This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To try to deliver our intended messages successfully and smoothly in a coversation, we NEED ..... A) Implicature. B) Deixis. C) Cooperation. D) Pronoun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cooperation. 2. Individual contextual knowledge triggered by a word A) Implicature. B) Schema. C) Co-text. D) Maxim of quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Schema. 3. ..... is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and entities in the world; that is, how words literally connect to things. A) Semantics. B) Syntax. C) Pragmatics. D) Regularity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semantics. 4. Choose the answer if you preferred '' Isn't that really great?' A) I don't know. B) Sure. C) I'd love to. D) Yes, it is. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yes, it is. 5. "Stand up and leave the room now"The sentence above is an example for ..... A) Positive Face Saving Act. B) Positive Face Threatening Act. C) Negative Face Saving Act. D) Negative Face Threatening Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Face Threatening Act. 6. PERU WILL ENTER A NEW STAGE OF RESTRICTIONS TO AVOID MORE CONTAGES. The speech act is: A) Declarative. B) Executive. C) Representative. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Representative. 7. " ..... is the assumption of the speaker to claim that an entity does exist" A) Factive presupposition. B) Existential presupposition. C) Counterfactual presupposition. D) Structural presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Existential presupposition. 8. A. Where is the cheese sandwich sitting?b.He's over there by the window.The infered referent would be ..... A) Thing. B) Person. C) Place. D) Writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Person. 9. ..... means that what is said or written will make sense in terms of their "normal experience" of things. A) Coherence. B) Discourse analysis. C) Background knowledge. D) Schemata. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coherence. 10. Linguistic context is also called A) Context. B) Speaker. C) Linguistic. D) Co-text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Co-text. 11. Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation is called A) Linguistic context. B) Situational context. C) Speech event. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linguistic context. 12. Pragmatics is NOT concerned with: A) The use of language in social contexts. B) The relations between signs and the referents. C) He choice of language in social interaction andthe effect of this choice on others. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relations between signs and the referents. 13. One friend says to another, "I swear I won't see Martha again." name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Directive. B) Declarative. C) Expressive. D) Commisive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commisive. 14. According to Grice (1975), any conversational contribution must fullfill the cooperative principle, which includes 'being relevant' as its maxim of ..... A) Quantity. B) Quality. C) Relation. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relation. 15. According to Leech (1983), Semantics and Pragmatics ..... A) Oppose. B) Complement. C) Interfere. D) Presuppose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complement. 16. Classify this type of politeness strategy when the speaker is making a request: "Get out of here! I'm trying to study" . A) Negative politeness. B) Positive politeness. C) Bald on record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bald on record. 17. 'We will not do it again.' A) Commissive. B) Declarative. C) Directive. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commissive. 18. Which is not true about the negative face in the following? A) The need to be independent. B) The need not to be imposed on by others. C) The need to be accepted. D) The need to have freedom of action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The need to be accepted. 19. In many ways, pragmatics is the study of A) "invisible" meaning. B) Pragmatics. C) Deixis. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "invisible" meaning. 20. Contextual meaning is also known as A) Abstract meaning. B) Force of utterance. C) Utterance meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Utterance meaning. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 1Pragmatics Quiz 2Pragmatics Quiz 3Pragmatics Quiz 4Pragmatics Quiz 6Pragmatics Quiz 7Pragmatics Quiz 8Pragmatics Quiz 9Pragmatics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books