Pragmatics

Choose the correct option.

Pragmatics is ...

• the language study of speaker meaning

• the language study of words meaning

•  the language study of texts and conversations meaning

Put the missing word in the gaps.

 _______ - either the physical _______  or the linguistic _______  (co-text) in which words are used.

“a key” to a door - this is the example of...

“a key” to solve the problem - this is the example of

What are the types of deictic expressions?

• Personal, time, space

• Person, spatial, temporal

• Person, time, spatial

Mr. Kawasaki (motorcycle company) - this is the example of...

• reference

• inference

• interference

We saw Shakespeare last week. - this is the example of...

• reference

• inference

Anaphora means...

• referring back

• referring forward

• referring toward

• all of the above

Is the statement correct?

Antecedent is the last mention of someone or something later referred to via anaphora.

• Yes

• No

Put the missing word.  

Cataphoric reference often begins with a _____ and a descriptive noun phrase later.