Mid Term Questions of Previous Years

Introduction to Linguistics II, Mid-Term, 1.12.2006

1) What is the significance of learning “Discourse Analysis” and “Pragmatics” in our Department? How do you think you can make use of this perspective in your prospective classes? Answer this question by considering other courses that you’ve taken and you still are.(30 p)

2) How can you prove that language is not a system but action? Explain this fact by giving real examples from your own life. (30 p)

3) Analyze the following dialogue according to “Gricean Maxims”, “The Script Theory” and Sinclair and Coulthard’s theory on “Discourse of a Class”. (40 p)


T: Any questions? Do you understand everything?
Ss: Š (no one responds)
T: Okay, how many people were speaking?
Ss: Š (no response)
T: How many people were speaking?
Ss: Š (no response)
T: There were two. Two people. Were they friends or strangers?
Ss: Š (no response)Š

The Speech Events and the Script Theory

Hi Everyone,

This week we studied "Speech Events", the "Script Theory" and the "Moves". Here's your homework:
Specify a Speech Event and write the script for it.

Remember the "Script of a Ramadan Visit"
Greeting (high pitch)
Welcoming (high pitch)
Seating (high pitch)
Greeting (higher pitch)
Opening (money, children)
Topic Introduction (the silliest topics, laughs)
Topic Extension (insincere, positive)
Serving and Eating
Topic Change (positive:old bayrams) (higher pitch)
Agreeing
Topic Variation (positive: business, children) (higher pitch)
Agreeing
Compliment (highest pitch)
Acknowledge (agree, deny, redirect focus)/acceptance/downgrade the compliment
Preclosing
Closing

However, NO TWO students can work on the SAME speech event, I mean everyone should find a genuine example of a speech event.

Good Luck,

Tuncer Can

Speech Act Theory

Hi All,

This week we studied the "Speech Act Theory". This week's homework consists of three parts.
1. Visit this webpage and do the exercise:
http://www.ugr.es/~inped/module10/hot_mod10/quiz1_1.htm
2. Find examples (sentences) for the following "Speech Acts" from TV Serials, Theatre Plays, Signs etc. (You might not find examples for each one, nevertheless think beyond sentence.)

Constatives: affirming, alleging, announcing, answering, attributing, claiming, classifying, concurring, confirming, conjecturing, denying, disagreeing, disclosing, disputing, identifying, informing, insisting, predicting, ranking, reporting, stating, stipulating
Directives: asking, begging, challenging, commanding, daring, inviting, insist, request. advising, admonishing, asking, begging, dismissing, excusing, forbidding, instructing, ordering, permitting, requesting, requiring, suggesting, urging, warning
Commissives: guaranteeing, pledging, promising, swearing, vowing, undertaking, warranting, agreeing, guaranteeing, inviting, offering, promising, swearing, volunteering
Acknowledgments: apologizing, condoling, congratulating, greeting, thanking, accepting (acknowledging an acknowledgment)
Representatives: affirm, believe, conclude, deny, report
Expressives: apologize, appreciate, congratulate, deplore, detest, regret, thank, welcome.
Declarations: I now pronounce you man and wife, I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you be dead, I name this ship...

3. Answer the following question? What kind of a Speech Act is this homework's text? (What do I want/intend to achieve by putting all this language together?)

"I wish you and your family a very good holiday." (specify the speech act in this sentence)

Tuncer Can

The Art of Language or The Language of Art, and Discourse

Hi All,
This week we studied "Discourse Analysis". Here's your homework: You have 2 weeks to complete your assignment.

1. Visit an art museum (Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Pera Art Museum, etc.)

2. Tell us which exhibition you visited. Analyze the artists' language. Try to explain how the artists are expressing the meaning without using a verbal or non-verbal language. Are they any successful and how they succeed to express the meanings they have in their mind? Exemplify by artists' and their works' names.

3. Post your comments to our blogger.

İstanbul Modern Art Museum (free-admission on Thursdays) (in Tophane)http://www.istanbulmodern.org/tr/f_index.html

Sakıp Sabancı Art Museum (in Emirgan)
http://muze.sabanciuniv.edu/

Pera Art Museum (in Taksim)
http://www.peramuzesi.org.tr/

Good Luck,

tuncer can

Write A Review

Hi All,

Please write a review so that next year students can read and know what to expect from this class.

Thank You,

Tuncer Can

Questions and Answers

Hi All,

Could you please write the questions and answers for your keywords of your Linguist or Field of Study into the comments section so that I can give you some feedback and your friends can train our Cyber Linguist. Your Linguist or Field of Study must be online by 4th January 2008 the latest.

Thanks,

Tuncer Can

Keywords you specified from your Linguist or Field of Study

Hi All,

Could you please write the keywords you specified from your Linguist or Field of Study into the comments section so that I can give you some feedback.

Thanks,

Tuncer Can

Speech Act Theory

Hi All,

This week we studied the "Speech Act Theory".This week's homework consists of three parts.

1. Visit this webpage and do the exercise:
http://www.ugr.es/~inped/module10/hot_mod10/quiz1_1.htm

2. Find examples (sentences) for the following "Speech Acts" from TV Serials, Theatre Plays, Signs etc. (You might not find examples for each one, nevertheless think beyond sentence.)

Constatives: affirming, alleging, announcing, answering, attributing, claiming, classifying, concurring, confirming, conjecturing, denying, disagreeing, disclosing, disputing, identifying, informing, insisting, predicting, ranking, reporting, stating, stipulating

Directives: asking, begging, challenging, commanding, daring, inviting, insist, request. advising, admonishing, asking, begging, dismissing, excusing, forbidding, instructing, ordering, permitting, requesting, requiring, suggesting, urging, warning

Commissives: guaranteeing, pledging, promising, swearing, vowing, undertaking, warranting, agreeing, guaranteeing, inviting, offering, promising, swearing, volunteering

Acknowledgments: apologizing, condoling, congratulating, greeting, thanking, accepting (acknowledging an acknowledgment)

Representatives: affirm, believe, conclude, deny, report

Expressives: apologize, appreciate, congratulate, deplore, detest, regret, thank, welcome.

Declarations: I now pronounce you man and wife, I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you be dead, I name this ship...

3. Answer the following question? What kind of a Speech Act is this homework's text? (What do I want/intend to achieve by putting all this language together?)

"I wish you and your family a very good holiday." (specify the speech act in this sentence)

Tuncer Can

Selection of your Workmate and Linguist

Hello Everybody,

1. For our "Cyber Linguist Project" (CLP), please choose your workmate and linguist, write them to the comment section.
2. With your workmate, Go to http://www.mycybertwin.com/ and open an account with the name of your linguist.

You have deadlines in your syllabus,

Tuncer Can

The Art of Language or the Language of Art

Hi All,

This week we studied "Discourse Analysis". Here's your homework: You have 2 weeks to complete your assignment.
1. Visit an art museum (Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Pera Art Museum, etc.)
2. Tell us which exhibition you visited. Analyze the artists' language. Try to explain how the artists are expressing the meaning without using a verbal or non-verbal language. Are they any successful and how they succeed to express the meanings they have in their mind? Exemplify by artists' and their works' names.
3. Post your comments to our blogger.

İstanbul Modern Art Museum (free-admission on Thursdays) (in Tophane)
http://www.istanbulmodern.org/tr/f_index.html

Sakıp Sabancı Art Museum (in Emirgan)
http://muze.sabanciuniv.edu/

Pera Art Museum (in Taksim)
http://www.peramuzesi.org.tr/

Good Luck,

tuncer can