Question 2
Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting answer for every blank.
Neil Gaiman on Writing about Different Countries and Cultures
There are lots of cultures that I haven’t worked with. One reason why I am always hesitant is [that] the last thing you want to become as an author is a [i] _____ cultural tourist. And you [ii] _____ don’t want to sort of feel like you’ve signed up to the Myth of the Month club, and there was definitely, while I was doing The Sandman,– a little bit in American Gods– that feeling that, [iii] _____, if I did it wrong, if I did it without respect, I could become some kind of a cultural tourist. [iv] _____, there are places where I would still love to go. If you go and see something, you will always come away with things that are brighter, sharper and stranger than you could have imagined. The kind of food that’s served, the kind of road signs, what the house roofs look like– it’s stuff that you [v] _____ wouldn’t imagine.
Transcribed from: “Neil Gaiman - Meet the Writers.” YouTube, uploaded by BNStudio, 12 Jul. 2011.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Fill in blank [ii] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.
Uh, no
Definitely
Well, yes
Right