This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Speech Acts Theory – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Speech Acts Theory Quiz 2 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which speech act is designed to make the other person do what you want them to do? A) Commissives. B) Directives. C) Representatives. D) Declarations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directives. 2. "I appreciate your help so much! We couldn't have done it without you." What type of illocutionary act is being used? A) Representative/Assertive. B) Expressive. C) Declaration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expressive. 3. What category of speech act is this? "The earth is flat" A) Assertives. B) Directives. C) Commissives. D) Expressives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assertives. 4. While cleaning, Alex called his friend's attention saying "You can actually give me a hand with this." A) Directive. B) Commissive. C) Expressive. D) Representative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Directive. 5. What type of Speech Act according to Austin is it when a woman turns down a proposal from her boyfriend? A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perlocutionary. 6. What speech act category involves the speaker committing to a future action? A) Expressive. B) Assertive. C) Commissive. D) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commissive. 7. "Don't forget to feed my pet everyday!" . What type of illocutionary act is being used? A) Commisives. B) Directives. C) Declaration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Declaration. 8. What are speech acts? A) These are actions performed. B) These are actions performed by the listener. C) These are actions performed by requesting something. D) These are actions performed by the speaker via an utterance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) These are actions performed by the speaker via an utterance. 9. Which function does the utterance "We find the defendant guilty" said by Jury Foreman show? A) Declarative. B) Representative. C) Expressive. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declarative. 10. You say "Sorry for forgetting your birthday." What type of speech act is this? A) Assertive. B) Commissive. C) Expressive. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expressive. 11. Which of the following is an example of a commissive speech act, according to Searle's classification? A) "I apologize for my mistake.". B) "I bet you can't solve this puzzle.". C) "I promise to help you with your project.". D) "I believe it will rain tomorrow.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "I promise to help you with your project.". 12. Communicative competence is essential for a speaker to be able to use and understand speech acts. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. The speech event which rules apply? A) Purpose of communication. B) Same language variety. C) Sociolinguistic rules. D) Grammar rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sociolinguistic rules. 14. Here are Verdictive verbs, except ..... A) Thank. B) Accuse. C) Excuse. D) Recharge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recharge. 15. The basketball referee suddenly exclaimed "Out!" A) Declarative. B) Representative. C) Expressive. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declarative. 16. In speech act theory, how many types of felicity conditions are there? A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 17. It is the intention that a speaker has. A) Locutionary Act. B) Illocutionary Act. C) Perlocutionary Act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illocutionary Act. 18. "I wonder whether you got any milk." A) Direct speech act. B) Indirect speech act. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect speech act. 19. Jenna, during a brainstorming activity with her group, expressed "Share-share din ng idea pag may time." A) Declarative. B) Directive. C) Commissive. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directive. 20. An illocutionary act where the speaker expresses belief about the truth of a proposition A) Assertive. B) Declaration. C) Expressive. D) Commissive. E) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assertive. 21. A philosopher of language and the developer of the Speech Act Theory. A) Noam Chomsky. B) B.F. Skinner. C) Jerome Bruner. D) J. L. Austin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) J. L. Austin. 22. When someone says, "It's cold in here" and simply states a fact, this is an example of: A) Locutionary act. B) Illocutionary act. C) Perlocutionary act. D) Termination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locutionary act. 23. Locutionary acts are performed with intentionality. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. "Good to see you. Anyway, I came to visit you because I want to personally offer an apology for what I did yesterday." A) Termination. B) Nomination. C) Topic shifting. D) Repair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repair. 25. You have a wonderful voice but I can sing better A) Assertive. B) Directive. C) Commissive. D) Expressive. E) Declaration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assertive. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSpeech Acts Theory Quiz 1Speech 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