What is a semantic preference?

A. A relationship between a word and a set of other words that form a semantic category.

B. A relationship between a word and a set of other words that do not form a semantic category.

C. A relationship between a word and other words that form a grammatical category.

D. A relationship between a word and a set of other words that do not form a grammatical category.

Which of these is an example of semantic preference?

A. He-verb

B. DRINKABLE LIQUIDS-PRECIOUS STONES

C. corpus-linguistics

D. glass of-DRINKABLE LIQUIDS

What is discourse prosody?

A. Collocations that reveal speaker socio-economic status.

B. The way that words in a corpus can collocate with a related set of words or phrases, often revealing (hidden) attitudes.

C. Intonation patterns in speech.

D. These two words do not go together.

Which of these is an example of discourse prosody?

A. New-York

B. happen-PRECIOUS STONES

C. happen-UNPLEASANT THINGS

D. hair-LENGTH

What is the keyword method?

A. A method of identifying words that are statistically significantly more frequent in one corpus as compared with another corpus.

B. A method of identifying words that speakers find important in a corpus.

C. A method of identifying words that are ?key? for a particular corpus.

D. A statistical procedure which identifies words which co-occur with other words.

What is a lock word?

A. A type of a keyword.

B. A word that has pretty much the same frequency over time.

C. A word that steadily becomes more frequent.

D. A word that steadily becomes less frequent.

Which of these is NOT a stage in corpus compilation as defined by Kennedy (1998: 70-85)?

A. Corpus publication.

B. Obtaining permissions.

C. Planning a storage system and keeping records.

D. Corpus design

How large should a corpus be?

A. At least 100 million words.

B. 50 million words as a rule of thumb.

C. This depends on the resources we have available because building corpora is very expensive.

D. This depends on a number of factors such as the genres we want to analyse and the frequency of the features we want to look at.

Which is the preferable option for storing a corpus?

A. Storing all data as one large file.

B. Storing allas two large files.

C. Storing each text as a separate file.

D. Storing each paragraph as a separate file.

23. Which type of markup is compulsory for every corpus?

A. XML headers.

B. Part-of-speech tags.

C. Error tagging.

D. None.

What were the findings of the research about the effect of the Paralympics on the British newspaper discourse?

A. The Paralympics had a negative effect because they promoted dispreferred naming strategies referring to people with disabilities.

B. The Paralympics had a positive effect because they promoted preferred naming strategies and supressed dispreferred ones.

C. The Paralympics had no effect on the media discourse.

D. The Paralympics had a short-term positive effect because they promoted preferred naming strategies around the time when they were held in London.

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