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WorksheetsCONTEXT, DEIXIS, REFERENCE
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Deixis means … via language.
identifying
talking
pointing
Deictic expressions being “away from speaker” like “there, that, then” are called….
Distal terms
Proximal terms
Spatial terms
Which of the following sentences is true about co-context?
Co-context is non-verbal language speakers use like facial expressions or hand gestures.
Co-context of a word is a set of other words used in the same phrase or sentence or utterance.
Co-context is the physical context in which the conversation occurs.
(a) context refers to the social relationship of the people involved in communication.
In linguistics, deixis refers to words and phrases that cannot be fully understood without additional (a) information
_________ reference is the use of a word or a group of words which refer back to another part of the text.
Anaphoric
Cataphoric
Exphoric
Are "now" and "then" temporal deixis?
Yes
No
Why are come, bring, take, go considered spatial deixis?
They show the relationship between the speaker and the listener
They show the reference to the future
They show the idea of proximity and indicate the concept of distance
Identify the discoursal deixis in this sentence: That was an amazing fact I have ever heard.
(a)
There are ...... types of context.
3
4
5
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