Discourse and Key Terms Quiz

What is the term for words, phrases, or clauses that help to organize what we say or write?

• Discourse markers

• Disjuncts

• Narrative structures

• Adjuncts

Which term refers to non-essential elements of clauses that can be omitted?

• Anaphoric reference

• Discourse markers

• Adjuncts

• Disjuncts

What is the term for sentence adverbs that express an attitude or stance towards the material that follows?

• Discourse markers

• Adjuncts

• Disjuncts

• Cataphoric reference

How are events, actions, and processes sequenced when recounting a story?

• Exophoric reference

• Anaphoric reference

• Narrative structures

• Discourse markers

What is the term for making reference back to something previously identified in a text?

• Anaphoric reference

• Exophoric reference

• Cataphoric reference

• Interdiscursivity

Which term refers to making reference forwards to something as yet unidentified in a text?

• Anaphoric reference

• Cataphoric reference

• Exophoric reference

• Critical discourse analysis

What is the use of linguistic analysis to explore and challenge the ideologies, positions, and values of texts and their producers?

• Narrative structures

• Critical discourse analysis

• Interdiscursivity

• Discourse markers