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WorksheetsPragmatics, Context, Situation, What's Going On?
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Identify the speech act and try to describe the situation.
Identify the speech act and describe the situation.
Identify the speech act and describe the situation.
Identify the speech act and describe the situation.
Identify the speech act and describe the situation.
Identify the speech act and describe the situation.
Identify the speech act and describe the situation.
Identify the speech act and describe the situation.
Identify the speech act and describe the situation.
◦Jack: What was that nose-sticker doing on my garden?
◦Sally: Ohh, nothing Jimmy, he just wanted to borrow the hammer.
◦Jack: Next time he comes again, tell him we don´t have any.
The two examples of definite noun phrase reference are?
my garden
any
that nose-sticker
nothing
the hammer
◦Sam: Next week there is Fast and Furious playing in cinema, we have to go and watch it together.
◦Jessy: (5 seconds of silence)
◦Sam: Did, you hear there will be Paul Walker portraying the main character?
◦Jess: Em, it is not that I wouldn´t like to go, but I just have to babysit my sister during the evenings.
What is the most accurate label for the first part of Sam´s speech?
Assessment
Proposal
Offer
Request
◦Mother: If his majesty could have reported his absence at lunch more than an hour in advance, that would be outstanding!
◦Son: Sorry, but sometimes you have to make quick decisions, especially when you are a prince.
"His majesty" is an example of:
social deixis
proximal terms
distal terms
honorifics
What category of speech act is this?
“Could you lend me a pencil, please?”
Commissives
Assertives
Expressives
Directives
What category of speech act is this?
"You are fired!"
Declarations
Commissives
Expressives
Assertives
Someone shouts 'fire' causing people to exit a building that they believe to be on fire.
What is the perlocutionary act here?
Someone shouting 'fire'
People running to exit the building
Cause people to panic
Crime of disturbance
