This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Implicature Exercises – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Implicature Exercises Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "I'm writing an essay on metonymy. It is a type of figure of speech!"What kind of maxim does the sentence above has? A) Relevance. B) Manner. C) Quality. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manner. 2. "Will Sally be at the meeting this afternoon?-Her car broke down" What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance? A) Particularized conversational implicature. B) Generalized conversational implicature. C) Scalar implicature. D) Conventional implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Particularized conversational implicature. 3. Characteristics of conversational implicature? A) That something must be more than just what the words mean. It is an additional conveyed meaning. B) People somewhat different draw conversational implicature from a certain utterance. C) Conversational implicature can be suspended or denied. D) B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B and C. 4. When speakers flout the Maxim of Manner, ..... A) They may hyperbole, metaphor, irony and banter. B) They appear to be obscure, are often trying to exclude a third party. C) They expert that the hearers will be able to imagine that the utterance did not say. D) They seem to give too little or too much information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They appear to be obscure, are often trying to exclude a third party. 5. When adhering to the maxim of manner, what should a speaker aim to do? A) Be relevant. B) Be truthful. C) Avoid ambiguity and obscurity. D) Provide enough information. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Avoid ambiguity and obscurity. 6. What type of implicature occurs when a speaker implies something without directly stating it? A) Pragmatic implicature. B) Semantic implicature. C) Conversational implicature. D) Conventional implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conversational implicature. 7. A conventional implicature can be canceled by further information or context. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. GENERALIZED CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE does not need ..... A) Meaning. B) Fact. C) Background knowledge. D) Special expertise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Background knowledge. 9. Which maxim does the answer violate? "A:I hear you went to the opera last night; how was the lead singer?B:The singer produced a series of sounds corresponding closely to the score of an aria from 'Rigoletto" ' A) Maxim of quality. B) Maxim of manner. C) Maxim of quantity. D) Maxim of relation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maxim of manner. 10. We can ..... our conversational implicature A) Choose. B) Modify. C) Opt for. D) Cancel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cancel. 11. In implicature, what distinguishes the implied meaning from the explicit meaning? A) The context of the conversation. B) The tone of voice. C) The speaker's intention. D) The grammatical structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The speaker's intention. 12. ..... regarding the limitation of information conveyed by the speaker. A) Quantity. B) Relation. C) Quality. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantity. 13. Which one of these options is not a type of maxim? A) Quality. B) Implicature. C) Relevance. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Implicature. 14. Conventional implicature can be: A) Calculated. B) Detachble. C) Feasible. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calculated. 15. When no special knowledge is required in the context to calculate the additional conveyed meaning, it is called a generalized conversational implicature. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. "A:Where is my phone? B:Your brother is hiding something." The above dialogue is an example of ..... A) Generalized conversational implicature. B) Scalar conversational implicature. C) Particularized conversational implicatures. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Particularized conversational implicatures. 17. All of the options below are violations of the rule of the maxim of quantity, except ..... A) Too much information. B) Not contribute more informative than required. C) Not supported by evidence. D) Lacks important information. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not supported by evidence. 18. When adhering to the maxim of relevance, what should a speaker aim to do? A) Provide necessary information. B) Be clear and concise. C) Be truthful. D) Stay on topic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stay on topic. 19. The true meaning of implicature is ..... A) Additional information. B) Inference. C) Tell the exact message. D) Guessing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Additional information. 20. What is NOT the statement in the maxim of manner? A) Be truthful. B) Be brief. C) Avoid obscurity. D) Avoid ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Be truthful. 21. Which of the following is an example of conversational implicature? A) Someone responding to "Are you coming?" with "I have a lot of work to do.". B) A judge saying, "I sentence you to five years in prison.". C) A teacher explaining a grammar rule directly to a student. D) A student saying, "I apologize for being late.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone responding to "Are you coming?" with "I have a lot of work to do.". 22. Many expressions such as " business is business" , or "boys will be boys" are called ..... A) Tautologies. B) Conversational implicature. C) Particularized conversational implicature. D) Conventional implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tautologies. 23. "Don't say what you believe to be false" What maxim does this above rule belong to? A) Maxim of quality. B) Maxim of quantity. C) Maxim of manner. D) Maxim of relation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maxim of quality. 24. 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. 25. Which of these sentences contain a quality maxim violation? A) A:Where did you buy your skirt? It's so beautiful! B:I bought it in the Gangnam shop, beside the 88 cafeterias in the city. B) I am multimillionaire.(actually, I am penniless). C) A:How did he sing? B:He looked wonderful. D) A:How much did that new dress cost? B:Less than the last one. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I am multimillionaire.(actually, I am penniless). 26. When a speaker says, "I have no money left in my wallet, " the implicature might be: A) The speaker has no money at all. B) The speaker has money but not in their wallet. C) The speaker is joking. D) The speaker wants someone to lend them money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The speaker wants someone to lend them money. 27. One attempts to be truthful and does not provide information that is false or unsupported by evidence when obeying the ..... maxim. A) Quantity. B) Quality. C) Manner. D) Relevance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quality. 28. Rick: "Want to grab dinner at that new restaurant?" Tom: "I'm on diet this week."What kind of implicature was Tom's response classified in? A) Generalized conversational implicature. B) Scalar implicature. C) Particularized conversational implicature. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Particularized conversational implicature. 29. Can conventional implicature cancellable? A) YES. B) NO. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO. 30. Which kind of maxims does this conversation NOT follow?A: "What are you doing?"B: "1+1=2, 2+2=4, 4+1=5" A) Quantity. B) Quality. C) Relation. D) Manner. 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