This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Implicature Exercises – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Implicature Exercises Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Inferences that depend on the existence of norms for the use of language is the definition of ..... A) Conversational implicature. B) Cooperative communication. C) Cooperative principles. D) Maxim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conversational implicature. 2. "He sometimes reads the newspaper." What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance? A) Scalar implicature. B) Conventional implicature. C) Particularized conversational implicature. D) Generalized conversational implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scalar implicature. 3. Which conversational maxim emphasizes being truthful and not saying anything you believe to be false? A) Maxim of Relation. B) Maxim of Manner. C) Maxim of Quantity. D) Maxim of Quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maxim of Quality. 4. A friend asks, "Do you want to go out?" and you respond, "I have a big test tomorrow." What is this an example of? A) Conventional Implicature. B) Direct Speech Act. C) Conversational Implicature. D) Illocutionary Speech Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conversational Implicature. 5. A:Will Helen be at the meeting this morning? B:Her car broke down. What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance? A) Scalar implicature. B) Generalized conversational implicature. C) Particularized conversational implicature. D) Conventional implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Particularized conversational implicature. 6. When someone says, "I'm so cold, " and another person closes the window, what type of act is this? A) Perlocutionary Act. B) Locutionary Act. C) Illocutionary Act. D) Conventional Implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perlocutionary Act. 7. A:Caca let's play! B:Your shirt is so pretty!The conversation above is a violation of the rule of the maxim of ..... A) Quality. B) Relevance. C) Quantity. D) Maxim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relevance. 8. ..... conversational implicature is an implicature where some assumed knowledge is required in very specific context during a conversation. A) Convetional. B) Generalized. C) Particularized. D) Scalar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Particularized. 9. In conversational implicature, also called Implications, the speaker says one thing but means another. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. What is the difference between implicature and speech acts? A) Implicature relies on indirect meaning, while speech acts perform an action. B) Speech acts are always indirect, while implicature is always direct. C) Implicature involves only verbal communication, while speech acts involve gestures. D) Speech acts are only used in legal or formal settings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implicature relies on indirect meaning, while speech acts perform an action. 11. "John walked into a house yesterday and saw a tortoise" What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance? A) Scalar implicature. B) Particularized conversational implicature. C) Conventional implicature. D) Generalized conversational implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Generalized conversational implicature. 12. ..... implicatures are not tied to the particular words and phrases in an utterance but arise instead from contextual factors and the understanding that conventions are observed in conversation. A) Conventional. B) Conversational. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conversational. 13. "A:Where is my box of chocolates?B:The children were in your room this morning." Which maxim does the answer of B violate? A) Maxim of relation. B) Maxim of quantity. C) Maxim of manner. D) Maxim of quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maxim of relation. 14. What kind of implicature does B include in his expression?A:I'm going to the prison tomorrow.B:Will 200 dollars do? A) Conventional. B) Scalar. C) Particularized conversational. D) Generalized conversational. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Particularized conversational. 15. Does the conventional implicature rely on the cooperative principle? A) YES. B) NO. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO. 16. A:Can you recommend any good new films? B:I'm thinking about buying a new phone, but I'm not sure which brand or model is best.=> B has flouted the maxim of ..... A) Quality. B) Manner. C) Relation. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relation. 17. Which one is the example of the maxim of quality? A) The capital of India is New Delhi. B) Andi: "Do you know if Katie got on okay with her exams?"Rudy: "Yes, I do. She did really well and got an A!". C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The capital of India is New Delhi. 18. "Group 6 has 3 members." is the example of ..... A) Maxim of Relation. B) Maxim of Manner. C) Maxim of Quantity. D) Maxim of Quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maxim of Quantity. 19. The generalized conversational implicature of "a/an X" is: A) Not speaker's X. B) Speaker's X. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not speaker's X. 20. What is TRUE about conversational implicature? A) Conversational implicature involves implied meanings that are not explicitly stated by the speaker. B) Conversational implicature involves implied meanings that are not explicitly stated by the hearer. C) Conversational implicature involves meanings that are explicitly stated by the speaker. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conversational implicature involves implied meanings that are not explicitly stated by the speaker. 21. In the sentence "David even help the old woman to go home" . what is implied fro the speaker's utterance? A) The speaker is happy that David helped the old woman to go home. B) David is claimed to help the old woman to go home with his pleasure.l. C) David is not expected to help the old woman to go home. D) The speaker believes that David usually helps the old woman with other tasks, not necessarily with going home. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) David is not expected to help the old woman to go home. 22. Conventional implicatures are associated with ..... A) Specific words. B) Special context. C) Interpretation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Specific words. 23. "John is poor but happy."What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance? A) Generalized conversational implicature. B) Scalar implicature. C) Conventional implicature. D) Particularized conversational implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conventional implicature. 24. What are the Maxim of Quantity? A) Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity. B) Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither too little information nor too much. C) Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has been said before. D) Speakers are experted o be sincere, to be saying something that they believe corresponds to reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither too little information nor too much. 25. Which Maxim says:Be clear; be brief; be orderly; don't be obscure? A) The Maxim of Manner. B) The Maxim of Quantity. C) The Maxim of Relation. D) The Maxim of Quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Maxim of Manner. 26. A:That dish looks delicious!B:I would like a piece of it. A) B's utterance may implicate that the dish looks delicious. B) B's utterance may implicate that the dish looks bad. C) B's utterance may implicate that B don't care the dish. D) Both b and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B's utterance may implicate that the dish looks delicious. 27. What are the similarities between conventional implicatures and conversational implicatures? A) They don't depend on special contexts. B) They are indirect ways of conveying meaning beyond the literal words spoken. C) They don't have to occur in conversation. D) They aren't based on the cooperative principle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are indirect ways of conveying meaning beyond the literal words spoken. 28. What is scalar implicature of the sentence "I've read some chapters of that book" . A) "I've read most chapters of the book.". B) "I've not read all chapters of that book.". C) "I've read one chapter of that book.". D) "I've read no chapter of that book.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "I've not read all chapters of that book.". 29. "Even Bill likes Mary" What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance? A) Particularized conversational implicature. B) Scalar implicature. C) Generalized conversational implicature. D) Conventional implicature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conventional implicature. 30. According to Grice, what do speakers expect from each other in conversation? A) To be ambiguous. B) To be deceptive. C) To be irrelevant. D) To be cooperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To be cooperative. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesImplicature Exercises Quiz 1Implicature Exercises Quiz 2Implicature Exercises Quiz 4Conversation Analysis QuizConversation Skills QuizMaxims Of Conversation QuizPoliteness And Face QuizPoliteness Strategies Spoken English Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books