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    UJIAN TENGAH SEMESTER

    FAKULTAS KEGURUAN ILMU PENDIDIKA

    UNIVERSITAS MUSLIM NUSANTARA ALWASHLIYAH

    Name : Siti Ramlah Siregar Subject : Discourse Analysis

    Class : 6A Lecturer : Dahlia Sirait, S.Pd, M.Hum

    QUESTIONS

    1. Can you describe and give the example the meaning discourse analysis and the use for
    the spoken and written?
    Answer: Discourse analysis is a research method for studying written or spoken language
    in relation to its social context. It aims to understand how language is used in real life
    situations.
    When we do discourse analysis, we might focus on:

     The purposes and effects of different types of language


     Cultural rules and conventions in communication
     How values, beliefs and assumptions are communicated
     How language use relates to its social, political and historical context

    Example discourse analysis the use for spoken: they can picturize as; speaking on the
    phone, conversation, interview, putting markers, turn taking, group of discussion, using
    advertisement, people interaction, joke, speech, also transferring information.

    Example discourse analysis the use for written: Written texts include stories, comic strips,
    instructions, recipes, PowerPoint presentations, emails, text messages on mobile phones,
    newsletters, posters, scripts for plays and performances, factual texts and explanations, or
    any other piece of written language.

    2. What is cohesion and co text and give the difference between both of them?
    Answer: Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical relationship between different elements
    of a text which hold it together. cotext refers to linguistic material in the surrounding text.
    Context refers to information outside of the text, available to a reader through
    understanding of genre, situation, and world knowledge.
    3. Analyze the text with cohesion and co text in the below?

    One afternoon there was a fox that was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of
    grapes hanging from over a lofty branch.

    “Just the thing to quench my thirst,” quoted the fox. Taking a few steps backward, the fox
    jumped but unfortunately he missed the hanging grapes. Again the fox took a few paces
    backward, ran, and tried to reach them but he still failed.

    Cohesion : Spotted = Looking at, Quench = satisfy, paces = step

    4. What do you mean information structure, types and give example?

    Answer: The term information structure refers to the interface between the structure and
    meaning of linguistic utterances, on the one hand, and the interlocutors’ mental
    representations of information, discourse referents, and the overall universe of discourse,
    on the other. The types of information structure are focus-background, topic-comment,
    and given-new. For example, a speaker might say The aardvark chased the squirrel, The
    squirrel was chased by the aardvark, or What was chased by the aardvark was the
    squirrel.

    5. Give the definition, characteristics, types about genre and speech act and make the
    example?

    Genre analysis is one of the types of discourse analysis. It is employed to analyze the
    genre of the text both oral text and written text. To analyze the genre, it focuses on the
    idea of texts in genre theorists which will be similar or different and depends on the
    classification between the genres. A speech act is an utterance that serves a function in
    communication. There are three types of acts in the speech acts, they are locutionary,
    illocutionary, and perlocutionary.

    Example:

    Greeting:   "Hi, Eula. How are things going?"


    Request:   "Could you pass me the mashed potatoes, please?"

    Complaint:   "I’ve already been waiting three weeks for the computer, and I was told it
    would be delivered within a week."

    Invitation:   "We’re having some people over Saturday evening and wanted to know if
    you’d like to join us."

    Compliment:   "Hey, I really like your tie!"

    Refusal:   "Oh, I’d love to see that movie with you but this Friday just isn’t going to
    work."

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