Pragmatics

What is the meaning of Pragmatics?

• A study of obvious meaning

• A study of invisible meaning

• A study of how to create a sentence

• A study on how to interpreted a sentence.

'A set of words used in the same phrase or sentence' is the meaning of Co-Text?

• True

• False

"Will you crack open the window? I am getting hot" Which is the meaning of crack?

• Break

• Open

• Crash

• Destroy

What is the meaning of Deixis?

• To individuate objects/subjects

• Deictic Expression

• Codification of social status of the speaker and the addressee.

Deixis can be divided into 6 parts

• True

• False

"Bye, see you then! " Which Deictic Expression is this?

• Temporal Deixis

• Spatial Deixis

• Discourse Deixis

• Person Deixis

"I have never been there?"

• Person Deixis

• Social Deixis

• Spatial Deixis

What is an inference?

• The act of reffering to someone's opinion.

• The speaker is assuming that the listener already know.

• Information used by the listener to create a connection what is been said/meant

What is presupposition?

• A unique way of thinking.

• What a speaker assumes is true or known by a listener.

Constancy under negation test is a test to improve people's general.

• True

• False