Midterm Examination Discourse Analysis

Kanjuruhan University
1. Define and discuss on your own what discourse analysis is? Why it is important in teaching
language for communication?
2. How do top-down and bottom-up processing complement each other in interpreting and
producing communicative discourse? Provide sound explanation?
3. Why does “shared knowledge” play a vital role in communication? Explain?
4. Describe the six major classes of cohesive devices, namely Pronouns, Determiners and
Quantifiers, Substitution, Ellipsis, Lexical cohesion, Conjunctions and other conjunction-like
links?
Do discourse analysis on each of the following speech exchange (number 5 to 8) with reference to top-
down and bottom-up processing, shared knowledge and the six major classes of cohesive devices
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7. Ff

8. ff