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  1. Searle proposes that decalrations have the DOUBLE direction to fit.
  2. The only evidence to support action theory involves the sociolinguistic dimensions of interactional discourse
  3. Searle treats language as a natural extension of NON-LINGUISTIC biological capacities.
  4. According to LoCastro (2012), pragmatic competence for second language learners is important even more than acquiring high linguistic proficiency in the L2 low high ✅ mid none of the given options
  5. Positive face-threatening acts are a direct challenge to the face of the listener. direct✅ indirect
  6. communicative competence invented by the anthropologist and sociolinguist Dell Hymes
  7. the demonstratives encode a ________ way proximal/distal distinction, two ✅. three. five four
  8. "how fat you are” express according to praising
  9. The British and North Americans have a sequence rather than just ending with a farewell pre-closing ✅ ending. windup
  10. A presupposition is something the speaker assumes to be the case prior to making an utterance
  11. What is there less social distance there is less ______ politeness and indirectness. Negative Positive Agentive Advective
  12. An interlanguage translation model requires _________procedure one decoding procedure and one encoding procedure of the six language..
  13. The expression such as perhaps may be kind of and sort of etc come under the heading of Spouts Patterns Enclosure. Hedge

Q14. . Question like using isn't it on reserve isn't it?

Neutral Tag Open. Close..

  1. Conversational analysis examines _______ level meaning with in a that Serious Same Different Interactive
  2. If I______ president .I would change the country condition Was Had. Were Have
  3. LoCastro (2012) highlights a speech variable found in an individual‘s speech in Australia and the U.K., i.e. women may drop their h‘s.
  4. Example of scale is..... Numerals, modals adverb , completion. connective , adjectives.

all of these✅

  1. This and That are the examples of ..... deictic expression dectic reference
  2. Conventional implicature is associated with speaker or ________rather than a sentence. reference utterance
  3. Linguistic material that is less than a complete sentence is called..... Fragment. Sentence. clause none of the given option
  4. Statement that expresses a proposition that is necessarily true is called a.......

Tautology

  1. The main concern is when teaching a ....... language Foreign language
  2. According to Kanaggy (1999), the children in..... are taught the cultural practices German Greek Japan
  3. corpus is a ....... word for body Latin. Greek French German
  4. . The study of language and power is often designated as CDA Polital. Societal Philosophical Critical
  5. complements carry pragmatics meaning across culture. Aforesaid. Same Different. Uniform
  6. Fixedness of deictic center poses a particular ______ when we want to quote what others have said to us. Problem. solution choice program
  7. indirect speech act have a ...... illocutionary that has meaning when taken literally Biased Equal Descriptive
  8. Could you lend me a pen is a ....... politeness Negative Positive. Neutral. None of the

given option

  1. Among the flowing ........ is an indirect directive redressing the face threatening act with negative Formality of imposition Formatity of didsimilation. Formality of imposture. Formality of context.
  2. In the educational system. ..enables students for audibve transcription. Pilot

Study

  1. Menard and Warwick (2009)state resistance to learning develops when education system failed to take into account
  2. The expression such as, perhaps, may be kind of, sort of ute. Come under the heading of .. Hedges
  3. According to Brown and Yule There are two main functions of talk.
  4. in the politeness deference strategy used in..Formal
  5. Synonymous words can be used in place of one another, corpora can show that it is not common for words to be readily substitutable for one another
  6. which of the two news caption is inapropriat 1 At 3 am on sundy fire department evacuated people from center of square and near the building,
  7. As concern fire department evacuated people from center of square and near the building at 3 am on Sunday.
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