This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither too little information nor too much" is: A) Maxim of quality. B) Maxim of quantity. C) Maxim of relevance. D) Maxim of manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maxim of quantity. 2. Deixis refers to expressions which A) Are used to point to someone or something through language. B) Mention someone or something in speech or writing. C) Show a relation between a referent and thought. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are used to point to someone or something through language. 3. A woman says to someone next to her at the grocery store, "It's going to be a very windy day." name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Declarative. B) Representative. C) Expressive. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Representative. 4. The two kinds of context are: A) Physical and deixis context. B) Deixis and expression. C) Physical and linguistic context. D) Deixis and linguistic context. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physical and linguistic context. 5. Can be defined as the right to speak, it called: A) Floor. B) Turn. C) Turn-taking. D) Local management system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Floor. 6. "find out, discover, know, realize, be aware of, regret, .." are often considered as indicators of ..... A) Factive presupposition. B) Lexical presupposition. C) Structural presupposition. D) Non-factive presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Factive presupposition. 7. Which answer is not a semantic changes A) Generalization. B) Specialization. C) Amelioration. D) Cognate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cognate. 8. The actual utterance and its literal meaning A) Locutionary act. B) Illocutionary act. C) Perlocutionary act. D) Speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locutionary act. 9. ..... two speakers have in common, ..... language they'll need to use to identify familiar things. A) The more ; the more. B) The less ; the less. C) The less ; the more. D) The more ; the less. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The more ; the less. 10. Name the underlined part:'Let me just tell you this about her:she is a very efficient worker'. A) Anaphora. B) Deixis. C) Cataphora. D) Presuppositon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cataphora. 11. The study of what speakers mean, or "speaker meaning, " is called A) Pragmatics. B) Deixis. C) Context. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pragmatics. 12. "Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity" is: A) Maxim of quality. B) Maxim of quantity. C) Maxim of relevance. D) Maxim of manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maxim of manner. 13. If we want to identify the sequence and order of pragmatics. What should we keep in mind? A) Deixis, References, and Enviroment. B) Speech, Temporal situation, and Context. C) Context, Situational place, and Enviroment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context, Situational place, and Enviroment. 14. What does 'discourse' refer to in the study of language? A) The vocabulary of a text. B) The structure, organisation and layout of a text. C) The meaning behind the vocabulary of a text. D) The mode of a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The structure, organisation and layout of a text. 15. The tendency to use positive politeness forms, emphasizing closeness between speaker and hearer, can be seen as a ..... A) Solidarity strategy. B) Face wants. C) Politeness. D) Deference strategy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solidarity strategy. 16. ..... refers to words in our language that cannot be interpreted at all if we do not know the context, especially the physical context of the speaker. A) Presupposition. B) Reference. C) Deixis. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deixis. 17. The use of explicit linguistic devices to signal relations between sentences and parts of texts is known as ..... A) Anaphora. B) Cataphora. C) Ellipsis. D) Cohesion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cohesion. 18. Linguistic forms like proper nouns, definite and definite noun phrase, and pronouns are called ..... A) Reffering expression. B) Phrases. C) Idiom. D) Synonem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reffering expression. 19. How many types of the general function performed by speech acts A) 3. B) 4. C) 5. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 20. Demonstratives 'there', 'those' A) Spatial deixis. B) Person deixis. C) Face threatening act. D) Negative face need. 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