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Pragmatics Quiz 3 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the correct meaning of the 'maxim of quality'
2. LEXIS REVISION:what sort of adjectives are 'biggest', 'smallest' and 'best'?
3. ..... can be applied to any instance of written or oral language, as well as non-verbal aspects of communication such as tone and gestures.
4. For the following indirect speech acts of utterance"It's obvious that Bill is going to be late for his interview"name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance
5. The earth is flat. It is a/an .....
6. Which of the following is NOT a correct maxim?
7. Look at the sentence and analyze which group you belong to " Mr. Bean is at the cinema"
8. A buyer says to a seller, "I agree with your terms"name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance .....
9. "SHE wanted to borrow some money." SHE is:
10. What conditions allows this expression to be appropriate?:'I sentence you six months to prison'.
11. ..... is a pre-existing knowledge structure involving event sequences.
12. What was Paul Grice's theory?
13. Location to influence our interpretation is?
14. The tendency to use negative politeness forms, emphasizing the hearer's right to freedom, can be seen as a .....
15. Sometimes, what we DON'T say is more important that what we DO say. This is known as .....
16. When there is a direct relationship between a structure and a function, it is called as a ..... speech act.
17. "Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither too little information nor too much" is:
18. Deixis refers to expressions which
19. A woman says to someone next to her at the grocery store, "It's going to be a very windy day." name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance .....
20. The two kinds of context are:
21. Can be defined as the right to speak, it called:
22. "find out, discover, know, realize, be aware of, regret, .." are often considered as indicators of .....
23. Which answer is not a semantic changes
24. The actual utterance and its literal meaning
25. ..... two speakers have in common, ..... language they'll need to use to identify familiar things.
26. Name the underlined part:'Let me just tell you this about her:she is a very efficient worker'.
27. The study of what speakers mean, or "speaker meaning, " is called
28. "Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity" is:
29. If we want to identify the sequence and order of pragmatics. What should we keep in mind?
30. What does 'discourse' refer to in the study of language?
31. The tendency to use positive politeness forms, emphasizing closeness between speaker and hearer, can be seen as a .....
32. ..... refers to words in our language that cannot be interpreted at all if we do not know the context, especially the physical context of the speaker.
33. The use of explicit linguistic devices to signal relations between sentences and parts of texts is known as .....
34. Linguistic forms like proper nouns, definite and definite noun phrase, and pronouns are called .....
35. How many types of the general function performed by speech acts
36. Demonstratives 'there', 'those'
37. Now, then, last week are examples of?
38. What is the semantic understanding of 'close the door'?
39. The idea of COOPERATION in a conversation means that .....
40. In a direct speech act, the declarative sentence type functions as:
41. Jane:'Did you visit Rome and Florence?'Bill:'I visited Florence.'
42. Guidelines for making a good conversation according to Grice
43. "Let's meet on MONDAY ." MONDAY is:
44. When making a conversation, sometimes DEGREE OF CERTAINTY is included, why?
45. Jack:What was his reason for leaving? Kate:I don't know, probably something has happened to him.What type of presupposition is included in the first utterance?
46. A teenage boy says to another teenage boy, "Go ahead-Make me!" name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance .....
47. Here, there, near are examples of?
48. "May you find your own Frederick Wentworth. "The sentence above is an example of ..... p/s:Frederick Wentworth is a character in the novel Persuasion by Jane Austen.
49. How many types of background knowledge?
50. ....., in an interaction, can then be defined as the means employed to show awareness of another person's face.
51. Which is an example of negative politeness strategies?
52. What is the illocution of the following statement?"Kids, the classroom is a mess!"
53. The ideational function of the language implies .....
54. A parent says to her child, "I forbid you to leave your room." name the implicit speech act of the utterance.
55. What studies Pragmatics?
56. When we are committing face-saving act, we would tend to sound ..... to reduce the threats to someone's face.
57. LEXIS REVISION:When making a noun into a plural, should you use an apostrophe?
58. The manner assumption consists in:
59. "She is the epitome of sadness. Her eyes glimpse in sorrow. Jane is the definition of loneliness. "The structure of the sentence above is an example of .....
60. ..... is concerned with the truth-conditions of propositions expressed in sentences.
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