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WorksheetsRound 1 - Review Day
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
What kind of implicature is employed in the bold sentence below?
Speaker A: Do you like Rosie?
Speaker B: Well, she has a nice husband.
Particularized
Scalar
Generalized
Conventional
Identify the type of presupposition of the sentence in italics:
When did you buy the bike? -> You bought the bike
Structural
Existential
Factive
Lexical
Which utterance below employs positive politeness strategy?
What about looking on the big map to find the zoo?
Excuse me. Where is the zoo, please?
I’m sorry if I bother you, but I am looking for the zoo.
Do you happen to know the way to the zoo?
What maxim is flouted in the following conversations:
Speaker A: What’s the weather prediction?
Speaker B: It's cold, very cold. And I think you'd better bring your coat and your scà. Make sure that you're not gonna get cold.
Quantity
Relation
Quality
Manner
Identify the type of speech act of the utterance of the Prime Minister:
Minister of Education: ‘I resign.’
Prime Minister: ‘You’ll be free from tomorrow.’
commissive
declaration
directive
representative
Name the type of deixis for the word in italics
Her painting is brilliant – that’s why it was sold for million dollars.
personal deixis
spatial deixis
temporal deixis
discourse deixis
An anaphoric reference refers to the subject that is introduced …… in the sentence.
later
next
earlier
before
What isn't included in positive politeness strategy?
friendliness
using hedges
using colloquialism or slang
using first name or in-group name
Locutionary acts refer to
The intention the speaker has when saying or writing something
The act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words
What the listener is expected to do.
The effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act
This force refers to the type of function a speaker intends to accomplish in the course of producing an utterance. What is this?
locutionary
illocutionary
perlocutionary
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