DISCOURSE ANALYSIS - EXAM PREPARATION

Define the notion of face as developed by Goffman. Describe what is meant by positive face and negative face. Give two examples of acts which can threaten positive face, and two examples of acts which can threaten negative face. What is meant by politeness in linguistics? In other words, how is the notion of politeness different in linguistics from what it is in our everyday use of the term? Which three factors affect the choice of politeness strategies?

================================================ a) b) c) d) e) Define metaphor from a cognitive linguistics point of view. What are the two concepts involved in a metaphor? Explain by means of an example of your own. Provide two examples for the LIFE IS A JOURNEY metaphor, and two for the MINDAS-BODY metaphor. For each group, supply the missing name of a part of the body so as to make examples of conventionalised metaphors: of department, of state, of government, of a page, of a queue, of a flower, of a beer, of stairs, of a bed, of a tape recorder, of a syntactic construction of a potato, of a needle, of a hurricane of an aircraft, of a tool, of a gun of land, of the woods, of a shirt of a chair, of the sea, of a coat or jacket, of a record player

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Define metonymy, and provide three examples. Provide two examples of your own for each of the following metonymic strategies: CONTAINER FOR CONTENTS WHOLE FOR PART PART FOR WHOLE CONTROLLER FOR CONTROLLED OBJECT USED FOR USER

================================================ What is a corpus? Name the four basic corpus linguistic techniques. What is concordancing, and what can be learnt from concordances?

What is meant by key words in corpus linguistics? Explain in detail what a lexico-grammatical profile is. Name three areas in which corpora have been used. What is meant by semantic prosody? What is forensic linguistics? What contribution has corpus linguistics made to English Language Teaching?