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GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE IN ENGLISH

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ROCÍO REBOREDO BLANCO ANTÍA REY GARCÍA

QUESTION 1 OUT OF 8

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

False

True

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QUESTION 2 OUT OF 8

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.”

Prehistoric hunter gatherers

DNA analysis

Fox

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QUESTION 3 OUT OF 8

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

Deixis

Ellipsis

Repetition

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QUESTION 4 OUT OF 8

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

Fronted attributes

Subject

Both of them

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QUESTION 5 OUT OF 8

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

False

True

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QUESTION 6 OUT OF 8

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

True

False

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QUESTION 7 OUT OF 8

The example below is an instance of...

Deixis

Ellipsis

None of the above

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QUESTION 8 OUT OF 8

The example below is an instance of...

Co-class membership

Deixis

Repetition

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