘Disjuncts’.

Answer 3

Sentence adverbs that work to express an attitude or stance towards material that follows (e.g. “Frankly, I’m appalled..” “Sadly not one of them survived.”).

Question 4

Define discourse markers.

Answer 4

Words, phrases, or clauses that help to organise what we say or write (e.g. ‘okay’, ‘so’, ‘as I was saying’).

Question 5

Define interdiscursivity.

Answer 5

The use of discourses from one field as a part of another (e.g. the use of science discourse in the selling of beauty products).

Question 6

(Referencing) Define anaphoric reference.

Answer 6

Making reference back to something previously identified in a text.

Question 7

(Referencing) Define cataphoric reference.

Answer 7

Making reference forward to something as yet unidentified in a text.

Question 8

(Referencing) Define exophoric reference.

Answer 8

Making physical reference to something beyond the language of the text itself, (e.g. “Look at that”).