Pragmatics

Test 1

  1. What are the deictic expressions in the following statement, "I am busy now, so you cannot do it here."?

Test 2

  1. Whenever we speak, we make unconscious assumptions about the knowledge that we share with listeners. Such assumptions which affect our use of language are called ...........

Test 3

  1. The statement "The king of Greece is on a visit to U. S.” presupposes that ...........

Test 4

  1. "You are not supposed to touch this book which is here." The deictic expressions in the above sentence are “...........”

Test 5

  1. The unconscious assumptions that we share with our listeners are called ...........

Test 6

  1. Work in pragmatics deals with the .......... meaning.

Test 7

  1. .......... belongs to the theory of language use.

Test 8

  1. Relationship between sign and sign users are discussed in ...........

Test 9

  1. The statement "The king of Greece is on a visit to the U. S. " presupposes that ...........

Test 10

  1. Which of the followings contains two deictic expressions?

Test 11

  1. "Pragmatics" is a branch of linguistic science which studies ...........

Test 12

  1. The co-text of a word is the ...........

Test 13

  1. .......... is a term used to subsume those features of language which refer to the personal, temporal or locational characteristics of the situation.

Test 14

  1. What are the deictic expressions in the following sentence: "They will talk to me about this when it's too late"?

Test 15

  1. Linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic variables that affect actual language use are called ..........

Test 16

  1. Assumptions about the knowledge that we share with our listeners are called ...........

Test 17

  1. What is the word which is not a diectic expression in the following statement? "Now he is writing a letter to his mother here in this room."

Test 18

  1. The following utterance produced by a student addressing his teacher is .......... ill-formed: “post the letter for me, will you?”

Test 19

  1. Every language has a set of lexemes of .......... which can be interpreted only with reference to the speaker’s position in space or time.

Test 20

  1. A- I hear John didn't do too well in his final exam. B- Yeah, it turned out to be his Waterloo. What kind of knowledge would allow for a correct interpretation of this dialog?

Test 21

  1. Which presupposition is NOT relevant to the sentence?

Test 22

  1. Assumptions about the knowledge that we share with our listeners are called ...........

Test 23

  1. Studying the way we use language to get the meanings beyond those given form by language is termed ··········· and studying how sentences are fitted to longer stretches of language is termed ……….

Test 24

  1. The systematic description of linguistic knowledge is referred to as ..........

Test 25

  1. According to Yule , pragmatics refers to ..........

Test 26

  1. Semantics and pragmatics are concerned with aspects of .......... in language.

Test 27

  1. Which of the following sentences does not contain any deictic expression?

Test 28

  1. Compare the following sentence: a) John has lost his briefcase b) John has not lost his briefcase. One may conclude that ............ .

Test 29

  1. Take the following sentences into account: 1- My brother stopped taking care of our father. 2- My brother didn’t stop taking care of our father. The two sentences share the ……….

Test 30

  1. In the study of language development, pragmatics refer to the ..........

Test 31

  1. What a speaker assumes is true or is known by the hearer can be described as ...........

Test 32

  1. The "constancy under negation" test works as a means of finding the .......... underlying a sentence.

Test 33

  1. Consider the following sentences, “My grandfather was a captain. My grandfather was not a captain.” The .......... is "I had a grandfather."

Test 34

  1. The deictic expressions in the following statement, "You have no other choice but to leave here. " are “...........”

Test 35

  1. In analyzing a text discoursally, one should concentrate on what is taking place or what is going on or actually what is happening. This part of analysis is about the .......... of the text.

Test 36

  1. The branch of language study that focuses on how language users interpret what other language users mean is called ...........

Test 37

  1. The sentence, "They must do that tomorrow because they are not here now," is not comprehensible because of lack of ...........

Test 38

  1. The study of language in communication, particularly the relationship between sentences and the contexts and situations in which they are used is referred to as ...........

Test 39

  1. In the sentence, "He is expected to come here now," the deictic expressions are ...........

Test 40

  1. The set of other words used in the same phrase or sentence is considered the .......... of a word.

Test 41

  1. .......... terms require knowledge of the circumstances of the utterance to be interpreted referentially.

Test 42

  1. The interaction between a sequence of language and the real world situation in which it is used is called ...........

Test 43

  1. The word "It" in the sentence "It is unfortunate that you are leaving us" ...........

Test 44

  1. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct?

Test 45

  1. "Focusing on how language users interpret what other language users mean" is of interest to ...........

Test 46

  1. According to Austin, words like "promise" in which the saying of the word is the doing of the action are called .......... verbs.

Test 47

  1. Which of the following is true?

Test 48

  1. The non-linguistic environment of a linguistic event is called .......... whereas the total linguistic environment of a linguistic event is called ..........

Test 49

  1. Sentences having two or more interpretations are called .......... sentences.

Test 50

  1. The tendency of words to co-occur predictably with others e.g. “solve/problem” is called ...........

Test 51

  1. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct?

Test 52

  1. A speech act which describes events or states in the real world such as an assertion is called a . . . . . . speech act.

Test 53

  1. Context refers to the ... .. .

Test 54

  1. Which of the following groups is NOT a set of deictic expressions?

Test 55

  1. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct?

Test 56

  1. There are .......... common speech acts: ...........

Test 57

  1. When the speaker uses the sentence, "It is hot here, isn't it?" to ask for the window to be opened, it is called ...........

Test 58

  1. According to the speech act theory, the sentence, "I promise not to be late," is an example of .......... act.