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WorksheetsPragmatics: context and inference
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Pragmatics is NOT concerned with:
the use of language in social contexts
the relations between signs and the referents
he choice of language in social interaction and
the effect of this choice on others
A stretch of speech preceded and followed by silence or a change of speaker is called
a sentence
an utterance
discourse
Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation is called
linguistic context
situational context
speech event
Ambiguity means a type of meaning in which a phrase or statement is not explicitly defined, leading to several interpretations.
True
False
Deixis refers to expressions which
are used to point to someone or something through language
mention someone or something in speech or writing
show a relation between a referent and thought
"SHE wanted to borrow some money." SHE is:
Person deixis
Spacial deixis
Temporal deixis
"I will join you THIS EVENING". THIS EVENING is:
Person deixis
Temporal deixis
Spacial deixis
" I am going to buy a present THERE". THERE is:
Spacial deixis
Person deixis
Temporal deixis
"Let's meet on MONDAY." MONDAY is:
Person deixis
Spacial deixis
Temporal deixis
What kind of reference do these pronouns have? "Michael went to the bank. HE was annoyed because IT was closed."
anaphora
cataphora
What kind of reference do this pronoun have? "Although I phone HER every week, my mother still complains that I don’t keep in touch often enough."
anaphora
cataphora
What is INFERENCE?
The concept of producing utterances
The process of deriving implied meanings
The process of using deixis
What inference can the hearer draw from “Some of the students passed the exam”
Not all of the students passed the exam
All of the students passed the exam
Listeners make inferences when they
use background knowledge to make a conclusion about a meaning that the speaker didn't say
want the speaker to refer to something
What inference can the hearer draw from "John likes listening to Mozart."
John likes this guy called Mozart
John likes the music composed by Mozart
The process of using additional information by the hearer to connect what was said with what must be meant is
reference
inference
Using language to enable the hearer to identify something is called
reference
inference
