WorksheetsPragmatics and Discourse Analysis (UAL)
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 19mins
Pragmatics is the study of the choices you make when you use_________, the reasons for those choices and the effects that those choices convey (David Crystal 2014).
Choices
Language
A word
Structure
According to Leech (1983), Semantics and Pragmatics _________.
Oppose
Complement
Interfere
Presuppose
What type of presupposition do we find in 'They missed the bus again'?
Structural presupposition
Counter-factual presupposition
Lexical presupposition
Non-factive presupposition
Name the underlined part: 'Let me just tell you this about her: she is a very efficient worker'.
Anaphora
Deixis
Cataphora
Presuppositon
Speech Act: 'Congratulations!'
Directive
Declarative
Commissive
Expressive
'We will not do it again.'
Commissive
Declarative
Directive
Expressive
Jane: 'Did you visit Rome and Florence?'
Bill: 'I visited Florence.'
generalized conversational implicature, because you have to analyze all the context
explicature
anaphora
hedge
'When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first.'
Anaphora
Zero anaphora or ellipsis
Reinforcement
Conversational implicature
'I am not here now.'
Anaphora
Cataphora
Deictic projection
Ellipsis
'Cool before serving.'
Co-text
Cataphora
Anaphora
Ellipsis
Classify the hedge: 'As you probably know, I am terrified with bugs.'
Quantity hedge
Relation hedge
Manner hedge
Quality hedge
What conditions allows this expression to be appropriate?: 'I sentence you six months to prison'.
Reality
Felicity
Informative
Cooperative
The ideational function of the language implies ______.
Creating well-formed and appropriate texts.
Taking part in social interaction.
Taking part in events.
Representing thought and experience in a coherent way.
'Do you have to stand in front of the TV?'
Question
Indirect speech act
Speech act
Direct speech act
What conversational style uses a slower rate, expects longer pauses between turns, do not overlap, and avoid interruption or completion of the other's turn?
High involvement style
High considerateness style
Adjacency pairs
Explicature
A person's positive face is the need to be accepted, even liked, by others, to be treated as a member the same group. A person's negative face is the need to be independent, to have freedom of action, and not to be imposed by others. What do I use saying: How do you do? instead of What's up?
Negative politeness strategy
Positive politeness strategy
Alienation
Camaraderie
According to Grice (1975), any conversational contribution must fullfill the cooperative principle, which includes 'being relevant' as its maxim of _______.
Quantity
Quality
Relation
Manner
When you avoid ambiguity you are fulfilling Grice's maxim of _________.
Quality
Quantity
Relation
Manner
Read the joke. We find incongruity-resolution in this conversation thanks to ________.
Cooperation
Disagreement
Agreement
Correct spelling
Read the joke. Is reference based on an objectively correct (versus incorrect) naming?
No, it is based on some locally successful (versus unsuccessful) choices.
No, it is incongruent.
Yes, it is based strictly on words and syntax.
No, it is based strictly on words and syntax.
2. What is inference?
The concept of how all communication relies on presenting a 'face'
The process of signalling attitude
Communicative acts that carry meaning beyond the words and phrases
The process of deriving implied meanings
Speech Acts
The process of signalling attitude
The concept of how all communication relies on presenting a 'face'
Using paralinguistic features when speaking.
Communicative acts that carry meaning beyond the words and phrases used within them, for example, apologies and promises.
We shall refer to context as both the linguistic and extra-linguistic information affecting the meaning that is finally settled on by both speaker and hearer. What types of context can we find?
The linguistic, the social, the socio-cultural, the cognitive and the emotional contexts.
The linguistic and cultural product of a discourse interaction.
The cognitive context, that shows humans as communicating individuals handling the mental processes that allow appropriate performance within culture and society.
'What’s the story?'
Any given utterance could have more than one possible meaning, depending on the conditions surrounding the speech event. That's called _________.
Underdeterminacy.
Anglo-American Pragmatics.
Continental Pragmatics.
Communication.
What is going on in the following conversation?:
A: 'Will you finally tell me the secret Sam told you?'
B: 'Nice weather, don’t you think?'
Flouting the Maxim of Relevance
Flouting the Maxim of Quality
Flouting the Maxim of Quantity
Preference structure
