Deixis In Discourse Quiz 4 (25 MCQs)

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1. Discourse deixis refers to things in the environment, like "behind the curtain."
2. Deixis is a term that refers to pointing via language.
3. Which is temporaldeictic expressions?
4. What type of reference refers to the success of the act of reference that does not depend on the individual features, only the class?
5. Now nobody could escape to the West; East Germans were truly prisoners of their own country. The Berlin Wall separated families and ruined people's lives. The word is refering to .....
6. "I'll do that later." -What type of deixis is "later" ?
7. Which sentence contains social deixis?
8. ..... reference is the use of a word or a group of words which refer back to another part of the text.
9. "Whenever I see John, he wears that same coat." He and That refers to?
10. "Whenever I see John, he wears that same coat"He and That refers to?
11. Let's go to the cinema.
12. "Let's go there after lunch." -Identify the deixis in "there."
13. Provide an example of time deixis.
14. "Come home!" is used to mark movement towards the speaker.
15. Which of the following is an example of social deixis?
16. The reference appears to work between all members of a community who share an unfamiliar language and culture.
17. What does social deixis reflect?
18. News reporter from Ha Tinh, Viet Nam reports of the following:Ha Tinh has witnessed a flood as a result of the heavy rain.Ha Tinh refers to?
19. Which sentence uses a relational social deixis?
20. ..... is a linguistic part of the environment in which a referring expression is used.
21. "now" is the proximal form of temporal deixis
22. "She is going to The Weekend concert, but she is stuck in a traffic."She refers to?
23. "In the next part" refers to discourse deixis.
24. Which of these is an example of discourse deixis?
25. Deictic expressions are most commonly used in written communication.