This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When you avoid ambiguity you are fulfilling Grice's maxim of ..... A) Manner. B) Relation. C) Quality. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Manner. 2. Which of the following is NOT a discourse feature we would expect to see in spontaneous conversations? A) Emoticons. B) Openings and closings. C) Topic loops. D) Topic shifts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emoticons. 3. Who coined the phrase 'synthetic personalisation'? A) Drew & Heritage. B) Cameron. C) Fairclough. D) Grice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fairclough. 4. The pragmatic component of an utterance is its A) Objective part. B) Subjective part. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subjective part. 5. What type of faces exist? A) Bad faces and good faces. B) Critical faces and Analytical faces. C) Positive faces and Negative faces. D) Right faces and Wrong faces. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive faces and Negative faces. 6. ..... is a research method for studying written or spoken language in relation to its social context. A) Discourse analysis. B) Cultural schemata. C) Cross-cultural pragmatics. D) Coherence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discourse analysis. 7. According to the preparatory condition ..... A) The hearer must be able to understand the locution. B) There must be prerequisites for a succesful act. C) The speaker must be sincere and willing to carry out the act. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There must be prerequisites for a succesful act. 8. Classify this type of politeness strategy when the speaker is making a request: "Hello friend, let me use your phone for a second." A) Negative politeness. B) Positive politeness. C) Bald on record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive politeness. 9. Which of the following options is not part of the three speech act? A) Illocutionary. B) Complaint. C) Perlocutionary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complaint. 10. Levels of meaning includes abstract meaning-which can also be defined as A) Speaker's intention. B) Communicative purpose. C) Dictionary meaning. D) Utterance meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dictionary meaning. 11. How many components does the speech events through? A) 3. B) 2. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 12. The expression which is used to maintain reference to something or someone already mentioned is called ..... A) Context. B) Discourse. C) Anaphoric reference. D) Co-text. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphoric reference. 13. " I am going to buy a present THERE ". THERE is: A) Spacial deixis. B) Person deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spacial deixis. 14. "I will join you THIS EVENING ". THIS EVENING is: A) Person deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Spacial deixis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal deixis. 15. In a direct speech act, the imperative functions as: A) Statement. B) Question. C) Order or request. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Order or request. 16. Classify this type of politeness strategy when the speaker is making a request: "Let's get out of here." A) Negative politeness. B) Positive politeness. C) Bald on record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive politeness. 17. Below are the four types of sentence functions, except ..... A) Command. B) Exclamative. C) Statement. D) Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exclamative. 18. WHAT SPEECH ACT IS PRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: "I assure you that I will be back early, mommy" A) EXECUTIVE. B) COMPROMISIVO. C) DECLARATIVE. D) STATEMENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) COMPROMISIVO. 19. To try to deliver our intended messages successfully and smoothly in a coversation, we NEED ..... A) Pronoun. B) Deixis. C) Cooperation. D) Implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cooperation. 20. Individual contextual knowledge triggered by a word A) Maxim of quality. B) Co-text. C) Implicature. D) Schema. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Schema. 21. ..... is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and entities in the world; that is, how words literally connect to things. A) Regularity. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantics. 22. Choose the answer if you preferred '' Isn't that really great?' A) Sure. B) Yes, it is. C) I don't know. D) I'd love to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes, it is. 23. "Stand up and leave the room now"The sentence above is an example for ..... A) Negative Face Threatening Act. B) Positive Face Saving Act. C) Positive Face Threatening Act. D) Negative Face Saving Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative Face Threatening Act. 24. PERU WILL ENTER A NEW STAGE OF RESTRICTIONS TO AVOID MORE CONTAGES. The speech act is: A) Representative. B) Expressive. C) Executive. D) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Representative. 25. " ..... is the assumption of the speaker to claim that an entity does exist" A) Factive presupposition. B) Existential presupposition. C) Structural presupposition. D) Counterfactual presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Existential presupposition. 26. A. Where is the cheese sandwich sitting?b.He's over there by the window.The infered referent would be ..... A) Place. B) Thing. C) Person. D) Writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person. 27. ..... means that what is said or written will make sense in terms of their "normal experience" of things. A) Coherence. B) Background knowledge. C) Discourse analysis. D) Schemata. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coherence. 28. Linguistic context is also called A) Context. B) Linguistic. C) Speaker. D) Co-text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Co-text. 29. Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation is called A) Linguistic context. B) Situational context. C) Speech event. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linguistic context. 30. Pragmatics is NOT concerned with: A) The use of language in social contexts. B) The relations between signs and the referents. C) He choice of language in social interaction andthe effect of this choice on others. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relations between signs and the referents. 31. One friend says to another, "I swear I won't see Martha again." name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Declarative. B) Directive. C) Expressive. D) Commisive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commisive. 32. According to Grice (1975), any conversational contribution must fullfill the cooperative principle, which includes 'being relevant' as its maxim of ..... A) Quality. B) Manner. C) Relation. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relation. 33. According to Leech (1983), Semantics and Pragmatics ..... A) Presuppose. B) Oppose. C) Complement. D) Interfere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complement. 34. Classify this type of politeness strategy when the speaker is making a request: "Get out of here! I'm trying to study" . A) Negative politeness. B) Positive politeness. C) Bald on record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bald on record. 35. 'We will not do it again.' A) Directive. B) Commissive. C) Expressive. D) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commissive. 36. Which is not true about the negative face in the following? A) The need to be independent. B) The need to have freedom of action. C) The need not to be imposed on by others. D) The need to be accepted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The need to be accepted. 37. In many ways, pragmatics is the study of A) Context. B) "invisible" meaning. C) Pragmatics. D) Deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "invisible" meaning. 38. Contextual meaning is also known as A) Abstract meaning. B) Force of utterance. C) Utterance meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Utterance meaning. 39. Classify this type of politeness strategy when the speaker is making a request: "Clean up this mess!." A) Negative politesness. B) Possitive politeness. C) Bald on record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bald on record. 40. ..... is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms, how they are arranged in sequence, and which sequences are well-formed. A) Syntax. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Regularity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 41. The idea that people work together to communicate A) Cooperative principle. B) Embodied knowledge. C) Deictic expression. D) Face threatening act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cooperative principle. 42. The propositional base of an utterance is its A) Subjective part. B) Objective part. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Objective part. 43. The social function of what is said or the intention of the speaker is: A) Speech act. B) Perlocutionary act. C) Illocutionary act. D) Locutionary act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Illocutionary act. 44. What does Deixis need? A) Immediate physical context. B) A connection between words. C) A verb. D) Immediate Indexation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immediate physical context. 45. How to do a dispreferred second part about an apology? A) What a pity. B) Well. C) I'm not sure. D) Oh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What a pity. 46. What are the types of Deixis? A) Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis. B) Connotative, Denotative Deixis. C) Simple, Complex, and Compound Deixis. D) Conversational and Speech Deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis. 47. In terms of regularity, what aspects are implicit in the Pragmatics? A) Social level and the meaning interpretation. B) Culture, chummy, and no chummy groups. C) Social level, chummy, and no chummy groups. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social level, chummy, and no chummy groups. 48. We can ..... our conversational implicature A) Cancel. B) Choose. C) Opt for. D) Modify. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cancel. 49. Pragmatics is NOT A) The study of how more gets communicated than is said. B) The study of listener meaning. C) The study of contextual meaning. D) The study of the expression of relative distance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of listener meaning. 50. FOUR elements should be fulfilled when having a good conversation, EXCEPT ..... A) Using idioms. B) Avoid ambiguity. C) Quality of the content. D) Be informative as possible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Using idioms. 51. Choose the correct answer. What are the types of Deixis to analyze sentences? A) Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis. B) Context, Situation place, Location. C) Spatial, Person, Analysis speech. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis. 52. "You are so annoying"The sentence above is an example for ..... A) Negative Face Threatening Act. B) Positive Face Threatening Act. C) Negative Face Saving Act. D) Positive Face Saving Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive Face Threatening Act. 53. The term pragmatics was first introduced by the philosopher A) John Austin. B) Charles Morris. C) Paul Grice. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Austin. 54. 'I am not here now.' A) Ellipsis. B) Deictic projection. C) Anaphora. D) Cataphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deictic projection. 55. Actions performed via utterances are generally called ..... A) Felicity conditions. B) Speech acts. C) Speech event. D) IFIDs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speech acts. 56. Face refers to that ..... and social sense of self that everyone has and expects everyone else to recognize. A) Psychological. B) Intellectual. C) Emotional. D) Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotional. 57. "uh uh" "yeah" "mmm" provide feedback to the current speaker that the message is being received, these types of? A) Attributable. B) Overlaps. C) Pause. D) Backchannel signal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Backchannel signal. 58. What is INFERENCE? A) The concept of producing utterances. B) The process of deriving implied meanings. C) The process of using deixis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process of deriving implied meanings. 59. "Do you have milk?" is which sentence type (structure)? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Imperative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interrogative. 60. Can you show what kind of speech event is an example below? John:Hey, Jim. How is it going? Jim:Hello, John. I'm good. And you? John:Pretty well. Thanks. A) Requesting help. B) Asking the time. C) Apologizing. D) Greetings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greetings. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 1Pragmatics Quiz 3Pragmatics Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books