Ch.26 Discourse Analysis Exam Prep Bourne

Chapter 26: Discourse analysis

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 1

1) Discourse Analysis takes which epistemological approach to understanding the study of knowledge?

a. Socio-constructionist

b. Positivist

c. Subjectivist

d. Essentialist

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 2

2) Discursive psychology focuses on how language produces

a. cognition.

b. action.

c. emotion.

d. affect.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 3

3) What does discursive psychology mean by an ‘interpretative repertoire’?

a. The way in which people manage attributions of stake within interactions

b. Tension that exists between two different ideological viewpoints

c. The context in which language is evoked

d. The everyday lines of argumentation that are commonly understood by others

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 4

4) Which of the following would be an appropriate research question to examine from a discursive psychological approach?

a. Why do people participate in political elections?

b. How do people talk about participating in political elections?

c. What are people’s attitudes towards participating in political elections?

d. What are people’s beliefs about participating in political elections?

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 5

5) What is a discursive device?

a. It is the role that context plays in understanding talk.

b. It is a set habitual line of argumentation.

c. It is a feature of text that allows language to serve a particular function.

d. It is how talk is variable about the same object.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 6

6) If people in talk use phrases like “everyone thinks…” or “most people consider…” then this would be an example of

a. Consensus Case Formulation.

b. Absolute Case Formulation.

c. Disclaimer.

d. Stakes.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 7

7) What is an ideological dilemma?

a. It is where people within interactions show doubt about what to believe.

b. It is a type of discursive device.

c. It is when people engage within interactions that contradict what the situation would dictate as conventional.

d. It is when people talk about an object from seemingly conflicting viewpoints.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 8

8) Which of the following is true about Foucauldian Discourse Analysis?

a. It examines how knowledge is constructed through systems of power.

b. It examines how certain discourses are dominant in society while other discourses are marginalized.

c. It examines how people’s experiences of living in their culture are shaped by the available discourses.

d. All of them

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 9

9) What is a stake?

a. It refers to the perception of people’s invested interest within an interaction.

b. It refers to when people become committed to a particular interpretative repertoire.

c. It’s a type of discursive device.

d. It’s a product of when people speak about something in a consistent way.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 Question 10

10) Which of the following is something that discursive psychologists do not focus on in their analysis?

a. Discursive devices

b. How discourse is influenced by systems of power

c. The variability in talking about an object

d. How people might manage attributions of stake