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Discourse Analysis(Eng 421) Question Paper

Discourse Analysis(Eng 421)

Course:Education

Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers

Exam Year:2013

TIME : 2 HOURS

Instructions:
Answer any three questions
Question One
With clear illustrations discuss Searle’s five categories of illocutionary acts.
(15mks)
Discuss five features of spoken language.
(5mks)

Question Two
Discuss how the following principles of discourse analysis aid in the role of context in analyzing an utterance.
Principle of local interpretation.
(5mks)
Principle of analogy.
(5mks)
The cooperative principle.
(5mks)
What do you understand by the term pragmatics?
(5mks)

Question Three
What is your understanding of "context of situation" in discourse analysis?
(5mks)
Discuss six features of context as specified by hymes (1964) (12mks)
Identify three co-ordinates from which the truth of a sentence can be judged.
(3mks)

Question Four
Define the term "Discourse analysis".
(4mks)
Discuss the following aspects of contextual description which are required in the analysis of discourse.
(16mks)
Reference
Presupposition
Implicature
Inference

Question Five
Define the term ’text’ in discourse analysis.
(5mks)
Discuss the notion of cohesion and its different manifestations in understanding ’text’ in discourse analysis.
(15mks)

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