This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is NOT a technique used for cohesion? A) Adjectives. B) Conjunctions. C) Pronouns. D) Determiners. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjectives. 2. A linguistic interaction is necessarily ..... A) An internal interaction. B) A psychological interaction. C) An external interaction. D) A social interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A social interaction. 3. ..... are those kinds of speech acts that speakers use to get someone else to do something. A) Commissives. B) Representatives. C) Directives. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Directives. 4. "REGIONAL AND DISTRICT ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD NEXT YEAR" THE ABOVE STATEMENT BELONGS TO THE ACT ..... A) ASSERTIVE. B) EXECUTIVE. C) DECLARATIVE. D) COMMITMENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ASSERTIVE. 5. What type of presupposition do we find in 'They missed the bus again'? A) Counter-factual presupposition. B) Lexical presupposition. C) Non-factive presupposition. D) Structural presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lexical presupposition. 6. "I think you should start studying for BSL today"The sentence above is an example for ..... A) Negative Face Threatening Act. B) Positive Face Saving Act. C) Negative Face Saving Act. D) Positive Face Threatening Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative Face Saving Act. 7. Do not say too little or too much A) Maxim of manner. B) Maxim of quality. C) Maxim of relevance. D) Maxim of quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maxim of quantity. 8. 'Do you have to stand in front of the TV?' A) Speech act. B) Question. C) Direct speech act. D) Indirect speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indirect speech act. 9. The boy is handsome. Which is the presupposition here? A) Structural presupposition. B) Factive presupposition. C) Lexical presupposition. D) Existential presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Existential presupposition. 10. Define Borrowings A) Borrow items from other person. B) Words imported from one language into another. C) Using words briefly in one language and going back to original word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words imported from one language into another. 11. The understanding of a text is incomplete with the absence of ..... A) Context. B) Invisible meaning. C) Deixis. D) Literal meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Context. 12. Speech Act:'Congratulations!' A) Expressive. B) Commissive. C) Directive. D) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expressive. 13. The quantity assumption is about: A) Giving enough information but not too much. B) Giving too much information. C) Giving too little information. D) Not giving information at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Giving enough information but not too much. 14. The basic pattern ( Conversation Structure) is: A) I speak-you silent. B) I speak-they speak-you speak. C) I speak-You speak-I speak. D) You speak-I listen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I speak-You speak-I speak. 15. 'When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first.' A) Anaphora. B) Conversational implicature. C) Reinforcement. D) Zero anaphora or ellipsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conversational implicature. 16. Which of the following is not a type of felicity condition? A) Speech act condition. B) Preparatory condition. C) Essencial condition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech act condition. 17. The utterance "Mr. John's youngest daughter is OK" presupposes: A) Mr. John has two daughters. B) Mr. John has at least 3 daughters. C) Mr. John has one daughter. D) Mr. John's other daughters are not beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr. John has at least 3 daughters. 18. An utterance considered an action is a/an: A) Perlocutionary act. B) Locutionary act. C) Illocutionary act. D) Speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speech act. 19. When the relationship between structure and function is indirect, it is called an ..... speech act. A) Straightforward. B) Specific. C) Indirect. D) Direct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indirect. 20. Which of the following is NOT an example of a typical discourse structure? A) Narrative. B) List. C) Question-answer. D) Narratee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narratee. 21. That's a great album isn't it? A) Conversational maxims. B) Person deixis. C) Face threateneing act. D) Positive politeness strategy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive politeness strategy. 22. "I assure you that I am still in and with a job" BELONGS TO THE ACT A) DECLARATIVE. B) EXECUTIVE. C) COMPROMISIVO. D) STATEMENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) COMPROMISIVO. 23. How many parts do the Preference structures have? A) 4. B) 3. C) 2. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 24. "There are tigers in the kitchen" is which sentence type (structure)? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Imperative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declarative. 25. Structural ambiguity occurs when A) The source of ambiguity is syntactic. B) The source of ambiguity is stylistic. C) The source of ambiguity is pragmatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The source of ambiguity is syntactic. 26. " A man was looking at us. He then disappeared"the initial reference is often indefinite ( A man ..... )The initial reference indefinite ( A MAN ..... ) is called ..... A) Antecedent. B) Context. C) Co-text. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antecedent. 27. You don't need this to make an IMPLICATURE A) Exact meaning. B) Conclusion. C) Additional information. D) Need inferences. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exact meaning. 28. The term utterance interpretation which focuses on receiver of message .. A) Is not favored by those who take a broadly cognitive approach. B) Ignores social constrains on utterance production. C) Is a form of social view. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ignores social constrains on utterance production. 29. "Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believe is true" is: A) Maxim of quantity. B) Maxim of quality. C) Maxim of relevance. D) Maxim of manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maxim of quality. 30. "Move out of the way!" -What kind of structural forms of direct speech acts? A) Declarative. B) Imperative. C) Statement. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imperative. 31. Fill the blank: ..... is where words are omitted because the context makes it clear what is meant. A) Adverbials. B) Ellipsis. C) Cataphora. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellipsis. 32. When we mention it ( A, B or C ) the IFID is clear A) Direct speech. B) Perlocutionary. C) Performative verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Performative verb. 33. ..... speech acts that state what the speaker believes to be the case or not. A) Directives. B) Commissives. C) Expressives. D) Representatives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Representatives. 34. "Open the window" is which sentence type (structure)? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Imperative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imperative. 35. The third level of meaning is ..... concerns with speaker's intention. A) Diectic expression. B) Meaning in in use. C) Force of utterance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Force of utterance. 36. Which construction in English is a clear example of structural presupposition? A) Compound/Complex Sentence. B) Subject-Verb Agreement. C) Conditional structure. D) WH-Questions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) WH-Questions. 37. What is the inference? A) The inferences made by the persons and create a new idioms. B) The inferences made by teach many words. C) The inferences made by listeners or readers in order to arrive at an interpretation of the intended meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The inferences made by listeners or readers in order to arrive at an interpretation of the intended meaning. 38. Selecting the appropriate speech act strategies and the linguistic forms for realizing it depends on A) The social status and the culture of the interlocutors. B) Their age. C) Their social distance. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 39. Classify the hedge:'As you probably know, I am terrified with bugs.' A) Relation hedge. B) Quality hedge. C) Manner hedge. D) Quantity hedge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relation hedge. 40. Pragmatics is the study of the choices you make when you use ....., the reasons for those choices and the effects that those choices convey (David Crystal 2014). A) Choices. B) Structure. C) A word. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Language. 41. How might synonyms be a useful feature in discourse? A) They can help to avoid repetition. B) They refer back to an earlier point. C) They help to orientate the reader. D) They omit words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They can help to avoid repetition. 42. "Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has been said before" is: A) Maxim of quantity. B) Maxim of relevance. C) Maxim of quality. D) Maxim of manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maxim of relevance. 43. A perlocution is ..... A) The effect on a hearer. B) The communicative intention. C) The linguistic form. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The effect on a hearer. 44. Complete The next Phrase:PRAGMATICS IS ..... A) The study of speaker meaning. B) The study of the words. C) The study of the Language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The study of speaker meaning. 45. A judge says to a happy couple, "I now pronounce you husband and wife.name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Declaration. B) Expressive. C) Representative. D) Commisive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declaration. 46. What is the cooperative principle? A) The idea that there are correct ways to communicate. B) The incorrect ways to communicate. C) The general principle that people work together to communicate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The general principle that people work together to communicate. 47. LEXIS REVISION:which word class do 'under', 'behind' and 'before' belong to? A) Determiners. B) Prepositions. C) Conjunctions. D) Pronouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prepositions. 48. According to the Maxim of Quality ..... A) You should only say only what you believe to be true. B) You should be sincere and unambiguous. C) You should say enough, but not too much. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You should only say only what you believe to be true. 49. How many types of felicity conditions? A) 3. B) 2. C) 1. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 50. A:It's awfully cold in here B:oh, sorry, I'll close the windowWhich pair of adjacent pairs does the above example belong to? A) Question $\rightarrow$ answer. B) Complaint $\rightarrow$ excuse/remedy. C) Inform $\rightarrow$ Acknowledge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complaint $\rightarrow$ excuse/remedy. 51. Words belong to CONVENTIONAL IMPLICATURE ..... A) Still. B) Even though. C) But. D) Although. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) But. 52. '' A was was looking at us. He then disappeared"the subquent reference is definite or pronoun (he..)it is called ..... A) Antecedent. B) Idea. C) Anaphora. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 53. In a direct speech act, the interrogative sentence type functions as: A) Statement. B) Question. C) Order or request. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Question. 54. Both speaker trying to speak at the same time, it called: A) Floor. B) Turn. C) Overlaps. D) Pause. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overlaps. 55. The effect of an utterance on an interlocutor; the listener's reaction to the utterance: A) Locutionary act. B) Illocutionary act. C) Perlocutionary act. D) Speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perlocutionary act. 56. Him, them, those are example of? A) Deixis. B) Physical context. C) Spatial deixis. D) Person deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Person deixis. 57. A stretch of speech preceded and followed by silence or a change of speaker is called A) A sentence. B) An utterance. C) Discourse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An utterance. 58. GENERALIZED CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE does not need ..... A) Fact. B) Background knowledge. C) Meaning. D) Special expertise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Background knowledge. 59. CHOOSE THE CORRECT PERFORMATIVE.. A) OPEN THE DOOR. B) Implicit performative. C) Explicit performative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Explicit performative. 60. A. Can I borrow your Shakespeare?b.Yeah, it 's over there on the table.the infered reference " Shakespeare" would be ..... A) Person. B) Book. C) Place. D) A writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Book. Next →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 2Pragmatics Quiz 3Pragmatics Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books