This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is NOT an example of a typical discourse structure? A) Narratee. B) List. C) Narrative. D) Question-answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narratee. 2. That's a great album isn't it? A) Face threateneing act. B) Person deixis. C) Conversational maxims. D) Positive politeness strategy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive politeness strategy. 3. "I assure you that I am still in and with a job" BELONGS TO THE ACT A) DECLARATIVE. B) COMPROMISIVO. C) EXECUTIVE. D) STATEMENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) COMPROMISIVO. 4. How many parts do the Preference structures have? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 5. "There are tigers in the kitchen" is which sentence type (structure)? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Imperative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declarative. 6. Structural ambiguity occurs when A) The source of ambiguity is syntactic. B) The source of ambiguity is stylistic. C) The source of ambiguity is pragmatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The source of ambiguity is syntactic. 7. " A man was looking at us. He then disappeared"the initial reference is often indefinite ( A man ..... )The initial reference indefinite ( A MAN ..... ) is called ..... A) Antecedent. B) Anaphora. C) Context. D) Co-text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antecedent. 8. You don't need this to make an IMPLICATURE A) Additional information. B) Exact meaning. C) Need inferences. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exact meaning. 9. The term utterance interpretation which focuses on receiver of message .. A) Is not favored by those who take a broadly cognitive approach. B) Ignores social constrains on utterance production. C) Is a form of social view. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ignores social constrains on utterance production. 10. "Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believe is true" is: A) Maxim of quality. B) Maxim of quantity. C) Maxim of relevance. D) Maxim of manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maxim of quality. 11. "Move out of the way!" -What kind of structural forms of direct speech acts? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Imperative. D) Statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imperative. 12. Fill the blank: ..... is where words are omitted because the context makes it clear what is meant. A) Adverbials. B) Anaphora. C) Cataphora. D) Ellipsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ellipsis. 13. When we mention it ( A, B or C ) the IFID is clear A) Direct speech. B) Perlocutionary. C) Performative verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Performative verb. 14. ..... speech acts that state what the speaker believes to be the case or not. A) Expressives. B) Representatives. C) Directives. D) Commissives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Representatives. 15. "Open the window" is which sentence type (structure)? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Imperative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imperative. 16. The third level of meaning is ..... concerns with speaker's intention. A) Diectic expression. B) Meaning in in use. C) Force of utterance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Force of utterance. 17. Which construction in English is a clear example of structural presupposition? A) WH-Questions. B) Subject-Verb Agreement. C) Compound/Complex Sentence. D) Conditional structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) WH-Questions. 18. What is the inference? A) The inferences made by the persons and create a new idioms. B) The inferences made by teach many words. C) The inferences made by listeners or readers in order to arrive at an interpretation of the intended meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The inferences made by listeners or readers in order to arrive at an interpretation of the intended meaning. 19. Selecting the appropriate speech act strategies and the linguistic forms for realizing it depends on A) The social status and the culture of the interlocutors. B) Their age. C) Their social distance. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 20. Classify the hedge:'As you probably know, I am terrified with bugs.' A) Quantity hedge. B) Relation hedge. C) Manner hedge. D) Quality hedge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relation hedge. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 1Pragmatics Quiz 3Pragmatics Quiz 4Pragmatics Quiz 5Pragmatics Quiz 6Pragmatics Quiz 7Pragmatics Quiz 8Pragmatics Quiz 9Pragmatics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books