This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > 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) It's too loud, turn it off!. B) Get that garbage out!. C) Would you mind open the door for me?. D) Hey! Take that out!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Would you mind open the door for me?. 2. There are four maxims that Grice proposed, i.e ..... A) Polite, quantity, relevance, quality. B) Quantity, quality, relevance, manner. C) Irrelevant, manner, quality, quantity. D) Manner, quantity, relevance, incapacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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) Relevance. B) Manner. C) Quantity. D) Quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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) Relevance. D) Quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quality. 5. Maxim of manner is related to the ..... A) The way you express yourself. B) Content of what you say. C) Literal meaning of our words. D) Obscurity of expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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) Keep the meeting going. B) Postpone the meeting. C) Ignore what he said. D) Change the meeting earlier than the schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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) Quantity. B) Quality. C) Relevance. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relevance. Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesConversation Analysis QuizConversation Skills QuizImplicature Exercises QuizMaxims Of Conversation QuizPoliteness And Face QuizPoliteness Strategies Spoken English QuizPoliteness Strategies QuizPoliteness Theory QuizPragmatic Inference QuizPragmatic Markers In Conversation QuizSpeech Acts Context QuizSpeech Acts Theory QuizSpeech Acts QuizSpeech Strategies QuizTurn Taking In Conversation Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books