Select the statement/s that are True (there may be more than one).Group of answer choicesDiscourse creates and shapes the social, cultural and political formations of societies.Discourse is integral and constitutive of social change.Discourse does not reflect social change.

Select the statement/s that are True (there may be more than one).Group of answer choicesAn essential part of the study of socio-political transformation is to research into discourse in contemporary China.Discourse is not used as a gauge of social change.Discourse has not become an essential resource for people to make sense of and interact with the world that they live in.

Which statement/s is/are congruent?Group of answer choicesDiscourse can be analysed anywhere along a continuum between linguistic-focused and sociocultural focused approaches.Discourse can be seen to spread between two poles, giving more-or-less emphasis to concrete texts or to institutional practices, to either particular cases of talk or to how social structures are formed by it.

Select the statement/s that are True (there may be more than one).Group of answer choicesThere is disagreement that social practice and economic conditions have impact on current discursive practice, political communication, and cultural behaviours.There is wide agreement that social practice and economic conditions have impact on current discursive practice, political communication, and cultural behaviours.

Which of the following approaches are suitable for discourse research?Group of answer choicesconversational analysissurveyhistorical discourse perspectivecritical discourse analysisgenre analysisrhetorical analysisnarrative theory

The use of contrasting statements in order to make a rhetorical point is known as ______________.Group of answer choicesinversionpersonificationantithesisalliterationhyperbole