PRAGMATICS - GROUP 1 - DEIXIS, REFERENCE, INFERENCE

News reporter from Ha Tinh, Viet Nam reports of the following:

Ha Tinh has witnessed a flood as a result of the heavy rain.

Ha Tinh refers to?

• Person Deixis

• Temporal Deixis

• Spatial Deixis

• None of them

"Whenever I see Kristen, she wears that same coat."

She and that refers to?

• Temporal and Person Deixis

• Person and Spatial Deixis

• Temporal and Spatial Deixis

• Person Deixis

I’ll put it here later, ok?”

I, here and later refer to?

• Temporal Deixis

• Person Deixis

• Spatial Deixis

• All of them

“here”, “there”, “now”, and “then” are Spacial Deixis.

• true

• false

“Come home!” is used to mark movement towards the speaker.

• true

• false

Which is temporal

deictic expressions?

• today

• there

• you, I

What is the potential ambiguity concerning the pronoun 'we'?

• There is an exclusive 'we' => speaker plus others, excluding the

  addressee

• An inclusive 'we' => speaker and addressee involved.

• Both

...... is a linguistic part of the environment in which a referring expression is used.

• Physical context

• Co-text

• Referent

According to Yule, reference is an act in which a speaker, or writer, uses linguistic forms to enable a listener, or reader, to identify something.

• true

• false

Attributive use is regarding to a specific person who is referred to, although his/her name or some other description is not used.

• true

• false