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ROCÍO REBOREDO BLANCO ANTÍA REY GARCÍA

TOPIC

GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE IN ENGLISH

True

False

'Anyway' is an example of disjunctive topic transition (lexical marker)

QUESTION 1 OUT OF 8

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DNA analysis

Prehistoric hunter gatherers

Fox

What would you consider to be the known topic of the following text? “They think the most likely explanation is that the fox was a highly valued companion or pet. DNA analysis shows the animal dined with prehistoric hunter gatherers and was part of the inner circle of the camp. A fox of the same species was found in a much older grave in another part of Argentina nearly a decade ago. It may also have been a pet but its diet was not analysed.”

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Repetition

Ellipsis

Deixis

Which of the following concepts is defined by Yang as “The use of a pro-term to refer to an already mentioned item”?

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Fronted attributes

Both of them

Subject

According to Downing, which of the following would be excluded from the category of 'topic'? ?

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False

True

Say whether the following statement is true or false: “Local topics are cognitive schemas that encapsulate what a whole text is about”.

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False

True

According to Pilar Alonso, at sentence level, "it is highly probable for a global topic to be in subject position"

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Deixis

None of the above

Ellipsis

The example below is an instance of...

QUESTION 7 OUT OF 8

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Co-class membership

Deixis

Repetition

The example below is an instance of...

QUESTION 8 OUT OF 8

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