Round 1 - Review Day

What kind of implicature is employed in the bold sentence below?

Speaker A: Do you like Rosie?

Speaker B: Well, she has a nice husband.

• Particularized

• Scalar

• Generalized

• Conventional

Identify the type of presupposition of the sentence in italics:

When did you buy the bike? -> You bought the bike

• Structural

• Existential

• Factive

• Lexical

Which utterance below employs positive politeness strategy?

• What about looking on the big map to find the zoo?

• Excuse me. Where is the zoo, please?

• I’m sorry if I bother you, but I am looking for the zoo.

• Do you happen to know the way to the zoo?

What maxim is flouted in the following conversations:

Speaker A: What’s the weather prediction?

Speaker B: It's cold, very cold. And I think you'd better bring your coat and your scà. Make sure that you're not gonna get cold.

• Quantity

• Relation

• Quality

• Manner

Identify the type of speech act of the utterance of the Prime Minister:

Minister of Education: ‘I resign.’

Prime Minister: ‘You’ll be free from tomorrow.’

• commissive

• declaration

• directive

• representative

Name the type of deixis for the word in italics

Her painting is brilliant – that’s why it was sold for million dollars.

• personal deixis

• spatial deixis

• temporal deixis

• discourse deixis

An anaphoric reference refers to the subject that is introduced …… in the sentence.

• later

• next

• earlier

• before

What isn't included in positive politeness strategy?

• friendliness

• using hedges

• using colloquialism or slang

• using first name or in-group name

Locutionary acts refer to

• The intention the speaker has when saying or writing something

• The act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words

• What the listener is expected to do.

• The effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act

This force refers to the type of function a speaker intends to accomplish in the course of producing an utterance. What is this?

• locutionary

• illocutionary

• perlocutionary

• IFIDs