This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Pragmatic Markers In Conversation – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatic Markers In Conversation Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who coined the phrase 'synthetic personalisation'? A) Cameron. B) Fairclough. C) Grice. D) Drew & Heritage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fairclough. 2. "Anything that has been uttered in the discourse prior to or along with the pronoun" , which type of context is it? A) Situational context. B) Linguistic context. C) Reflexive context. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Linguistic context. 3. Define Illocutionary Act: A) What is said classified into:representative, directive, question, commisive, expressive and declaration. B) What is done classified into:representative, directive, question, commisive, expressive and declaration. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What is done classified into:representative, directive, question, commisive, expressive and declaration. 4. Define Literal Locutionary act A) When what is said is impossible within the context of what is being said. B) When what is said is exaggerated. C) When what is said is ambiguous. D) When what is said is exactly what is meant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When what is said is exactly what is meant. 5. The study of interactions between individuals and the underlying interactions and norms of expectations established in social groups and cultures. A) Kindness. B) Implicature. C) Felicity. D) Politeness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Politeness. 6. What is Ellen's illocutionary act when she says " What?" (3:11-3:20) A) Promise. B) Compliment. C) Surprise. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surprise. 7. Which type of discourse analysis explores how language use reveals power imbalances? A) Critical Discourse Analysis. B) Structural Discourse Analysis. C) Narrative Analysis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Critical Discourse Analysis. 8. What type of statement is:Driving without a seat belt is illegal. A) Nonliteral Locutionary Act:. B) Literal Locutionary act:. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literal Locutionary act:. 9. There are ..... basic kinds of illocutionary acts A) Six. B) Five. C) Four. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Five. 10. Deixis which means 'pointing' via language is ..... (Except) A) Make sense out of meaning. B) Tied to speaker's context. C) Is derived from the context of utterance. D) A form of refering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Make sense out of meaning. 11. Which concept involves speaker attitude and modality in their utterance? A) Deixis. B) Presupposition. C) Disambiguation. D) Stance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stance. 12. This element of communication can be defined as the use of time in nonverbal communication. A) Chronemics. B) Haptics. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chronemics. 13. It is the mere act of producing some linguistic sounds or marks with a certain meaning and reference A) Locutionary act. B) Perlocutionary act. C) Illocutionary act. D) Non speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locutionary act. 14. This is how touching conveys messages in nonverbal communication. A) Chronemics. B) Haptics. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haptics. 15. In a formal setting, when someone states, "I hereby pronounce you husband and wife, " what speech act is being performed? A) Locutionary act. B) Illocutionary act. C) Perlocutionary act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illocutionary act. 16. What role does context play in pragmatic analysis? A) Context is irrelevant to language interpretation. B) Context is only important in formal settings. C) Context is crucial in pragmatic analysis as it shapes the meaning and interpretation of language. D) Context only affects written language, not spoken. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context is crucial in pragmatic analysis as it shapes the meaning and interpretation of language. 17. Define deixis and provide examples. A) Deixis refers to words that have fixed meanings regardless of context. B) Deixis is a term used for grammatical structures that do not change with context. C) Examples of deixis include 'cat', 'dog', and 'house'. D) Deixis is a linguistic term for words that require context to convey meaning, such as 'I', 'you', 'here', and 'now'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deixis is a linguistic term for words that require context to convey meaning, such as 'I', 'you', 'here', and 'now'. 18. What is the Illocutionary act of this utterance: "Can I have a slice of Pizza?" (Customer to waiter) A) The customer is asking whether he/she can have a slice of Pizza. B) A request to have a slice of Pizza. C) The waiter gets a slice of Pizza for the customer. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A request to have a slice of Pizza. 19. This is the use of words in relation to how we see the world, context, and participants in a speech act. A) Vocabulary. B) Accent. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vocabulary. 20. Which of the following is a speech act with illocutionary force? A) 'I promise to help you tomorrow.'. B) 'What time is it?'. C) 'Tomorrow is Saturday.'. D) 'The book is red.'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'I promise to help you tomorrow.'. 21. What are implicatures and how do they function? A) Implicatures are implied meanings in conversation that rely on context and shared knowledge. B) Implicatures have no relation to context or shared knowledge. C) Implicatures are only used in written communication. D) Implicatures are always explicit statements in conversation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implicatures are implied meanings in conversation that rely on context and shared knowledge. 22. It relates to the relation between words and expressions, and their logical word order. A) Logic. B) Pragmatics. C) Semantics. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 23. Semantics is the study of A) The relations of linguistic units to context. B) The relations of linguistic units to the object they denote. C) The relations of the grammatical relations of linguistic units to one another and the grammatical structures of the phrases. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relations of linguistic units to the object they denote. 24. In speech act theory, utterances have two kinds of meaning:Propositional meaning and illocutionary meaning. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. "The actual words uttered '' belongs to ..... A) Illocutionary. B) Locutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) Locationary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Locutionary. 26. Perlocutionary act is the effect of the utterance on the hearer, depending on specific circumstances. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. Action performed when an utterance is produced. This can be analyzed on three different levels:locution, illocutionary force, and perlocutionary effect. A) Chat. B) Cataphora. C) Speech act. D) Parlay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speech act. 28. What is presupposition? A) The assumed-to-be-true fact upon which an utterance is delivered. B) The study of extra-truth-conditional meaning. C) The expression of relative distance. D) The study of how more gets communicated than is said. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The assumed-to-be-true fact upon which an utterance is delivered. 29. Constative utterances can be true or false. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. You, me, him, her, their are all examples of A) Temporal deixis. B) Spacial deixis. C) Personal deixis. D) All three options. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personal deixis. 31. Utterances have the same referential meaning but may have different pragmatic meaning depending on A) Word order. B) The context in which they are used. C) The intention of the speaker. D) Both 1 & 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both 1 & 2. 32. Phenomena in speech that avoids repetition and depends on the hearers' ability to retrieve missing words or even sentences from context. A) Endophora. B) Ellipsis. C) Suppression. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellipsis. 33. How can socio linguistic factors influence language variation? A) Socio-linguistic factors only affect pronunciation, not vocabulary or grammar. B) Socio-linguistic factors have no impact on language variation. C) Language variation is solely determined by geographical location. D) Socio-linguistic factors influence language variation by affecting dialects, vocabulary, and grammar based on social class, ethnicity, age, gender, and location. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Socio-linguistic factors influence language variation by affecting dialects, vocabulary, and grammar based on social class, ethnicity, age, gender, and location. 34. This is related to the pronunciation of a language. It is the way the words are uttered with a characteristic pitch, stress and rhythm, representative of a specific speech community. A) Accent. B) Vocabulary. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accent. 35. When using a performative utterance, a person is just saying something. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 36. "Murder is a sin." This is an example of ..... A) Constative utterance. B) Performative utterance. C) Ethical utterance. D) Phatic utterance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethical utterance. 37. What is the Perlocutionary act of this utterance: "The bus won't move until you boys move in out of the doorway" (Bus driver to the boys standing in the doorway) A) The driver is saying he/ won't start the bus with people standing in the doorway. B) An order (directive) to clear the doorway. C) The boys will move inside the bus or move out of the doorway. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The boys will move inside the bus or move out of the doorway. 38. Contextual meaning is also known as A) Utterance meaning. B) Force utterance. C) Lexical meaning. D) Abstract meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abstract meaning. 39. The term girl will be a girl is called A) Tautology. B) Emphiology. C) Both. D) Non of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tautology. 40. A technical term known as deictic expressions (from Greek) which means "pointing" via language. A) Context. B) Inference. C) Deixis. D) Reference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deixis. 41. Which example best shows sociopragmatic failure? A) Pronouncing 'think' as 'sink'. B) Using 'the' when 'a' is needed. C) Saying 'Shut up' to a professor because it's common in your L1. D) Using 'Could you ' instead of 'Please '. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saying 'Shut up' to a professor because it's common in your L1. 42. Which of the following is an example of listener meaning? A) Understanding the literal meaning of words. B) Interpreting the context of a conversation. C) Recognizing the intended meaning of an utterance. D) Deciphering the hidden meaning behind a statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interpreting the context of a conversation. 43. Define Language Variation A) The interrelationship between the language of a group and its social characteristics. B) Study of those features of language that differ systematically as we compare different groups of speakers of same speaker in different situation. C) A systematic variety of a language specific or a particular group. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Study of those features of language that differ systematically as we compare different groups of speakers of same speaker in different situation. 44. The term pragmatics was first introduced by the philosopher A) John Austin. B) Charles Morris. C) Paul Grice. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Austin. 45. A perlocution is ..... A) The effect on a hearer. B) The communicative intention. C) The linguistic form. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The effect on a hearer. 46. What is the Locutionary act of this utterance: "How beautiful you look today!" (Husband to wife) A) The husband praises his wife. B) "Can I have more money for this month?". C) "Do not get angry with me anymore!". D) The wife will accept the compliment and become happier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The wife will accept the compliment and become happier. 47. Less rigid but still constrained. Used in professional, academic, or legal settings where communication is expected to be respectful, uninterrupted, and restrained. A) Frozen. B) Formal. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formal. 48. How does context influence meaning in communication? A) Context only matters in written communication. B) Context is irrelevant to the speaker's intent. C) Context shapes the interpretation of messages in communication. D) Context has no effect on communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context shapes the interpretation of messages in communication. 49. The aim of perlocution speech act is to change feelings, ..... , or actions A) Attitudes. B) Thoughts. C) Collections. D) Hobbies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thoughts. 50. These may be defined as:The appropriate conditions for a speech act to be recognized as intended ..... they often involve the rights, obligations, beliefs or abilities of participants. A) Felicity conditions. B) Happy conditions. C) Politeness. D) Conversational Maxims. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Felicity conditions. 51. According to Grice's maxims, which principle expects one to be relevant in conversation? A) Maxim of Quality. B) Maxim of Manner. C) Maxim of Relation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maxim of Relation. 52. Define Locutionary act or meaning A) When what is said is exactly what is meant. B) When what is said is impossible within the context of what is being said. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When what is said is exactly what is meant. 53. This is the register people use when they're with friends, close acquaintances and co-workers, and family. A) Consultative. B) Casual. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Casual. 54. True or False:Pragmatic instruction is equally effective whether taught explicitly or implicitly. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 55. Linguistics focuses on A) The study of word languages. B) English phonetics. C) The rules and conventions of language. D) The scientific study of language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The scientific study of language. 56. In the context of pragmatics, what does 'epistemic context' refer to? A) Knowledge about the world. B) Social relationships between speakers. C) Location and timing of a word. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowledge about the world. 57. Speech acts is an utterance that a speaker makes to achieve an intended action. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. Speaker location is called pragmatically A) Deictic center. B) Location. C) Speach area. D) Proximal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deictic center. 59. The cognitive mechanism anchored to model users in their roles as speakers or producers of conversational contributions. It can be conventional or conversational. A) Implicature. B) Deixis. C) Context. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implicature. 60. Subfield of linguistics intended to study the use of the individuals' language with the most accurate level of appropriateness and correctness possible on their performance according to the context or situation where the language is used. A) Pragmatics. B) Semantics. C) All the above. D) None of the above. 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