This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Pragmatics > Pragmatics – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Now, then, last week are examples of? A) Pragmatics. B) Temporal deixis. C) Deixis. D) Spatial deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal deixis. 2. There, tomorrow A) Paul Grice. B) Proximal deixis. C) Negative politeness strategy. D) Distal deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Distal deixis. 3. What is the semantic understanding of 'close the door'? A) It is cold. B) I have something to tell you. C) Shut the door. D) I am very angry with you. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shut the door. 4. The idea of COOPERATION in a conversation means that ..... A) Try not to confuse. B) Tell the truth. C) Be relevant. D) All true. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All true. 5. In a direct speech act, the declarative sentence type functions as: A) Statement. B) Question. C) Order or request. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Statement. 6. Jane:'Did you visit Rome and Florence?'Bill:'I visited Florence.' A) Generalized conversational implicature, because you have to analyze all the context. B) Explicature. C) Anaphora. D) Hedge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generalized conversational implicature, because you have to analyze all the context. 7. Guidelines for making a good conversation according to Grice A) Cooperative principle. B) Maxims. C) Cooperative & maxims. D) Conversational implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cooperative & maxims. 8. "Let's meet on MONDAY ." MONDAY is: A) Person deixis. B) Spacial deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temporal deixis. 9. When making a conversation, sometimes DEGREE OF CERTAINTY is included, why? A) To give a good example. B) To make a focus. C) To strengthen the message. D) To repeat the messages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To make a focus. 10. Jack:What was his reason for leaving? Kate:I don't know, probably something has happened to him.What type of presupposition is included in the first utterance? A) Existential. B) Factive. C) Lexical. D) Structural. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structural. 11. A teenage boy says to another teenage boy, "Go ahead-Make me!" name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Commisive. B) Expressive. C) Representative. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commisive. 12. Here, there, near are examples of? A) P erson deixis. B) Context. C) Physical context. D) Spatial deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spatial deixis. 13. "May you find your own Frederick Wentworth. "The sentence above is an example of ..... p/s:Frederick Wentworth is a character in the novel Persuasion by Jane Austen. A) Anaphora. B) Cataphora. C) Reference. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reference. 14. How many types of background knowledge? A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 15. ....., in an interaction, can then be defined as the means employed to show awareness of another person's face. A) Interaction. B) Face wants. C) Politeness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Politeness. 16. Which is an example of negative politeness strategies? A) Apologies. B) Compliments. C) Nicknames. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apologies. 17. What is the illocution of the following statement?"Kids, the classroom is a mess!" A) The speaker asserts that the room is untidy. B) The speaker wants the hearer to clean up the room. C) The hearer cleans up the room. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker wants the hearer to clean up the room. 18. The ideational function of the language implies ..... A) Creating well-formed and appropriate texts. B) Taking part in social interaction. C) Taking part in events. D) Representing thought and experience in a coherent way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Representing thought and experience in a coherent way. 19. A parent says to her child, "I forbid you to leave your room." name the implicit speech act of the utterance. A) Directive. B) Expressive. C) Representative. D) Declaration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Directive. 20. What studies Pragmatics? A) It studies the use of language in context. B) It studies the meaning in context. C) It studies how meaning affects the context. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It studies the meaning in context. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesPragmatics Quiz 1Pragmatics Quiz 2Pragmatics Quiz 3Pragmatics Quiz 4Pragmatics Quiz 5Pragmatics Quiz 6Pragmatics Quiz 7Pragmatics Quiz 8Pragmatics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books