This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Pragmatic Inference – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatic Inference Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is NOT a "speech-act" A) Questions. B) Complaints. C) Requests. D) Gestures-(waving "Bye" ). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gestures-(waving "Bye" ). 2. Which of these is NOT a feature of pragmatics? A) Cultural references. B) Use of humour and irony. C) Assumptions about audiences. D) Implication and inference. E) Cohesion. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Cohesion. 3. An act by which a speaker/writer uses language to enable a listener/reader to identify someone or something A) Face. B) Inference. C) Anaphora. D) Refrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrence. 4. It is an additional information used by the listeners to connect what is said to what must be meant. A) Reference. B) Inference. C) Presuposition. D) Speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inference. 5. Pragmatics also focuses on conversational ..... , which is a method of communication in which the speaker implies and the listener infers. For example, when someone is using pragmatic language, they are suggesting or hinting a meaning towards the listener who supposes the accurate intention. A) Evidence. B) Inference. C) Implicature. D) Implication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Implicature. 6. A judge says to a happy couple, "I now pronounce you husband and wife.name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance ..... A) Expressive. B) Declaration. C) Representative. D) Commisive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Declaration. 7. What is an example of non-verbal "Pragmatic Knowledge" ? A) Gricean Maxims. B) Prosody. C) Eye Contact/Gaze. D) Speech Acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eye Contact/Gaze. 8. Children's understanding of "conversation" (i.e., norms and expectations) exceeds their understanding of the words said in a conversation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. Study of meaning in language. A) Semantics. B) Morphology. C) Syntax. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semantics. 10. Saying something that reduces a possible threat to another person's self-image A) Speech act. B) Infrence. C) Face-saving act. D) Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Face-saving act. 11. What is pragmatic? A) Pragmatic is the science of studying about meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure. B) Pragmatic is the science of studying about contextual meaning delivered by the speaker (writer) and interpreted by the listener (reader). C) Pragmatic is the science of studying about meaning of linguistic expressions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pragmatic is the science of studying about contextual meaning delivered by the speaker (writer) and interpreted by the listener (reader). 12. Using language to enable the hearer to identify something is called A) Reference. B) Inference. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reference. 13. Which of the following is NOT a component of "communicative competence" ? A) Phonetic Knowledge. B) Discourse Knowledge. C) Pragmatic Knowledge. D) Sociolinguistic Knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phonetic Knowledge. 14. Which of the following sentences relies on context for its meaning? A) Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. B) The Earth orbits the Sun. C) A triangle has three sides. D) Can you pass the salt?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can you pass the salt?. 15. What does a reference concern? A) How speakers use words to point or indicate persons, objects or concepts. B) Clarifying what one means to say. C) An other answer. D) The usage of an academic paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How speakers use words to point or indicate persons, objects or concepts. 16. The Co-operative Principle is also known as ..... A) Paul's Rules. B) Turn-taking. C) Grice's Maxims. D) Topic shifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grice's Maxims. 17. Semantic meaning that involves or is arbitrary. A) Inference. B) Reference. C) Associative. D) Conceptual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Associative. 18. In pragmatics, what is an implicature? A) A type of metaphor. B) A grammatical error. C) A direct statement of fact. D) An implied meaning that is not explicitly stated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An implied meaning that is not explicitly stated. 19. Can you read this?The word "can" is used with the function of a question, it is described as? A) Direct speech act. B) Indirect speech act. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct speech act. 20. A stretch of speech preceded and followed by silence or a change of speaker is called A) A sentence. B) An utterance. C) Discourse. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An utterance. 21. What is temporal deixis? A) The distinctions for person, spatial. B) Communicates distance and non-familiarity. Also, it has an ironic or humorous purpose. C) When speakers mark how close or distant something is perceived to be. D) Forms used to point to location in time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forms used to point to location in time. 22. The set of other words used in same phrase or sentence. A) Co-text. B) Physical context. C) Phonemes. D) Morphemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Co-text. 23. A. Can I borrow your Shakespeare?b.Yeah, it 's over there on the table.the infered reference '' Shakespeare" would be ..... A) Person. B) A writer. C) Place. D) Book. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Book. 24. In general, pragmatic "rules" and social conventions are universal across all of human language. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 25. Entailments differ from presuppositions in the fact that the truth of presuppositions is taken for granted and is not affected by negation. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 26. Which of the following is an example of a deictic expression? A) Quickly. B) Yesterday. C) Happiness. D) Running. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yesterday. 27. What are examples of spatial deixis? A) Here, there, over here, over there. B) Me, you, him, they, she. C) Now, then, tonight, last week, yesterday. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Here, there, over here, over there. 28. What is the term for the phenomenon where the meaning of a sentence is dependent on the context in which it is used? A) Contextualization. B) Pragmatic inference. C) Deixis. D) Semantic shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deixis. 29. What is the least direct way to ask to borrow a pencil? A) "I need a pencil.". B) "Give me a pencil.". C) "I forgot to bring a pencil.". D) "Can I have a pencil?". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "I forgot to bring a pencil.". 30. The time and place in which we encounter a linguistic expression. A) Co-text. B) Semantic meaning. C) Physical context. D) Associative meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physical context. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesPragmatic Inference Quiz 1Pragmatic Inference Quiz 2Pragmatic Inference Quiz 3Pragmatic Inference Quiz 5Conversation Analysis QuizConversation Skills QuizImplicature Exercises QuizMaxims Of Conversation Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books