This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Pragmatic Inference – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatic Inference Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Illocutionary act is the basic act of utterance or producing ameaningful expression. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. For the following indirect speech acts of the utterance"You're welcome to come to my party next week"name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance A) Expressive. B) Commisive. C) Representative. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commisive. 3. Which of the following is NOT a part of non-verbal "Pragmatic Knowledge" ? A) Gestures. B) Body Language. C) Prosody. D) Facial Expressions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prosody. 4. What is pragmatics? A) Communicates distance and non-familiarity. Also, it has an ironic or humorous purpose. B) When speakers mark how close or distant something is perceived to be. C) Studies how people make sense of each other linguistically. D) Forms used to point to location in time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Studies how people make sense of each other linguistically. 5. The relation between a linguistic expression and its expresser is a part of pragmatics. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Saying something that represents a threat to another person's self-image A) Infrence. B) Face-threatening act. C) Face. D) Face-saving act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Face-threatening act. 7. The need to be connected, to belong, to be a member of a group A) Face-threatening act. B) Positive Face. C) Negative Face. D) Face-saving act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive Face. 8. '' I am going to buy a present THERE" . THERE is: A) Spacial deixis. B) Person deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spacial deixis. 9. What is a speech act in the context of pragmatics? A) An action performed via speaking. B) A grammatical error. C) A form of politeness. D) A type of sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An action performed via speaking. 10. Sometimes, what we DON'T say is more important that what we DO say. This is known as ..... A) Synthetic personalisation. B) Implying by omission. C) Intertextuality. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Implying by omission. 11. Identify the sentence that uses inference: A) She must be at work because her car is not in the driveway. B) I have a cat. C) The book is on the table. D) The sky is blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She must be at work because her car is not in the driveway. 12. Which of the following best describes inference in pragmatics? A) Guessing the meaning of unknown words. B) Drawing conclusions based on context and prior knowledge. C) Understanding grammar rules. D) Translating text from one language to another. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drawing conclusions based on context and prior knowledge. 13. What might be an example of a child who is struggling with non-verbal pragmatic knowledge? A) A child who talks at too high of a volume. B) A child holds eye-contact well in a conversation. C) A child who constantly stands too close when talking with friends. D) A child who speaks to their teacher in "too-casual" of a register. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A child who constantly stands too close when talking with friends. 14. Using words such as here or there as a way of "pointing" to a location with language A) Temporal deixis. B) Anaphora. C) Person deixis. D) Spaital deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spaital deixis. 15. Using words such as this or here as a way of "pointing" with language A) Deixis (deictic expressions). B) Anaphora. C) Physical text. D) Semantics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deixis (deictic expressions). 16. Which of the following best describes the concept of 'face' in pragmatics? A) The literal meaning of words. B) The grammatical structure of a sentence. C) The phonetic articulation of sounds. D) The social value a person claims for themselves in a conversation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The social value a person claims for themselves in a conversation. 17. Which of the following is an example of a speech act where the speaker's intention is not explicitly stated? A) Literal speech act. B) Direct speech act. C) Explicit speech act. D) Indirect speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indirect speech act. 18. What does the semantic relation of the entailment refer to? A) It references something in the near future. B) The sentence has a specific meaning that the speaker needs to decode. C) It needs to make sense in the sentence. D) One sentence cannot be true without the other. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One sentence cannot be true without the other. 19. The study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning in language is known as: A) Morphology. B) Semantics. C) Syntax. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pragmatics. 20. What inference can the hearer draw from "John likes listening to Mozart." A) John likes this guy called Mozart. B) John likes the music composed by Mozart. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John likes the music composed by Mozart. 21. What age do we master the social use of language? A) Never, we are always learning!. B) 5-7 years old. C) 10-12 years old. D) 15-20 years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Never, we are always learning!. 22. The study of how context contributes to meaning in language. A) Semantics. B) Morphology. C) Syntax. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pragmatics. 23. What kind of reference do these pronouns have? "Michael went to the bank. HE was annoyed because IT was closed." A) Anaphora. B) Cataphora. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 24. Would you mind stepping aside? I got a purchase to make.The sentence above is positive politeness. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. Pragmatics is NOT concerned with: A) The use of language in social contexts. B) The relations between signs and the referents. C) He choice of language in social interaction andthe effect of this choice on others. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relations between signs and the referents. 26. ..... semantics studies how the meaning of complex expressions is constructed, such as for example phrases, sentences, locutions, or even discourses. A) Lexical. B) Compositional. C) Combinatory. D) Locutionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compositional. 27. Ayo ikut KB 2 Anak Cukupwrite out the implicit speech act of the utterance A) The government ask indonesia women to join family panning. B) The government avoid indonesia women to join family panning. C) The government suggest indonesia women to join family panning. D) The government offer indonesia women to join family panning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The government ask indonesia women to join family panning. 28. One friend says to another, "I swear I won't see Martha again." name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Declarative. B) Directive. C) Commisive. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commisive. 29. The flow of the discourse stays the same regardless of a speaker's willingness to accept a presupposition or not. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 30. What is a "Register" ? A) The words in your vocabulary. B) How you comprehend, or "register" what someone said. C) A type of language used in specific contexts. D) A type of language used in formal, academic, or professional contexts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A type of language used in specific contexts. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesPragmatic Inference Quiz 1Pragmatic Inference Quiz 3Pragmatic Inference Quiz 4Pragmatic Inference Quiz 5Conversation Analysis QuizConversation Skills QuizImplicature Exercises QuizMaxims Of Conversation Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books