This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Speech Acts Theory – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Speech Acts Theory Quiz 11 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which type of utterance performs an action rather than just describing something? A) Constative utterance. B) Performative utterance. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Performative utterance. 2. It is the bringing about of effects on the audience by means of uttering the sentence, such effects being specialized to the circumstance of the utterance. A) Illocutionary Act. B) Indirect Speech Act. C) Locutionary Act. D) Perlocutionary Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perlocutionary Act. 3. You and your sibling were playing in your room. Suddenly, your mother entered the room, and she angrily said, "It's dirty here!" What is the best way to interpret what she said? A) She just wants to get angry. B) She does not feel well that is why she got angry. C) She wants you to clean the room. D) She feels happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She wants you to clean the room. 4. Friend: "I bet you 100 pesos that it will rain today." A) Expressive. B) Assertive. C) Declaration. D) Commissive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commissive. 5. Student: "I swear I did not cheat on the exam." A) Assertive. B) Declaration. C) Directive. D) Commissive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assertive. 6. These utterances function to make the speaker promise to do something in the future. A) Declarations. B) Expressives. C) Directives. D) Assertives. E) Commissives. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Commissives. 7. Sara Duterte is hereby appointed as the new President of the Philippines A) Declaration. B) Expressive. C) Commissive. D) Directive. E) Assertive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declaration. 8. Who proposed the Speech Act Theory? A) John Cena. B) John Austin. C) John Searle. D) John Earl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Austin. 9. Saying "I promise to help you tomorrow" is an example of: A) Perlocutionary act. B) Repair. C) Illocutionary act. D) Locutionary act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Illocutionary act. 10. Unless certain effect is achieved, the illocutionary act will not also be successfully achieved. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. I want to eat more cookie because I am still hungry A) Commissive. B) Assertive. C) Expressive. D) Directive. E) Declaration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expressive. 12. Answer it properly! A) Expressive. B) Commissive. C) Declaration. D) Assertive. E) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Directive. 13. As long as I am breathing, I will be here for you A) Directive. B) Assertive. C) Declaration. D) Expressive. E) Commissive. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Commissive. 14. Judge: "I sentence you to five years in prison." A) Commissive. B) Declaration. C) Directive. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Declaration. 15. It is performed through the communicative force of an utterance. A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illocutionary. 16. The people involved. A) Norms. B) Ends. C) Participants. D) Instrumentalities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Participants. 17. Which of the following statements shows an illocutionary speech act? A) "Our class will end in five minutes." (The exact words of the teacher). B) "Our class will end in five minutes." (The teacher's actual utterance). C) "Our class will end in five minutes." (The listeners respond by finishing their task right away.). D) "Our class will end in five minutes." (The teacher wants the class to finish the task before the bell rings). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Our class will end in five minutes." (The teacher wants the class to finish the task before the bell rings). 18. What does "setting" mean in the components of a speech act? A) Speaker and hearer. B) Physical aspect, what is happening in the space. C) What the speaker wants to achieve. D) Physical place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical aspect, what is happening in the space. 19. Promising, planning, vowing, and betting are examples of ..... ? A) Expressive. B) Directive. C) Commissive. D) Assertive. E) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commissive. 20. I draw better than you A) Declaration. B) Commissive. C) Assertive. D) Expressive. E) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assertive. 21. Indirect speech act:the correspondence between structure and function. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. "Hey! How are you?"Which speech act is shown in the example? A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locutionary. 23. This act happens with theutterance of a sound, a word, oreven a phrase as a natural unit of speech. A) Perlocutionary Act. B) Illocutionary Act. C) Locutionary Act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Locutionary Act. 24. Hi there! How was your weekend? A) Starting & ending conversations. B) Sympathising. C) Opinions. D) Giving good news. E) Positive responses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Starting & ending conversations. 25. A student laughs after hearing a classmate's funny remark. This laughter is considered a: A) Topic control. B) Perlocutionary act. C) Locutionary act. D) Illocutionary act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perlocutionary act. 26. How are things going? A) Inquiries. B) Giving bad news. C) Checking progress. D) Making arrangements. E) Suggestions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Checking progress. 27. What type of speech according to purpose is having the audience amused by some magic tricks? A) Entertain. B) Persuade. C) Inform. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entertain. 28. In this speech act, the speaker's utterance brings about change in new external situation (e.g. christening, marrying, resigning). A) Commissives. B) Assertives. C) Directives. D) Declarations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Declarations. 29. I voted for Jokowi in the last election. This sentence is an example of ..... A) Assertive language. B) Verdictive language. C) Commissive language. D) Performative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assertive language. 30. Which of the following are five types of speech acts according to Searle: A) CommissiveDirectiveDeclarativeExpressiveRogatives. B) CommissiveDirectiveDeclarativeExpressiveRepresentative. C) CommissiveBehabitivesDeclarativeExpressiveRepresentative. D) None of the above. 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