This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This, here, now A) Temporal deixis. B) Person deixis. C) Distal deixis. D) Proximal deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proximal deixis. 2. What is INFERENCE? A) The concept of producing utterances. B) The process of deriving implied meanings. C) The process of using deixis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process of deriving implied meanings. 3. "Do you have milk?" is which sentence type (structure)? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Imperative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interrogative. 4. Can you show what kind of speech event is an example below? John:Hey, Jim. How is it going? Jim:Hello, John. I'm good. And you? John:Pretty well. Thanks. A) Greetings. B) Asking the time. C) Requesting help. D) Apologizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greetings. 5. What is the correct meaning of the 'maxim of quality' A) Speaking the right amount. B) Keeping what is being said relevant. C) Speaking the truth. D) Being clear and not ambiguous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaking the truth. 6. LEXIS REVISION:what sort of adjectives are 'biggest', 'smallest' and 'best'? A) Stative. B) Dynamic. C) Comparatives. D) Superlatives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Superlatives. 7. ..... can be applied to any instance of written or oral language, as well as non-verbal aspects of communication such as tone and gestures. A) Coherence. B) Discourse analysis. C) Cultural schemata. D) Cross-cultural pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discourse analysis. 8. For the following indirect speech acts of utterance"It's obvious that Bill is going to be late for his interview"name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance A) Commisive. B) Declative. C) Representative. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Representative. 9. The earth is flat. It is a/an ..... A) Expressive speech act. B) Representative speech ac. C) Declaration speech act. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Representative speech ac. 10. Which of the following is NOT a correct maxim? A) Manner. B) Quality. C) Quantity. D) Order. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Order. 11. Look at the sentence and analyze which group you belong to " Mr. Bean is at the cinema" A) Semantic. B) References and Interference. C) Deixis. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) References and Interference. 12. A buyer says to a seller, "I agree with your terms"name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Declarative. B) Directive. C) Expressive. D) Commisive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commisive. 13. "SHE wanted to borrow some money." SHE is: A) Person deixis. B) Spacial deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person deixis. 14. What conditions allows this expression to be appropriate?:'I sentence you six months to prison'. A) Reality. B) Felicity. C) Informative. D) Cooperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Felicity. 15. ..... is a pre-existing knowledge structure involving event sequences. A) Schema. B) Frame. C) Script. D) Background knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Script. 16. What was Paul Grice's theory? A) Conversational motives. B) Conversational manners. C) Conversational maxims. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conversational maxims. 17. Location to influence our interpretation is? A) Physical context. B) Linguistic context. C) Pragmatics. D) Person deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical context. 18. The tendency to use negative politeness forms, emphasizing the hearer's right to freedom, can be seen as a ..... A) Solidarity strategy. B) Face wants. C) Politeness. D) Deference strategy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deference strategy. 19. Sometimes, what we DON'T say is more important that what we DO say. This is known as ..... A) Implying by omission. B) Intertextuality. C) Synthetic personalisation. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implying by omission. 20. When there is a direct relationship between a structure and a function, it is called as a ..... speech act. A) Direct. B) Polite. C) Indirect. D) Straightforward. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 1Pragmatics Quiz 2Pragmatics Quiz 3Pragmatics Quiz 4Pragmatics Quiz 5Pragmatics Quiz 6Pragmatics Quiz 8Pragmatics Quiz 9Pragmatics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books