Explaining the Impact of Social Factors

Multiple Choice

1. The purpose of the Politeness Principle is to maintain social equilibrium and friendly relations

• FALSE

• TRUE

Multiple Choice

2. What are the 6 politeness maxims?

• A. Tact, Generosity, Approbation, Modesty, Agreement, Sympathy

• B. Generosity, Respect, Agreement, Modesty, Sympathy

• C. Tact, Generosity, Approbation, Modesty, Cooperation, Sympathy

Multiple Choice

3. What maxim does the following statement belong to? 

“The performance was great!”

• A. Agreement

• B. Modesty

• C. Approbation

• D. Sympathy

Multiple Choice

4.  Choose the correct answers: What does tact maxim refer to?

There are two correct options.

• A. maximize the benefit to other and minimaze the cost to other.

• B. maximize the cost to self.

• C. minimize antipathy between self and other

Multiple Choice

6. What is the model that explains the impact of social factors on people's use of language?

• Face model

• Fase model

• Personality model

Multiple Choice

7. Who proposed the face model of politeness?

• Levinson  and Mark

• Brown and Levinson 

• Brown and Hume

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8. According to Brown and Levinson, what does the term "face" mean?

• A. The public self-image that every member wants to claim for himself.

• B. The public relevance that everyone wants to achieve.

• C. The prestige of a person.

Multiple Choice

9. Positive face reflects every person's need that his or her self-image is appreciated and approved of.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

10. Negative face reflects every person's basic claim to territories, personal preserves, rights to non-distraction.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How many variables are there to word a face-threatening?

• 5

  (P, D, R, T, A)

• 2

  (P, D)

• 3

  (P, D, R)

• 4

  (P, D, I, R)

Multiple Choice

12. The degree of imposition is labeled with…

• DI

• I

• R

Multiple Choice

The variables described by Brown and Lewis are:

• A. Power, distance-closeness and degree of imposition.

• B. Power, rank of utterance, imposition.

• C. Power, closeness and degree of position.

Multiple Choice

14. The greater the power differential, the greater the distance.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

15.  The greater imposition, the more careful and more indirect the speaker will be.

• True

• False