English 200 Midterm Exam
Choose one that best represents typical social relations of "co-workers" 1) Equal and Distant 2) Unequal and Close 3) Equal and Close 4) Unequal and Distant
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The underlined quoting verb in the following excerpt represents: à 'Priyanka Chopra insists* she DIDN'T break UK Covid lockdown... On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the UK was being plunged into national lockdown with immediate effect, meaning the visit was a blatant violation of the rules' 1) Metapropositional quoting verb 2) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 3) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verb 4) Metalinguistic reporting verb
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These reporting verbs mark the relationship of the quote to other parts of the text/discourse. 1) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verbs 2) Descriptive reporting verbs 3) Metapropositional quoting verbs 4) Metalinguistic reporting verbs
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What kind of reporting verb is used in the following sentence? à 'The management repeated* what they said' 1) Discourse signaling quoting verb 2) Descriptive reporting verb 3) Neutral Structuring verb 4) Metalinguistic reporting verb
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39. Multiple choice question: The underlined quoting verb in the following excerpt represents: à 'The prime minister revealed* he had asked for a full investigation into Guardsman Janes's death' 1) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 2) Metapropositional quoting verb 3) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verb 4) Metalinguistic reporting verb
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Choose one that best represents typical social relations between 'senior managers and junior workers." 1) Equal and Distant 2) Unequal and Distant 3) Equal and Close 4) Unequal and Close
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Power itself is not bad. But when does it become bad or abused? 1) when it is not used by entities with power 2) when it constitutes illegitimate use of power 3) when it is used to serve legitimate use of power 4) when it represents the interest of people without power
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The underlined quoting verb in the following excerpt represents: à 'Priyanka Chopra insists she DIDN'T break UK Covid lockdown... On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced* that the UK was being plunged into national lockdown with immediate effect, meaning the visit was a blatant violation of the rules' 1) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 2) Metapropositional quoting verb 3) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verb 4) Metalinguistic reporting verb
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The underlined quoting verb in the following excerpt represents: à 'The CEO of health care IT company Cerner insulted his management team in an e-mail; when the company's stock took a dive, he apologized* for the e-mail he'd sent' 1) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 2) Metapropositional quoting verb 3) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verb 4) Metalinguistic reporting verb
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The underlined quoting verb in the following excerpt represents: à 'The prime minister had to defend* his position on the parliament's decision to...' 1) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 2) Metapropositional quoting verb 3) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verb 4) Metalinguistic reporting verb
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These reporting verbs represent the writer/author's interpretation of the manner and attitude of a speaker. 1) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 2) Descriptive reporting verbs 3) Metapropositional quoting verbs 4) Metalinguistic reporting verbs
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What do you call cases where opposing concepts and linguistic structures are repetitively used in a text? 1) word connotation 2) structural opposition 3) overlexicalization 4) suppression
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What does the following describe? à Mentally represented structure of the properties of the social situation that are relevant for the production or comprehension of discourse. 1) Power 2) Social context 3) Ideology 4) Dominance
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What does the following description represent? à We ask what linguistic options communicators use, why they use them and what the consequences of these choices are. 1) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 2) Social semiotic theory of language 3) Context 4) Power
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What kind of reporting verb is used in the following sentence? à 'Chairman Chilcot told* audience members to be quiet during the closing comments' 1) Discourse signaling quoting verb 2) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 3) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verb 4) Metalinguistic reporting verb
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Choose one that best represents typical social relations of "friends" 1) Equal and Distant 2) Unequal and Close 3) Equal and Close 4) Unequal and Distant
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Discourse-related social (or interpersonal) contexts can be conceived of in terms of social status and solidarity. Social solidarity is typically manifested as social ______ and _______. 1) Close, Equal 2) Unequal, Distant 3) Close, Distant 4) Unequal, Distant
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Discourse-related social (or interpersonal) contexts can be conceived of in terms of social status and solidarity. Social status is typically manifested as _______ and ________ relations. 1) Equal, Close 2) Close, Distant 3) Equal, Unequal 4) Unequal, Distant
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Find the most appropriate answer that can be used to complete the sentence. à Power as a result of controlling various contexts is largely based on _________. 1) money 2) social status and fame 3) privileged access to valued social resources 4) context
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The underlined quoting verb in the following excerpt represents: à 'The CEO of health care IT company Cerner reiterated* his discontent when the company's stock took a dive' 1) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 2) Metapropositional quoting verb 3) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verb 4) Metalinguistic reporting verb
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These reporting verbs represent the writer/author's interpretation of the purpose, intention, and intent of a speaker. 1) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) reporting verbs 2) Metalinguistic reporting verbs 3) Metapropositional quoting verbs 4) Neutral structuring quoting verbs
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What do the following descriptions represent? - Humans do not live in an objective world, but rather this world is shaped for them by the language that has become the medium of expression in their society. - How we look at (perceive, interpret) the world (that is, our perceived reality) is largely determined by our language; and our language also limits our thought processes. 1) Ideology 2) Context 3) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 4) Power
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What do you call cases where a surfeit of repetitious, quasi-synonymous terms is woven into the fabric of discourse, giving rise to a sense to over-completeness? 1) context 2) discourse 3) minority 4) ideology
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What kind of reporting verb is used in the following sentence? à 'The community leaders claimed* that they have suffered increased levels of abuse' 1) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verb 2) Descriptive reporting verb 3) Metapropositional quoting verb 4) Metalinguistic reporting verb
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Choose one that best represents typical social relations between "news editors and newspaper readership." 1) Equal and Distant 2) Unequal and Close 3) Equal and Close 4) Unequal and Distant
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The underlined quoting verb in the following excerpt represents: à 'The prime minister shouted* that he had asked for a full investigation into Guardsman Janes's death' 1) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 2) Metapropositional quoting verb 3) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) quoting verb 4) Descriptive reporting verb
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These reporting verbs introduce the writer/author's representation of a speaker's speech without explicitly evaluating it. 1) Transcriptive (Discourse signaling) reporting verbs 2) Metalinguistic reporting verbs 3) Descriptive quoting verbs 4) Neutral structuring quoting verbs
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These reporting verbs represent the writer/author's interpretation of the uttered content(s) of a speaker. 1) Neutral structuring quoting verbs 2) Descriptive reporting verbs 3) Metapropositional quoting verbs 4) Metalinguistic reporting verbs
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What do you call cases where certain terms that we might expect to read/hear in a text are absent? 1) lexical field 2) ideological squaring 3) overlexicalization 4) suppression
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What does the following describe? à Commonly accepted belief systems held by individuals and social collectives. à An important means by which dominant forces in society can exercise power over subordinate and subjugated groups 1) context 2) discourse 3) minority 4) ideology
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According to the concept of 'ideological squaring,' negative things about out-groups are deemphasized and played down in (public) text and talk. True False
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According to the concept of 'ideological squaring,' positive things about in-groups are de-emphasized and suppressed in (public) text and talk to show modesty. True False
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According to the concept of 'ideological squaring,' positive things about out-groups are emphasized and elaborated in (public) text and talk. True False
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The concept of 'ideological squaring' means that opposing concepts and lexical items are built up in text and talk to give readers an impartial and fair view of the people, events, and things described in a text. True False
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According to the concept of 'ideological squaring,' negative things about in-groups are deemphasized and suppressed in (public) text and talk. True False
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According to the concept of 'ideological squaring,' positive things about out-groups are deemphasized and played down in (public) text and talk. True False
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The concept of 'ideological squaring' means that opposing concepts and lexical items are built up in a text to give readers a more or less restricted, partial, and sometimes biased view of the people, events, and things described in a text. True False
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Provide at least three examples of valued symbolic power resources
education, jobs, knowledge
Specify at least five components (or elements) that make up social contexts.
overall domain, societal action, setting, goals, material things
Provide at least three examples of valued material power resources
property, capital, wealth
