Pragmatics Quiz 1 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Which of the following is NOT a technique used for cohesion?

Correct Answer: B) Adjectives.

2. A linguistic interaction is necessarily .....

Correct Answer: A) A social interaction.

3. ..... are those kinds of speech acts that speakers use to get someone else to do something.

Correct Answer: C) Directives.

4. "REGIONAL AND DISTRICT ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD NEXT YEAR" THE ABOVE STATEMENT BELONGS TO THE ACT .....

Correct Answer: A) ASSERTIVE.

5. What type of presupposition do we find in 'They missed the bus again'?

Correct Answer: C) Lexical presupposition.

6. "I think you should start studying for BSL today"The sentence above is an example for .....

Correct Answer: C) Negative Face Saving Act.

7. Do not say too little or too much

Correct Answer: A) Maxim of quantity.

8. 'Do you have to stand in front of the TV?'

Correct Answer: B) Indirect speech act.

9. The boy is handsome. Which is the presupposition here?

Correct Answer: C) Existential presupposition.

10. Define Borrowings

Correct Answer: B) Words imported from one language into another.

11. The understanding of a text is incomplete with the absence of .....

Correct Answer: B) Context.

12. Speech Act:'Congratulations!'

Correct Answer: D) Expressive.

13. The quantity assumption is about:

Correct Answer: A) Giving enough information but not too much.

14. The basic pattern ( Conversation Structure) is:

Correct Answer: B) I speak-You speak-I speak.

15. Maxims

Correct Answer: D) Principle guiding the conversational interactions of both speakers and hearers.

16. 'When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first.'

Correct Answer: D) Conversational implicature.

17. Which of the following is not a type of felicity condition?

Correct Answer: A) Speech act condition.

18. The utterance "Mr. John's youngest daughter is OK" presupposes:

Correct Answer: B) Mr. John has at least 3 daughters.

19. An utterance considered an action is a/an:

Correct Answer: D) Speech act.

20. When the relationship between structure and function is indirect, it is called an ..... speech act.

Correct Answer: B) Indirect.