This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When we are committing face-saving act, we would tend to sound ..... to reduce the threats to someone's face. A) Polite. B) Shy. C) Rude. D) Condescending. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polite. 2. LEXIS REVISION:When making a noun into a plural, should you use an apostrophe? A) Always. B) Never. C) Only with initialisms, e.g. DVD's. D) Only when talking about decades, e.g. the 1980's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Never. 3. The manner assumption consists in: A) Criticizing people right from the get-go. B) Saying things in a less straightforward way to sound more diplomatic. C) Lying to people when something is not right. D) Being proper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saying things in a less straightforward way to sound more diplomatic. 4. "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 ..... A) Anaphora. B) Cataphora. C) Reference. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cataphora. 5. ..... is concerned with the truth-conditions of propositions expressed in sentences. A) Regularity. B) Syntax. C) Semantics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semantics. 6. The true meaning of implicature is ..... A) Tell the exact message. B) Additional information. C) Inference. D) Guessing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Additional information. 7. Fill the blank: ..... of time and place establish connections between one part of a text and another, and are frequent in narrative. A) Pronouns. B) Determiners. C) Adverbials. D) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adverbials. 8. 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. 9. Determine the type of speech act of the follwing statement:"Close the window, please!" A) Representative. B) Expressive. C) Directive. D) Declaration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Directive. 10. Words or phrases surrounding a word A) Schema. B) Deixis. C) Co-text. D) Conversational mazim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Co-text. 11. What is NOT a mitigating device? A) Would. B) Should. C) Please. D) Could. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Should. 12. Today, yesterday, tomorrow A) Temporal deixis. B) Deictic categories. C) Positive face needs. D) Negative face needs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temporal deixis. 13. Below are possible aspects that can be considered as contexts except ..... A) Weather. B) Place. C) Event. D) Pronouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pronouns. 14. 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. 15. 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. 16. Pointing to something in verbal communication is? A) Deixis. B) Context. C) Linguistic. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deixis. 17. 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. 18. 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!. 19. Below are examples of deixis, except ..... A) Him, his, he. B) This, that, those. C) Now, tomorrow, next year. D) Teacher, pen, house. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Teacher, pen, house. 20. 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) Directive. B) Expressive. C) Commissive. D) Representative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Directive. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 1Pragmatics Quiz 2Pragmatics Quiz 3Pragmatics Quiz 4Pragmatics Quiz 5Pragmatics Quiz 6Pragmatics Quiz 7Pragmatics Quiz 8Pragmatics Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books