This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 4 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The true meaning of implicature is ..... A) Additional information. B) Tell the exact message. C) Inference. D) Guessing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Additional information. 2. Fill the blank: ..... of time and place establish connections between one part of a text and another, and are frequent in narrative. A) Adverbials. B) Determiners. C) Pronouns. D) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adverbials. 3. When the communicators share the same assumption, knowledge, and expectation, they are said to have established ..... A) Deixis. B) Reference. C) Context. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context. 4. Determine the type of speech act of the follwing statement:"Close the window, please!" A) Declaration. B) Directive. C) Expressive. D) Representative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directive. 5. Words or phrases surrounding a word A) Deixis. B) Co-text. C) Schema. D) Conversational mazim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Co-text. 6. What is NOT a mitigating device? A) Would. B) Should. C) Please. D) Could. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Should. 7. Today, yesterday, tomorrow A) Deictic categories. B) Positive face needs. C) Negative face needs. D) Temporal deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temporal deixis. 8. Below are possible aspects that can be considered as contexts except ..... A) Place. B) Event. C) Weather. D) Pronouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pronouns. 9. Choose the best option that is related to the term inference. A) Interpretation of the intended meaning. B) Evident meaning. C) Something that is explicit in the sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interpretation of the intended meaning. 10. Choose the correct answers about pragmatic: A) Studies how people make sense of each other linguistically. B) Studies how people learn the language. C) Studies how people write. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Studies how people make sense of each other linguistically. 11. Pointing to something in verbal communication is? A) Deixis. B) Pragmatics. C) Linguistic. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deixis. 12. What is the definition of pragmatics? A) The difference between what is said or written and what is actually meant. B) The difference between understanding and social convention. C) The true meaning of language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The difference between what is said or written and what is actually meant. 13. Which is not an example of a negative politeness strategy? A) Come with us, Jezza!. B) Could I give you a hand with that?. C) Would you mind lending me $ 8 please?. D) Sorry, I'm just going to squeeze behind you. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Come with us, Jezza!. 14. Below are examples of deixis, except ..... A) Teacher, pen, house. B) Now, tomorrow, next year. C) Him, his, he. D) This, that, those. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Teacher, pen, house. 15. For the following indirect speech acts of the utterance" I would appreciate it if you could do the dishes"Name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance . A) Representative. B) Commissive. C) Expressive. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Directive. 16. Be clear and avoid ambiguity A) Maxim of manner. B) Maxim of quantity. C) Maxim of relevance. D) Maxim of quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maxim of manner. 17. For the following indirect speech acts of the utterance"You're welcome to come to my party next week"name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance A) Commisive. B) Directive. C) Expressive. D) Representative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commisive. 18. People who are not considerate of ..... face would sound rude and impolite as they do not feel the need to be included. A) Positive. B) Assertive. C) Possessive. D) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive. 19. The set of words used to interpret the meaning of a specific words is? A) Location. B) Deixis. C) Co-text or linguistic context. D) Temporal deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Co-text or linguistic context. 20. ..... is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of those forms. A) Semantics. B) Pragmatics. C) Syntax. D) Regularity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pragmatics. 21. "When did you steal her money?The presupposition " You stole her money" is ..... A) Lexical presupposition. B) Counterfactual presupposition. C) Structural presupposition. D) Non-factive presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structural presupposition. 22. Classify this type of politeness strategy when the speaker is making a request: "Would you mind making lasagna tonight?" A) Positive politeness. B) Negative politeness. C) Bald on record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative politeness. 23. Define Etymology A) A core concept in studying semantic change. B) Changes in the sense of a word. C) Changes in word order. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A core concept in studying semantic change. 24. 'Cool before serving.' A) Ellipsis. B) Anaphora. C) Cataphora. D) Co-text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ellipsis. 25. Another word for Deixis is ..... A) Depictic. B) Deixation. C) Deixtal. D) Deictic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deictic. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 1Pragmatics Quiz 2Pragmatics Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books