This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Reference > Deixis In Discourse – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Deixis In Discourse Quiz 5 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Deictic expressions are also called indexicals. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Identify the discoursal deixis in: "Finally, I want to say thank you to those who supported me." A) Finally. B) Those. C) Supported. D) I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Finally. 3. Person deixis operates on a basic of ..... part division exemplified by the pronouns. A) A.three. B) B.four. C) C.two. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A.three. 4. There are ..... types of context. A) 3. B) 4. C) 5. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 5. Provide an example of a definite description. A) The cat on the mat is sleeping. B) A cat is sitting on the mat. C) She went to the market. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The cat on the mat is sleeping. 6. Which type of deixis identifies participants in communication? A) Social deixis. B) Person deixis. C) Time deixis. D) Place deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Person deixis. 7. Another word for Deixis is ..... A) Deictic. B) Deixtal. C) Deixation. D) Depictic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deictic. 8. "I was watching the show when that scene happened." -The word "that" is a form of: A) Spatial deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Discourse deixis. D) Social deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Discourse deixis. 9. What is the reference? A) It is the pointing function of some words. B) It is the utterance used to refer to something. C) It is the relationship between two sentences. D) It is the idea that people cooperate with each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the utterance used to refer to something. 10. According to Yule, reference is an act in which a speaker, or writer, uses linguistic forms to enable a listener, or reader, to identify something. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. "Here" and "there" are examples of personal deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. "They made a great deal of profit last year."last year refers to ..... A) Spatial deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Person deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal deixis. 13. What does the term 'shared knowledge' refer to in communication? A) Awareness of physical context. B) Common understanding between participants. C) Recognition of social hierarchies. D) Knowledge of linguistic rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Common understanding between participants. 14. Anaphora is A) The use of a word or a group of words which refer back to another part of the text. B) The use of a word or a group of words which refer forward to another part of the text. C) The relationship that holds between a word or expression and the objects it refers to. D) The relationships among words having the same reference within a text, contributing to textual cohesion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The use of a word or a group of words which refer back to another part of the text. 15. "Would you like to have dinner?"What's the dexis type of the word "you" ? A) Person deixis. B) Discourse deixis. C) Time deixis. D) Social deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person deixis. 16. ..... have to be interpreted according to what the speaker has in mind. A) Spatial deixis. B) Deictic expressions. C) Speech acts. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deictic expressions. 17. Utterances using deictic expressions are easily understood by people who are not present. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. "I read that in the last paragraph." -What type of deixis is "that" in this sentence? A) Discourse. B) Temporal. C) Social. D) Proximal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discourse. 19. Which sentence contain the distal form of person deixis? A) Don't let me know you have any secrets. B) We have been waiting for you for many hours. C) Please tell him that I will get home late. D) You cannot defeat my close friend in the competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Please tell him that I will get home late. 20. What are the correct subcategories of social deixis? A) Relational and Actual deixis. B) Relational and Absolute deixis. C) Formal and Casual dexis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relational and Absolute deixis. 21. "This page" refers to something nearby, which makes it proximal deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. Choose the sentence that contains proximal deixis: A) They went that way. B) This is delicious!. C) I saw them yesterday. D) We are going to the park. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) This is delicious!. 23. What is deixis in pragmatics? A) Person DeixisPlace DeixisTime DeixisDiscourse DeixisSocial Deixis. B) Emotional DeixisAbstract DeixisMood DeixisRelational Deixis. C) Conceptual DeixisSensory DeixisQuantity DeixisEvent Deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person DeixisPlace DeixisTime DeixisDiscourse DeixisSocial Deixis. 24. She opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out. Her throat, like her whole body, was frozen with fright. A) Personal (distal)-temporal (distal). B) Personal (proximal)-temporal (distal). C) Personal (distal)-temporal (proximal). D) Spatial-spatial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personal (distal)-temporal (distal). 25. "here" , "there" , "now" , and "then" are Spacial Deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. 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