This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Pragmatic Inference – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Pragmatic Inference Quiz 5 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Study of meaning in language. A) Morphology. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantics. 2. Saying something that reduces a possible threat to another person's self-image A) Infrence. B) Speech act. C) Face-saving act. D) Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Face-saving act. 3. What is pragmatic? A) Pragmatic is the science of studying about meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure. B) Pragmatic is the science of studying about contextual meaning delivered by the speaker (writer) and interpreted by the listener (reader). C) Pragmatic is the science of studying about meaning of linguistic expressions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pragmatic is the science of studying about contextual meaning delivered by the speaker (writer) and interpreted by the listener (reader). 4. Using language to enable the hearer to identify something is called A) Reference. B) Inference. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reference. 5. Which of the following is NOT a component of "communicative competence" ? A) Pragmatic Knowledge. B) Discourse Knowledge. C) Sociolinguistic Knowledge. D) Phonetic Knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phonetic Knowledge. 6. Which of the following sentences relies on context for its meaning? A) Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. B) Can you pass the salt?. C) The Earth orbits the Sun. D) A triangle has three sides. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can you pass the salt?. 7. What does a reference concern? A) The usage of an academic paper. B) Clarifying what one means to say. C) How speakers use words to point or indicate persons, objects or concepts. D) An other answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How speakers use words to point or indicate persons, objects or concepts. 8. The Co-operative Principle is also known as ..... A) Paul's Rules. B) Grice's Maxims. C) Turn-taking. D) Topic shifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grice's Maxims. 9. Semantic meaning that involves or is arbitrary. A) Inference. B) Conceptual. C) Associative. D) Reference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Associative. 10. In pragmatics, what is an implicature? A) A direct statement of fact. B) An implied meaning that is not explicitly stated. C) A grammatical error. D) A type of metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An implied meaning that is not explicitly stated. 11. Can you read this?The word "can" is used with the function of a question, it is described as? A) Direct speech act. B) Indirect speech act. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct speech act. 12. A stretch of speech preceded and followed by silence or a change of speaker is called A) A sentence. B) An utterance. C) Discourse. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An utterance. 13. What is temporal deixis? A) The distinctions for person, spatial. B) Communicates distance and non-familiarity. Also, it has an ironic or humorous purpose. C) When speakers mark how close or distant something is perceived to be. D) Forms used to point to location in time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forms used to point to location in time. 14. The set of other words used in same phrase or sentence. A) Morphemes. B) Phonemes. C) Co-text. D) Physical context. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Co-text. 15. A. Can I borrow your Shakespeare?b.Yeah, it 's over there on the table.the infered reference '' Shakespeare" would be ..... A) Book. B) Person. C) A writer. D) Place. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Book. 16. In general, pragmatic "rules" and social conventions are universal across all of human language. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. Entailments differ from presuppositions in the fact that the truth of presuppositions is taken for granted and is not affected by negation. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 18. Which of the following is an example of a deictic expression? A) Yesterday. B) Happiness. C) Running. D) Quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yesterday. 19. What are examples of spatial deixis? A) Here, there, over here, over there. B) Me, you, him, they, she. C) Now, then, tonight, last week, yesterday. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Here, there, over here, over there. 20. What is the term for the phenomenon where the meaning of a sentence is dependent on the context in which it is used? A) Contextualization. B) Deixis. C) Pragmatic inference. D) Semantic shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deixis. 21. What is the least direct way to ask to borrow a pencil? A) "Give me a pencil.". B) "I need a pencil.". C) "Can I have a pencil?". D) "I forgot to bring a pencil.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "I forgot to bring a pencil.". 22. The time and place in which we encounter a linguistic expression. A) Physical context. B) Co-text. C) Semantic meaning. D) Associative meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical context. 23. Using words such as now or tomorrow as a way of "pointing" to a time with language A) Spaital deixis. B) Person deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temporal deixis. 24. An assumption by a speaker/writer about what is true or already known by the listener/reader A) Infrence. B) Antecedent. C) Cataphora. D) Presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Presupposition. 25. Is pragmatic similar to syntax and semantic? A) True. B) False. 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