Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis (UAL)

Pragmatics is the study of the choices you make when you use_________, the reasons for those choices and the effects that those choices convey (David Crystal 2014).

• Choices

• Language

• A word

• Structure

According to Leech (1983), Semantics and Pragmatics _________.

• Oppose

• Complement

• Interfere

• Presuppose

What type of presupposition do we find in 'They missed the bus again'?

• Structural presupposition

• Counter-factual presupposition

• Lexical presupposition

• Non-factive presupposition

Name the underlined part: 'Let me just tell you this about her: she is a very efficient worker'.

• Anaphora

• Deixis

• Cataphora

• Presuppositon

Speech Act: 'Congratulations!'

• Directive

• Declarative

• Commissive

• Expressive

'We will not do it again.'

• Commissive

• Declarative

• Directive

• Expressive

Jane: 'Did you visit Rome and Florence?'

Bill: 'I visited Florence.'

• generalized conversational implicature, because you have to analyze all the context

• explicature

• anaphora

• hedge

'When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first.'

• Anaphora

• Zero anaphora or ellipsis

• Reinforcement

• Conversational implicature

'I am not here now.'

• Anaphora

• Cataphora

• Deictic projection

• Ellipsis

'Cool before serving.'

• Co-text

• Cataphora

• Anaphora

• Ellipsis