EKSAMEN 2005 I
ENG 2152
Torsdag 2. juni 2005. 4 timer
Oppgaven består av 2 sider
Tillatte hjelpemidler: Engelsk-engelsk ordbok
ENG2152 Varieties of English Texts
Answer Part I, ONE question from Part II and ONE question from Part III.
Part I
(30 %)
1. Give brief accounts of any THREE of the following topics. Examples from English should
be provided wherever relevant.
a. politeness maxims
b. register
c. the poetic function of language
d. felicity conditions
e. knowledge schemata
f. type-token ratio
Part II
(35 %)
EITHER
2. Give an account of process-and-participant analysis. The attached excerpts from Graham
Greene’s novel Monsignor Quixote and from an article in Time magazine about Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger should be used for exemplification (complete analyses of these
texts are not required). One of the questions which should be addressed is to what extent
process-and-participant analysis can be used to compare the ways in which characters and
events are described in these two texts.
(Texts provided, nos. 1 and 2)
OR
3. Give an account of lexical cohesion in English. The attached excerpt from an article in
Time magazine about Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger should be used for
exemplification. Further examples may be added where appropriate.
(Text provided, no. 2)
Part III
(35 %)
EITHER
4. Give an account of Biber’s approach to the description and comparison of English text
types.
OR
5. Discuss some of the claims made by Norman Fairclough about ways in which language
may be used to exercise power. Illustrate with examples from English.
Text provided, no. 1
How Monsignor Quixote set off on his travels
It happened a week after the bishop’s letter had been delivered to Father Quixote that local
3 elections were held in the province of La Mancha and the Mayor of El Toboso suffered an
unexpected defeat. ‘The forces of the Right,’ he told Father Quixote, ‘have re-formed, they
seek another Generalissimo,’ and he spoke of certain intrigues of which he was very well
6 informed between the garagist, the butcher and the owner of the second-rate restaurant, who,
it seemed, wanted to enlarge his premises. Money, he said, had been lent to the landlord by a
mysterious stranger and as a result he had bought a new deep freeze. In some way which
9 Father Quixote was quite unable to fathom, this had seriously affected the election results.
‘I wash my hands of El Toboso,’ the ex-Mayor said.
‘And I am being driven away by the bishop,’ Father Quixote confided, and he told his
12 melancholy story.
‘I could have warned you. This comes of putting your trust in the Church.’
‘It is not a question of the Church but of a bishop. I have never cared for the bishop, may
15 God forgive me.’
(From Graham Greene, Monsignor Quixote)
Text provided, no. 2
The Reform Action Figure
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Up close, Arnold Schwarzenegger seems not quite real. His skin is waxworks smooth, his hair
untroubled by gray, his accent so often imitated that the real thing sounds like someone
goofing on Ahhnold. He speaks informally but we are not really having a conversation. The
Governor of California has his lines, and he recites them, just as he did onscreen, with a
knowing, ironic clumsiness. All of which tends to undercut his current message, which is
quite radical. After a year of trying to negotiate with his state legislature and succeeding less
than he had hoped, Schwarzenegger is going to war against the special interests—especially
the public employees’ unions—that dominate the Democratic majority in the statehouse. “You
see the protesters out there,” he said at a press conference in Fresno last week. “They are not
just people, teachers and nurses and so forth. They are organized special interests. They
follow me everywhere with their protests, and I think that works to our advantage, because the
people see what we’re fighting against.”
The protesters nip after Schwarzenegger because he has proposed four dramatic reforms that
may be voted on in a special election next fall if he can’t get action in the legislature.
(Adapted from Time magazine)