This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Pragmatics is the study of the choices you make when you use ....., the reasons for those choices and the effects that those choices convey (David Crystal 2014). A) Choices. B) Language. C) A word. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language. 2. How might synonyms be a useful feature in discourse? A) They can help to avoid repetition. B) They refer back to an earlier point. C) They omit words. D) They help to orientate the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They can help to avoid repetition. 3. "Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has been said before" is: A) Maxim of quality. B) Maxim of quantity. C) Maxim of relevance. D) Maxim of manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maxim of relevance. 4. A perlocution is ..... A) The effect on a hearer. B) The communicative intention. C) The linguistic form. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The effect on a hearer. 5. Complete The next Phrase:PRAGMATICS IS ..... A) The study of speaker meaning. B) The study of the words. C) The study of the Language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The study of speaker meaning. 6. A judge says to a happy couple, "I now pronounce you husband and wife.name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Commisive. B) Representative. C) Declaration. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Declaration. 7. What is the cooperative principle? A) The idea that there are correct ways to communicate. B) The incorrect ways to communicate. C) The general principle that people work together to communicate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The general principle that people work together to communicate. 8. LEXIS REVISION:which word class do 'under', 'behind' and 'before' belong to? A) Determiners. B) Conjunctions. C) Prepositions. D) Pronouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prepositions. 9. According to the Maxim of Quality ..... A) You should only say only what you believe to be true. B) You should be sincere and unambiguous. C) You should say enough, but not too much. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You should only say only what you believe to be true. 10. How many types of felicity conditions? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 11. A:It's awfully cold in here B:oh, sorry, I'll close the windowWhich pair of adjacent pairs does the above example belong to? A) Question $\rightarrow$ answer. B) Complaint $\rightarrow$ excuse/remedy. C) Inform $\rightarrow$ Acknowledge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complaint $\rightarrow$ excuse/remedy. 12. Words belong to CONVENTIONAL IMPLICATURE ..... A) But. B) Still. C) Even though. D) Although. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) But. 13. '' A was was looking at us. He then disappeared"the subquent reference is definite or pronoun (he..)it is called ..... A) Anaphora. B) Antecedent. C) Context. D) Idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 14. In a direct speech act, the interrogative sentence type functions as: A) Statement. B) Question. C) Order or request. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Question. 15. Both speaker trying to speak at the same time, it called: A) Overlaps. B) Pause. C) Turn. D) Floor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Overlaps. 16. The effect of an utterance on an interlocutor; the listener's reaction to the utterance: A) Locutionary act. B) Illocutionary act. C) Perlocutionary act. D) Speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perlocutionary act. 17. Him, them, those are example of? A) Person deixis. B) Deixis. C) Physical context. D) Spatial deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person deixis. 18. A stretch of speech preceded and followed by silence or a change of speaker is called A) A sentence. B) An utterance. C) Discourse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An utterance. 19. GENERALIZED CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE does not need ..... A) Meaning. B) Fact. C) Background knowledge. D) Special expertise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Background knowledge. 20. CHOOSE THE CORRECT PERFORMATIVE.. A) OPEN THE DOOR. B) Implicit performative. C) Explicit performative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Explicit performative. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 1Pragmatics Quiz 2Pragmatics Quiz 4Pragmatics Quiz 5Pragmatics Quiz 6Pragmatics Quiz 7Pragmatics Quiz 8Pragmatics Quiz 9Pragmatics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books