This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Reference > Deixis In Discourse – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Deixis In Discourse Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. News reporter from Ha Tinh, Viet Nam reports of the following:Ha Tinh has witnessed a flood as a result of the heavy rain.Ha Tinh refers to? A) Person Deixis. B) Temporal Deixis. C) Spatial Deixis. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spatial Deixis. 2. Which sentence uses a relational social deixis? A) A. My teacher gave us homework. B) B. There is a book on the table. C) C. The weather is nice today. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. My teacher gave us homework. 3. ..... is a linguistic part of the environment in which a referring expression is used. A) Physical context. B) Co-text. C) Referent. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Co-text. 4. "now" is the proximal form of temporal deixis A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. "She is going to The Weekend concert, but she is stuck in a traffic."She refers to? A) Temporal Deixis. B) Personal Deixis. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personal Deixis. 6. "In the next part" refers to discourse deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Which of these is an example of discourse deixis? A) Over there. B) That part of the chapter. C) Right now. D) You and I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That part of the chapter. 8. Deictic expressions are most commonly used in written communication. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. Deictic expressions are also called indexicals. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. Identify the discoursal deixis in: "Finally, I want to say thank you to those who supported me." A) Finally. B) Those. C) Supported. D) I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Finally. 11. Person deixis operates on a basic of ..... part division exemplified by the pronouns. A) A.three. B) B.four. C) C.two. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A.three. 12. There are ..... types of context. A) 4. B) 3. C) 6. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 13. Provide an example of a definite description. A) The cat on the mat is sleeping. B) A cat is sitting on the mat. C) She went to the market. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The cat on the mat is sleeping. 14. Which type of deixis identifies participants in communication? A) Time deixis. B) Person deixis. C) Social deixis. D) Place deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Person deixis. 15. Another word for Deixis is ..... A) Deictic. B) Deixtal. C) Deixation. D) Depictic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deictic. 16. "I was watching the show when that scene happened." -The word "that" is a form of: A) Social deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Spatial deixis. D) Discourse deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discourse deixis. 17. What is the reference? A) It is the pointing function of some words. B) It is the relationship between two sentences. C) It is the utterance used to refer to something. D) It is the idea that people cooperate with each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is the utterance used to refer to something. 18. According to Yule, reference is an act in which a speaker, or writer, uses linguistic forms to enable a listener, or reader, to identify something. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. "Here" and "there" are examples of personal deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. "They made a great deal of profit last year."last year refers to ..... A) Spatial deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Person deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal deixis. 21. What does the term 'shared knowledge' refer to in communication? A) Awareness of physical context. B) Common understanding between participants. C) Recognition of social hierarchies. D) Knowledge of linguistic rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Common understanding between participants. 22. "Would you like to have dinner?"What's the dexis type of the word "you" ? A) Discourse deixis. B) Social deixis. C) Time deixis. D) Person deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Person deixis. 23. ..... have to be interpreted according to what the speaker has in mind. A) Spatial deixis. B) Deictic expressions. C) Speech acts. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deictic expressions. 24. Utterances using deictic expressions are easily understood by people who are not present. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 25. "I read that in the last paragraph." -What type of deixis is "that" in this sentence? A) Social. B) Discourse. C) Proximal. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discourse. 26. Which sentence contain the distal form of person deixis? A) You cannot defeat my close friend in the competition. B) Please tell him that I will get home late. C) Don't let me know you have any secrets. D) We have been waiting for you for many hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Please tell him that I will get home late. 27. What are the correct subcategories of social deixis? A) Relational and Actual deixis. B) Relational and Absolute deixis. C) Formal and Casual dexis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relational and Absolute deixis. 28. "This page" refers to something nearby, which makes it proximal deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 29. Choose the sentence that contains proximal deixis: A) This is delicious!. B) We are going to the park. C) I saw them yesterday. D) They went that way. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This is delicious!. 30. What is deixis in pragmatics? A) Person DeixisPlace DeixisTime DeixisDiscourse DeixisSocial Deixis. B) Emotional DeixisAbstract DeixisMood DeixisRelational Deixis. C) Conceptual DeixisSensory DeixisQuantity DeixisEvent Deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person DeixisPlace DeixisTime DeixisDiscourse DeixisSocial Deixis. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesDeixis In Discourse Quiz 1Deixis In Discourse Quiz 2Deixis In Discourse Quiz 3Deixis In Discourse Quiz 5Deixis In Discourse Quiz 6Anaphora And Cataphora QuizAnaphoric Reference QuizCataphoric Reference Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books