Pragmatics & Discourse

Which of these is NOT a feature of pragmatics?

• cultural references

• use of humour and irony

• assumptions about audiences

• implication and inference

• cohesion

The Co-operative Principle is also known as...

• Paul's Rules

• Grice's Maxims

• turn-taking

• topic shifting

Sometimes, what we DON'T say is more important that what we DO say. This is known as...

• implying by omission

• intertextuality

• synthetic personalisation

• irony

What is irony?

• rain on your wedding day

• a free ride when you've already paid

• the good advice that you just didn't take

• saying the opposite of what you really mean

What is meant by the idea of a 'narrator' in language?

• a fictional 'teller'; the apparent voice behind the text, created by the writer

• a fictional 'receiver'; the person that the text appears to be aimed at

• the real person who created the text

• the real reader or listener

Who coined the phrase 'synthetic personalisation'?

• Drew & Heritage

• Cameron

• Grice

• Fairclough

What is prosody?

• computer-mediated communication

• use of bold or italics

• stress, intonation and emphasis in spoken language

• use of emoticons

What does 'discourse' refer to in the study of language?

• the vocabulary of a text

• the structure, organisation and layout of a text

• the meaning behind the vocabulary of a text

• the mode of a text

The use of explicit linguistic devices to signal relations between sentences and parts of texts is known as...

• anaphora

• cataphora

• ellipsis

• cohesion

Which of the following is NOT a technique used for cohesion?

• pronouns

• adjectives

• determiners

• conjunctions