A-level English Language: Discourse Structure

Discourse structure is the study of how a text is structured. Select only the elements of this structure

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and solution

• Collocations

• Dysphemism

• Narrative

What key term is this a definition for? The speaker will offer a conventional piece of speech and the receiver will reply accordingly

• False Starts

• Turn Taking

• Adjacency Pairs

• Question and Answer

What is the key term referred to here? The speaker starts to speak, stops and retries

• Repair

• Filler

• False Starts

• Cyclical structure

What is the different between an anaphoric and a cataphoric reference in a text?

Give examples of filler words used in discourse structure

Select all the examples of non-fluency features

• False starts

• Repair

• Problem and solution

• Question and answer

• Back-channeling

What is the difference between cohesion and coherence?

• Cohesion is the sense of unity in the interpretation of the text; Coherence are the ties that exist between an actual text written or spoken

• Cohesion are the ties that exist between an actual text written or spoken; Coherence is the sense of unity in the interpretation of the text

• Cohesion is the lack of non-fluency features in a text; Coherence the overall grammatical accuracy of the text

• Cohesion the overall grammatical accuracy of the text; Coherence is the lack of non-fluency features in a text

Select the different ways a speaker can indicate the completion point at the end of a turn?

• Asking a question

• Pausing at the end of a syntactic structure

• Referring to a previous point made

• Giving a non-verbal cue to the receiver

What is an insertion sequence?

• An filler that comes in between two parts of an adjacency pair

• An interruptive question

• A disruption to the adjacency pair choreography with a change in topic

• An adjacency pair that comes in between two parts of another adjacency pair

Which discourse maxim does this speaker need to be careful about? "I won't bore you with all the details, but it was not a pleasant experience."

• Maxim of Quality

• Maxim of Quantity

• Maxim of Relation

• Maxim of Manner