This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Pragmatic Inference – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatic Inference Quiz 2 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A. Where is the cheese sandwich sitting?b.He's over there by the window.The infered referent would be ..... A) Thing. B) Person. C) Place. D) Writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Person. 2. If you are a customer then the cashier asks, 'How are you today?' Do you immediately go into depth about your health issues, mood swings, relationship status, and everything else that's going on in your life? A) Yes-definitely. B) No-of course not!. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No-of course not!. 3. The macrostructure of children's narratives includes big features like syntax. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. It is an act by which a speaker (or writer) uses language to enable a listener (or reader) to identify something. A) Inference. B) Speech act. C) Presuposition. D) Reference. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reference. 5. "SHE wanted to borrow some money." SHE is: A) Person deixis. B) Spacial deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person deixis. 6. Which of the following best describes the study of pragmatics? A) The structure of sentences. B) The meaning of words. C) The use of language in context. D) The history of language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The use of language in context. 7. Illocutionary act is the basic act of utterance or producing ameaningful expression. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. For the following indirect speech acts of the utterance"You're welcome to come to my party next week"name the type of the implicit speech act of the utterance A) Representative. B) Directive. C) Commisive. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commisive. 9. Which of the following is NOT a part of non-verbal "Pragmatic Knowledge" ? A) Prosody. B) Body Language. C) Gestures. D) Facial Expressions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prosody. 10. What is pragmatics? A) Communicates distance and non-familiarity. Also, it has an ironic or humorous purpose. B) When speakers mark how close or distant something is perceived to be. C) Studies how people make sense of each other linguistically. D) Forms used to point to location in time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Studies how people make sense of each other linguistically. 11. The relation between a linguistic expression and its expresser is a part of pragmatics. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Saying something that represents a threat to another person's self-image A) Infrence. B) Face-threatening act. C) Face-saving act. D) Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Face-threatening act. 13. The need to be connected, to belong, to be a member of a group A) Negative Face. B) Face-threatening act. C) Face-saving act. D) Positive Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive Face. 14. '' I am going to buy a present THERE" . THERE is: A) Spacial deixis. B) Person deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spacial deixis. 15. What is a speech act in the context of pragmatics? A) A grammatical error. B) A type of sentence. C) An action performed via speaking. D) A form of politeness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An action performed via speaking. 16. Sometimes, what we DON'T say is more important that what we DO say. This is known as ..... A) Implying by omission. B) Intertextuality. C) Synthetic personalisation. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implying by omission. 17. Identify the sentence that uses inference: A) The sky is blue. B) She must be at work because her car is not in the driveway. C) I have a cat. D) The book is on the table. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She must be at work because her car is not in the driveway. 18. Which of the following best describes inference in pragmatics? A) Guessing the meaning of unknown words. B) Drawing conclusions based on context and prior knowledge. C) Understanding grammar rules. D) Translating text from one language to another. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drawing conclusions based on context and prior knowledge. 19. What might be an example of a child who is struggling with non-verbal pragmatic knowledge? A) A child who talks at too high of a volume. B) A child holds eye-contact well in a conversation. C) A child who constantly stands too close when talking with friends. D) A child who speaks to their teacher in "too-casual" of a register. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A child who constantly stands too close when talking with friends. 20. Using words such as here or there as a way of "pointing" to a location with language A) Spaital deixis. B) Person deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spaital deixis. 21. Using words such as this or here as a way of "pointing" with language A) Semantics. B) Deixis (deictic expressions). C) Physical text. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deixis (deictic expressions). 22. Which of the following best describes the concept of 'face' in pragmatics? A) The literal meaning of words. B) The social value a person claims for themselves in a conversation. C) The grammatical structure of a sentence. D) The phonetic articulation of sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The social value a person claims for themselves in a conversation. 23. Which of the following is an example of a speech act where the speaker's intention is not explicitly stated? A) Direct speech act. B) Indirect speech act. C) Literal speech act. D) Explicit speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect speech act. 24. What does the semantic relation of the entailment refer to? A) It references something in the near future. B) One sentence cannot be true without the other. C) It needs to make sense in the sentence. D) The sentence has a specific meaning that the speaker needs to decode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One sentence cannot be true without the other. 25. The study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning in language is known as: A) Syntax. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Morphology. 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