ex6-pragmatics
1．According to C. Morris and R. Carnap, ______ studies the relationship between symbols and their interpreters.
a. syntax
b. semantics
c. pragmatics
d. sociolinguistics
2. There are ____ deixis in the sentence She has sold it here yesterday.
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
3. “We can do things with words”– this is the main idea of ______.
a. the speech act theory
b. the co-operative principles
c. the polite principles
d. pragmatics
4. ____ refers to the utterance of a sentence with determinate sense and reference.
a. Locutionary act
b. Illocutionary act
c. Perlocutionary act
d. speech act
5. ____ may be used as an example of indirect speech act.
a. “Could you open the window?”
b. “I hereby declare Mr Williams elected.”
c. “Good morning!”
d. “I command you to report at 6 in the morning tomorrow.”
6. The maxim of ____ requires that a participant’s contribution be relevant to the conversation.
a. quantity
b. quality
c. manner
d. relation
7. For the following conversation:
A: Did you see my book in the classroom this morning? B: I was in the library.
____ is the conversation implicature.
a. B saw A’s book.
b. B was not in the classroom that morning.
c. B did not see A’s book.
d. B stole A’s book.
8. ____ first proposed the speech act theory.
a. Searle
b. Austin
c. Grice
d. Halliday
9. A: What do you think of Mr. Zhang? B: A fine day, isn’t it?
In the dialogue, B’s answer flouts which of the four maxims of CP?
a. the maxim of quantity
b. the maxim of quality
c. the maxim of manner
d. the maxim of relation
10. What is the most important concept to distinguish pragmatics from semantics?
a. context
b. entailment
c. presupposition
d. discourse
11. Searle divided the illocutionary acts into _____ categories.
a. three
b. four
c. five
d. six
12. Which of the following is NOT the specific instance of directives?
a. inviting
b. advising
c. warning
d. swearing
13. A: Where is Paul? B: Somewhere in our university.
In the dialogue, B’s answer flouts which of the four maxims of CP?
a. the maxim of quantity
b. the maxim of quality
c. the maxim of manner
d. the maxim of relation
14. A: Shall we get something for the kids? B: Yes. But I veto C-A-N-D-Y.
B’s answer violates maxim of _____.
a. quantity
b. quality
c. manner
d. relation
15. The ____ provides great philosophical insight into the nature of the linguistic communication.
a. speech act theory
b. CP theory
c. communicative competence
d. linguistic competence
16. A: Tom is such a noisy man, isn’t he? B: I saw a fantastic movie yesterday.
What can we know from B’s answer?
a. B wanted to tell A that the film he saw was good.
b. B did not understand A’s question at all.
c. B did not want to talk more about A’s topic.
d. B did not know anything about A.
17. The word “promising” belongs to __________.
.a. representatives b. directives c. commissives d. expressives
18. Illocutionary act is __________.
a. the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology
b. the act performed by or resulting from saying something
c. the act of conveying the influence of something on the hearer
d. the consequential effect of a locution upon the hearer
19. Which of the following topics is part of the study of pragmatics?
a. The acquisition of grammatical rules in a second language.
b. The change in the meaning of a word over time.
c. The relationship between a word’s structure and its meaning.
d. The uses of different types of utterances in different context.
20. _____ act expresses the intention of the speaker.
a. Locutionary
b. Illocutionary
c. perlocutionary
d. speech
21. A: Do you know where Mr. Brown is? B: Somewhere in the southern suburbs of the city. Speaker B violates the maxim of _________.
a. quality
b. quantity c, manner d. relation
22. When you talk to your boss or to your friends, you use different words. We could analyze this phenomenon with ________.
a. social context
b. situation context
cooperativec. linguistic context
d. semantic field
23. The function of the sentence “Water boils at 100 degree centigrade.” is _____.
a. interrogative
b. directive
c. informative
d. performative
24. Contextual features exclude ______ when an utterance is made.
a. the time
b. the place
c. the participants
d. the purpose
25. In a factory, Li, the guide, is interpreting for a group of foreign guests. When they have finished visiting one workshop, he would like the group to follow him to the next workshop. He says, “______.”

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