This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Classify this type of politeness strategy when the speaker is making a request: "Clean up this mess!." A) Negative politesness. B) Possitive politeness. C) Bald on record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bald on record. 2. ..... is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms, how they are arranged in sequence, and which sequences are well-formed. A) Semantics. B) Syntax. C) Regularity. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 3. The idea that people work together to communicate A) Cooperative principle. B) Deictic expression. C) Face threatening act. D) Embodied knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cooperative principle. 4. The propositional base of an utterance is its A) Subjective part. B) Objective part. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Objective part. 5. The social function of what is said or the intention of the speaker is: A) Locutionary act. B) Illocutionary act. C) Perlocutionary act. D) Speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illocutionary act. 6. What does Deixis need? A) Immediate physical context. B) A connection between words. C) A verb. D) Immediate Indexation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immediate physical context. 7. How to do a dispreferred second part about an apology? A) Oh. B) I'm not sure. C) What a pity. D) Well. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What a pity. 8. What are the types of Deixis? A) Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis. B) Connotative, Denotative Deixis. C) Simple, Complex, and Compound Deixis. D) Conversational and Speech Deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis. 9. In terms of regularity, what aspects are implicit in the Pragmatics? A) Social level and the meaning interpretation. B) Culture, chummy, and no chummy groups. C) Social level, chummy, and no chummy groups. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social level, chummy, and no chummy groups. 10. We can ..... our conversational implicature A) Cancel. B) Choose. C) Opt for. D) Modify. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cancel. 11. Pragmatics is NOT A) The study of contextual meaning. B) The study of the expression of relative distance. C) The study of listener meaning. D) The study of how more gets communicated than is said. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of listener meaning. 12. FOUR elements should be fulfilled when having a good conversation, EXCEPT ..... A) Quality of the content. B) Be informative as possible. C) Using idioms. D) Avoid ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using idioms. 13. Choose the correct answer. What are the types of Deixis to analyze sentences? A) Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis. B) Context, Situation place, Location. C) Spatial, Person, Analysis speech. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis. 14. Speech acts A) Principle guiding the conversational interactions of both speakers and hearers. B) Denote purely linguistic actions. C) Perform act by using language. D) Probably the opposite of direct speech acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perform act by using language. 15. "You are so annoying"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: B) Positive Face Threatening Act. 16. The term pragmatics was first introduced by the philosopher A) John Austin. B) Charles Morris. C) Paul Grice. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Austin. 17. 'I am not here now.' A) Anaphora. B) Cataphora. C) Deictic projection. D) Ellipsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deictic projection. 18. Actions performed via utterances are generally called ..... A) Speech acts. B) Felicity conditions. C) IFIDs. D) Speech event. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech acts. 19. Face refers to that ..... and social sense of self that everyone has and expects everyone else to recognize. A) Emotion. B) Intellectual. C) Emotional. D) Psychological. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotional. 20. "uh uh" "yeah" "mmm" provide feedback to the current speaker that the message is being received, these types of? A) Pause. B) Overlaps. C) Attributable. D) Backchannel signal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Backchannel signal. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 1Pragmatics Quiz 2Pragmatics Quiz 3Pragmatics Quiz 4Pragmatics Quiz 5Pragmatics Quiz 7Pragmatics Quiz 8Pragmatics Quiz 9Pragmatics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books