This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Pragmatics Context And Implicature – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatics Context And Implicature Quiz 1 (8 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one of this following expression showing a politeness ..... A) Would you mind open the door for me?. B) Get that garbage out!. C) It's too loud, turn it off!. D) Hey! Take that out!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Would you mind open the door for me?. 2. There are four maxims that Grice proposed, i.e ..... A) Quantity, quality, relevance, manner. B) Irrelevant, manner, quality, quantity. C) Manner, quantity, relevance, incapacity. D) Polite, quantity, relevance, quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantity, quality, relevance, manner. 3. Consider the following conversation:A:Do you have any pets? B:Yes, I have a dog Maxim that used in the conversation above is ..... A) Manner. B) Quantity. C) Quality. D) Relevance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantity. 4. Don't say what you believe to be false and don't say that for which you lack adequate evidence. These statements refer to the maxim of ..... A) Manner. B) Quantity. C) Quality. D) Relevance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quality. 5. Maxim of manner is related to the ..... A) Obscurity of expression. B) Literal meaning of our words. C) The way you express yourself. D) Content of what you say. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The way you express yourself. 6. Implicature denotes either the act of meaning or implying one thing by saying something else, or the object of that act. The statement above is ..... A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. A:Sir, you have a meeting in 30 minutes B:I don't feel so wellWhat did B expect A to do ..... A) Postpone the meeting. B) Keep the meeting going. C) Change the meeting earlier than the schedule. D) Ignore what he said. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Postpone the meeting. 8. A:Are you coming to the party tonight? B:I have to babysit my cousinThe maxim that is used in this conversation is maxim ..... A) Manner. B) Relevance. C) Quality. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relevance. Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesConversation Analysis QuizConversation Skills QuizImplicature Exercises QuizMaxims Of Conversation QuizPoliteness And Face QuizPoliteness Strategies Spoken English QuizPoliteness Strategies QuizPoliteness Theory Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books