UNIT 2 - QUESTIONNAIRE

1. What is Deixis?

• Refer to a specific time, place, or person in context.

• 1. Refer to a specific time and place.

• Refer to a specific person.

• 1. Refer to a specific play.

2. An indexical expression.

• 1. Here, this, and there.

• 2. There, this.

• 1. Such as today, that, here, utterance, and you.

• 1. Yesterday, today and there.

3. Choose the appropriate example about Presupposition.

• 1. Maria quit dancing

  -Presupposition (Maria used to dance)

• 1. Carlos reread the Lord of the Rings books

  -Presupposition (Carlos is reading for 1st time the book of the Lord of Rings)

• 1. Jane no longer writes fiction.

  -Presupposition (Jane never writes fiction books)

4.Select 2 correct ideas about Presupposition

• It is related to syntax structures

• Refers to something that is not explicitly stated in a  sentence.

• The presuppositions must be true based on the contents of the sentence

• Refers to the phrase structures of sentences

5.Pick out the referring expressions that you can find in a sentence.

• Articles; conjunctions; verbs

• Proper nouns;definite noun phrases; indefinite nouns phrases and pronouns

• Punctuation- grammar- vocabulary

• • Verbs; articles; punctuation; pronouns

6. What is anaphora?

• An assumed-to-be-true fact upon which an utterance is delivered.

• 1. A linguistic form to enable a listener or reader to identify something that depends on the speaker’s intentions. 

• 1. The use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context.

7. What is entailment?

• 1. A relationship between one sentence or set of sentences, the entailing expressions, and another sentence.

• 1. Something that is not explicitly stated in a sentence, but is true.

• 1. A type of generative grammar represented by phrase structure rules.

8. Select three Characteristics of entailments?

• 1. Logical consequences following from what is asserted in the utterance.

• 1. depend on sentence meaning, not the context. 

• 1. speech changes depending on the context 

• 1. Involves the use of determiners

Identify what the following sentence "Maria has a class absence" might imply.

• María didn’t complete a homework.

• Maria has all of her assistants

• Maria did not enter classes

• Maria has all of her assistants

Choose 3 factors that influence to decipher the meaning through the implicature.

• 1. Politeness, Irony and Brevity.

• 1. Knowledge, Behavior and Irony.

• 1. Education, Politeness and Knowledge.

• 1. Background, Brevity and Behavior.