
Quiz on Pragmatics
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does pragmatics study?
The rules of grammar
The structure of words
Language use in context
The origin of language
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following best describes a speech act?
A grammatical sentence
An act performed via speaking
A narrative in storytelling
A metaphor in literature
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"Can you pass the salt?" is an example of which type of speech act?
Declarative
Commissive
Directive
Expressive
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the utterance "He is a bit slow," the speaker might actually mean "He is stupid." This is an example of:
Deixis
Implicature
Entailment
Reference
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which philosopher is most associated with the theory of speech acts?
Noam Chomsky
John Searle
Paul Grice
Ferdinand de Saussure
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is deixis concerned with?
Word meaning in dictionaries
Words that point to time, place, or person
Changes in sentence structures
Hidden meanings in utterances
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following is a temporal deictic expression?
Here
Yesterday
You
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