DISCOURSE ANALSIS ASSIGNMENT STUDY 2023 SPRING

CHOOSE TWO QUESTIONS OF THE SECTION A (BLACK)AND FOUR QUESTIONS OF SECTION B

(COLOURED)AND ANSWER THEM THOROUGHLY IN YOUR OWN WORDS.TOTAL 6 QUESTIONS WILL
BE ANSWERED.

A)CHOOSE 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWER THEM THOROUGHLY IN AT LEAST 1 PARAGRAPH.(10 POINTS

EACH)

1.what are some of the rules that students follow when talking to their teachers? What is the degree
of formality? what topics do they talk to their teachers about, and some topics they do not talk
about? Are there typical ways they start and end a conversation with a teacher? How do they differ
according the place they are at?

2.What factors influence the way you use language when you speak? is your use of

language influenced by your ethnic identity, your kind of education, your age, your gender or your
occupation?

3.Think of a situation where you have experienced cross-cultural pragmatic failure; that is, a situation
you think there has been a misunderstanding and the reason for this is cross-cultural.

Explain what happened, why you think it happened and what you would tell someone else who

found themselves in a similar situation.

4.If you have learnt a second language, think of an example of the kinds of things that conversational
analysis looks at that you have found difficult in your second language. For example, have you found
refusing an offer of food difficult in your second language? Have you sometimes not been sure how
to participate in a conversation? Why do you think this might be the case?

B)CHOOSE 4 OF THESE QUESTIONS AND ANSWER THEM USING YOUR OWN WORDS IN AT LEAST
TWO PARAGRAPHS.(20 POINTS EACH)

1.what is discourse analysis?what are some different views of it?explain.

2.explain identity and gender in discourse. Give examples in how these differ and reflect in society
and speech.

3.how does ideology change between cultures?give examples between countries and explain.

4.what is pragmatics?explain speech acts in discourse.

5.what is a presupposition?compare flouting and violating maxims through examples.

6.explain cross cultural pragmatics by comparing languages.give examples and explain.

7.how does politeness and gender vary between cultures?explain by giving examples.

8.what is genre?what are some characteristics?explain.

9.how does spoken genre differ across cultures?explain and give examples.

10.what is conversation analysis?what does it study?explain.

11.explain adjacency pairs across cultures.

12.what is the critisizm in conversation analysis?explain.