This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Speech Acts Theory – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Speech Acts Theory Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Illocutionary: A) Is related to the social function that the utterance or the written text has. B) Is related to the action function that the utterance or the written text has. C) Is related to the functional function that the utterance or the written text has. D) Is related to the social function that the utterance or the spoken text has. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is related to the social function that the utterance or the written text has. 2. Which of the following is the response or effect on the listener after an utterance? A) Locutionary act. B) Illocutionary act. C) Perlocutionary act. D) Topic control. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perlocutionary act. 3. "I believe everything is fine. However, you need to focus on your pronunciation!" A) Repair. B) Termination. C) Topic Control. D) Restriction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repair. 4. What type of speech act is this? "Please don't let the door open, " the speaker requests that the door remain closed. A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) Prolocutionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illocutionary. 5. "Please clean the house." This utterance falls under ..... type of speech act. A) Locutionary Act. B) Illocutionary Act. C) Perlocutionary Act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locutionary Act. 6. It refers to the social function or the speaker's intention of what is said. A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illocutionary. 7. What is socially acceptable, rules of interaction and interpretation. A) Participants. B) Key. C) Act Sequence. D) Norms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Norms. 8. The act of making a meaningful utterance which can be understood. A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locutionary. 9. Which of the three are goals on Speech Acts in English Language Learning? A) Productive Learning. B) Productive Development. C) Production Development. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Productive Development. 10. The speaker expresses his/her feelings or emotional reactions. A) Assertive. B) Directive. C) Commissive. D) Expressive. E) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expressive. 11. It is a physical utterance by the speaker. A) Illocutionary Act. B) Locutionary Act. C) Perlocutionary act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Locutionary Act. 12. No one makes better dessert than my mom. A) Assertive. B) Directive. C) Commissive. D) Expressive. E) Declaration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assertive. 13. (1:43) "What? ..... Issy, I really don't know how you did that. It's crazy." Speech act type is ..... A) Expressives. B) Directives. C) Representatives. D) Commissives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expressives. 14. Pertains to the actual act of utterances, what did the person say, NOT what the person mean. A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locutionary. 15. The form of style or channel the speech is being given. A) Participants. B) Key. C) Instrumentalities. D) Norms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Instrumentalities. 16. John Searle further developed the speech acts taxonomy from J. L. Austin's original theory. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. The theory introduced by J.L. Austin that explains utterances as actions is called: A) Communicative Strategy Theory. B) Speech Act Theory. C) Conversation Analysis. D) Pragmatics Strategy Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speech Act Theory. 18. Resulting Act of what is said or the product. A) Locutionary Act. B) Perlocutionary Act. C) Illocutionary Act. D) Performatives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perlocutionary Act. 19. What are the two illocutionary points of indirect speech acts? A) Primary illocutionary point (must be inferred), Secondary illocutionary point (apparent at surface level). B) Initial illocutionary point, Final illocutionary point. C) Hidden illocutionary point, Obvious illocutionary point. D) Invisible illocutionary point, Visible illocutionary point. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary illocutionary point (must be inferred), Secondary illocutionary point (apparent at surface level). 20. You don't love me anymore, I will never disturb you A) Assertive. B) Directive. C) Commissive. D) Expressive. E) Declaration. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Declaration. 21. I'm not happy with the quality of this product; it's not what I expected. A) Offers. B) Requests. C) Complaints. D) Small talk. E) Checking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complaints. 22. What do indirect speech acts rely on according to the text? A) Historical events, Cultural norms, Religious beliefs. B) Written documents, Official statements, Legal agreements. C) Visual cues, Body language, Facial expressions. D) Mutually shared background information, Linguistic and nonlinguistic knowledge, Rationality and inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutually shared background information, Linguistic and nonlinguistic knowledge, Rationality and inference. 23. Consider the following conversation! A: "Where is your address?" B: "Rose Street number 10" . Based on the conversation above, it belongs to ..... A) Maxim of Quality. B) Quantity Maxim. C) Maxim of Quality. D) Maxim of Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantity Maxim. 24. These are utterances that function as commands or requests to make someone do something. A) Assertives. B) Directives. C) Commissives. D) Expressives. E) Declarations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directives. 25. It is the actual act of utterance. A) Perlocutionary Act. B) Illocutionary Act. C) Locutionary Act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Locutionary Act. Next →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSpeech Acts Theory Quiz 2Speech Acts Theory Quiz 3Speech Acts Theory Quiz 4Speech Acts Theory Quiz 5Speech Acts Theory Quiz 6Speech Acts Theory Quiz 7Speech Acts Theory Quiz 8Speech Acts Theory Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books