Pragmatics

Topic 1_Pragmatics

by Group 1

Multiple Choice

_______ is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker/ writer and interpreted by listener/reader.

• Syntax

• Pragmatics

• Semantics

Multiple Select

Choose the correct types of context.

• Linguistic context

• Temporal context

• Epistemic context

• Physical context

• Discoursal context

Multiple Choice

Calendar time and clock time are forms of deictic temporal reference.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A relationship between parts of a language and things outside in the language (in the world)

• Reference

• Inference

• Context

• Deixis

Multiple Choice

Cataphora reference is the use of a word or a group of words which refer back to another part of the text.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The sentences that stand in an implicational relation, where the truth of the first guarantees the truth of the second.

• Presuppositions

• Entailments

Multiple Choice

The assumptions the speaker makes about what the hearer is likely to accept without challenge.

• Presuppositions

• Entailments

Multiple Choice

Entailments depend on sentence meaning, not the context in which the sentence is used.

• True

• False