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Round 1 - Review Day

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

Particularized

b)

Scalar

c)

Generalized

d)

Conventional

2.

Identify the type of presupposition of the sentence in italics:

When did you buy the bike? -> You bought the bike

a)

Structural

b)

Existential

c)

Factive

d)

Lexical

3.

Which utterance below employs positive politeness strategy?

a)

What about looking on the big map to find the zoo?

b)

Excuse me. Where is the zoo, please?

c)

I’m sorry if I bother you, but I am looking for the zoo.

d)

Do you happen to know the way to the zoo?

4.

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.

a)

Quantity

b)

Relation

c)

Quality

d)

Manner

5.

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.’

a)

commissive

b)

declaration

c)

directive

d)

representative

6.

Name the type of deixis for the word in italics

Her painting is brilliant – that’s why it was sold for million dollars.

a)

personal deixis

b)

spatial deixis

c)

temporal deixis

d)

discourse deixis

7.

An anaphoric reference refers to the subject that is introduced …… in the sentence.

a)

later

b)

next

c)

earlier

d)

before

8.

What isn't included in positive politeness strategy?

a)

friendliness

b)

using hedges

c)

using colloquialism or slang

d)

using first name or in-group name

9.

Locutionary acts refer to

a)

The intention the speaker has when saying or writing something

b)

The act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words

c)

What the listener is expected to do.

d)

The effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act

10.

This force refers to the type of function a speaker intends to accomplish in the course of producing an utterance. What is this?

a)

locutionary

b)

illocutionary

c)

perlocutionary

d)

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