Sekolah Tinggi Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Saumlaki

Jalan Prof. Dr. Boediono Lauran-Saumlaki

Final Test
Subject : Discourse Analysis
Date : __ Januari 2022
Lecturer : Rendy Oratmangun, S.Pd.,MM

1. Richards and Schmidt ( 1983 ) give the example of ‘Hello’ as an utterance

which can have different meanings in different contexts. Think of another
utterance which can have different
meanings depending on the context.

2. Analyse the extract from Winnie-the-Pooh below in terms of conjunction:

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on
the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the
only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is
another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment to think of it . . . And
then he feels perhaps there isn’t. Anyhow, here he is at the bottom, and ready
to be introduced to you, Winnie-the-Pooh.
When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, ‘But I
thought he was a boy?

3. Huckin ( 2002 ), in his article ‘Textual silence and the discourse of

homelessness’ examines newspaper reporting on homelessness in the United
States. He defines textual silence as ‘the omission of some piece of
information that is pertinent to the topic at hand’ (348). One of the silences he
discusses is manipulative silence, a strategy of deliberately concealing
relevant information from readers to the advantage of the writer. The writer,
thus, decides ‘what to say and what not to say about the topic’ (356). In his
study of 163 newspaper articles and editorials on this topic he found the most
common themes were causes of homelessness, effects of homelessness,
public responses to homelessness and demographics such as number and
types of homelessness. That is, these were the topics that were foregrounded
(Huckin 1997) in the texts. Topics such as treatment of the causes of
homelessness, for example, were omitted, or generally ‘textually silent’.
Look at the following extracts from one of the editorials Huckin
analyses in his article. Which of the themes Huckin lists are represented on
this text? What are some of the issues that are not mentioned, but could have
been featured in this text?