This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Pragmatic Inference – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatic Inference Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When a child learns to adjust their language based on who they are speaking to (using simple words with younger kids versus with friends) what are they showing? A) Pragmatic Knowledge. B) Sociolinguistic Knowledge. C) Situational Knowledge. D) Discourse Knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sociolinguistic Knowledge. 2. For the following indirect speech acts of utterance"It's obvious that Bill is going to be late for his interview"name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance A) Representative. B) Commisive. C) Directive. D) Declative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Representative. 3. A teenage boy says to another teenage boy, "Go ahead-Make me!" name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Directive. B) Expressive. C) Representative. D) Commisive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commisive. 4. The process of using additional information by the hearer to connect what was said with what must be meant is A) Reference. B) Inference. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inference. 5. "Let's meet on MONDAY." MONDAY is: A) Person deixis. B) Spacial deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temporal deixis. 6. Showing awareness and consideration of another person's public self-image A) Politeness. B) Presupposition. C) Speech act. D) Infrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Politeness. 7. An assumption made by the speaker or the writer. A) Reference. B) Speech act. C) Inference. D) Presuposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Presuposition. 8. Semantic meaning presented in dictionaries. A) Reference. B) Conceptual. C) Speech act. D) Presuposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conceptual. 9. Listeners make inferences when they A) Use background knowledge to make a conclusion about a meaning that the speaker didn't say. B) Want the speaker to refer to something. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use background knowledge to make a conclusion about a meaning that the speaker didn't say. 10. An action in which the form used (e.g. interrogative) directly matches the function (e.g. question) performed by a speaker with an utterance A) Presupposition. B) Direct speech act. C) Infrence. D) Antecedent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct speech act. 11. At what age do children typically begin to report stories in reference to themselves? A) 10-11 Years old. B) 8-9 Years old. C) 6-7 Years old. D) 4-5 Years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4-5 Years old. 12. In pragmatics, what is the purpose of a face-saving act? A) To correct a grammatical error. B) To perform a speech act. C) To threaten someone's self-image. D) To enhance a person's public self-image. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To enhance a person's public self-image. 13. What kind of reference do this pronoun have? "Although I phone HER every week, my mother still complains that I don't keep in touch often enough." A) Anaphora. B) Cataphora. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cataphora. 14. What is the role of context in pragmatics? A) It determines the literal meaning of words. B) It helps in understanding the intended meaning beyond words. C) It is irrelevant to understanding language use. D) It only affects written communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It helps in understanding the intended meaning beyond words. 15. An action in which the form used (e.g. interrogative) does not directly match the function (e.g. request) performed by a speaker with an utterance, A) Indirect speech act. B) Face-threatening act. C) Face-saving act. D) Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indirect speech act. 16. ..... express a statement. It is necessary to be an authority in that matter. A builder cannot marry a couple, but a priest can. e.g:I declare you husband and wife. A) Directives. B) Declaratives. C) Commisives. D) Expressives. E) Assertives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Declaratives. 17. For the following indirect speech acts of utterance"It's obvious that Bill is going to be late for his interview"write out the implicit speech act of the utterance A) I believe that Bill is going to be late for his interview. B) I promise that Bill is going to be late for his interview. C) I command that Bill is going to be late for his interview. D) I refuse that Bill is going to be late for his interview. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I believe that Bill is going to be late for his interview. 18. '' A was was looking at us. He then disappeared"the subquent reference is definite or pronoun (he ..... )it is called ..... A) Antecedent. B) Anaphora. C) Context. D) Idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 19. An action such as "promising" performed by a speaker with an utterance, either as a direct speech act or an indirect speech act A) Speech act. B) Imperative. C) Presupposition. D) Infrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech act. 20. 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) Representative. B) Declarative. C) Expressive. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Representative. 21. The act of affectingsomeone is also known as Perlocution. A) Agree. B) Disagree. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agree. 22. What is reference? A) An act in which a speaker or writer, uses linguistic forms to enable a listener or reader, to identify something. B) Forms used to point to location in time. C) Studies how people make sense of each other linguistically. D) When speakers mark how close or distant something is perceived to be. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An act in which a speaker or writer, uses linguistic forms to enable a listener or reader, to identify something. 23. Fill the blank: ..... is where words are omitted because the context makes it clear what is meant. A) Cataphora. B) Adverbials. C) Ellipsis. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ellipsis. 24. What inference can the hearer draw from "Some of the students passed the exam" A) Not all of the students passed the exam. B) All of the students passed the exam. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not all of the students passed the exam. 25. I am sorry to bother you.Do you agree that the sentence above is a positive face? A) Agree. B) Disagree. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disagree. 26. Which of the following is an example of a directive? A) "Please close the window.". B) "I believe in kindness.". C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Please close the window.". 27. A person's public self-image as described in the study of politeness A) Face. B) Cataphora. C) Speech act. D) Infrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Face. 28. What does the term 'face' refer to in pragmatics? A) A form of deixis. B) A type of speech act. C) A grammatical structure. D) A person's public self-image. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A person's public self-image. 29. Never the word or the phrase that has a presupposition. Only speakers can have presuppositions. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. "Can you open the window, please?"this statement is ..... A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perlocutionary. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesPragmatic Inference Quiz 1Pragmatic Inference Quiz 2Pragmatic Inference Quiz 4Pragmatic Inference Quiz 5Conversation Analysis QuizConversation Skills QuizImplicature Exercises QuizMaxims Of Conversation Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books