ENG508 Final Term Past Papers

32 MCQs; 8 Questions of 3 Marks & 4 Questions of 5 Marks

Time Duration: 120 minutes

1. Searle proposes that declarations 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

The British and North Americans have a sequence rather than just ending with a farewell

pre-closing ✅ ending windup

9. A presupposition is something the speaker assumes to be the case prior to making an utterance
10. What is there less social distance there is less politeness and indirectness.

Negative Positive Agentive Advective

11. An interlanguage translation model requires procedure one decoding procedure and one encoding procedure of the six language.
12. The expression such as perhaps may be kind of and sort of etc come under the heading of

Spouts Patterns Enclosure Hedge

Q13. Question like using isn't it on reserve isn't it?

Neutral Tag Open Close.

14. Conversational analysis examines level meaning with in a that

Serious Same Different Interactive

15. If I president .I would change the country condition

Was Had Were Have

16. 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.
17. Example of scale is.....

Numerals, modals · adverb, completion · connective, adjectives · all of these✅

18. This and That are the examples of.....

deictic expression

dectic reference

19. Conventional implicature is associated with speaker or rather than a sentence.

reference

utterance

20. Linguistic material that is less than a complete sentence is called.....

fragment · sentence · clause · none of the given option

21. Statement that expresses a proposition that is necessarily true is called a.......

Tautology · 22. The main concern is when teaching a ....... language · Foreign language

23. According to Kanaggy (1999), the children in..... are taught the cultural practices

German · Greek · Japan · 24. corpus is a ....... word for body · Latin · Greek · French · German

25. The study of language and power is often designated as CDA

Polital Societal Philosophical

Critical

26. complements carry pragmatics meaning across culture.

Aforesaid · Same · Different · Uniform

27. Fixedness of deictic center poses a particular when we want to quote what others have said to us.

problem · solution · choice · program

28. indirect speech act have a ...... illocutionary that has meaning when taken literally

Biased · Descriptive · Equal · Descriptive · 29. Could you lend me a pen is a ....... politeness · Negative · Positive Neutral None of the given option

30. Among the flowing........ is an indirect directive redressing the face threatening act with negative

Formality of imposition Formality of dissimilation

Formality of imposture Formality of context

31. In the educational system. ..enables students for audible transcription. Pilot study

32. Menard and Warwick (2009)state resistance to learning develops when education system failed to take into Account
33. The expression such as, perhaps, may be, kind of, sort of etc. Come under the heading of ...Hedges
34. According to Brown and Yule There are 2 main functions of talk.

35. in the politeness deference strategy used in. ................. Formal

36. 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

37. which of the two news caption is inapropriat

1. At 3 a.m onsundy ,fire department evacuated people from center of squre and near the building
2. 2.As consern fire department evacuated people from center of squre and near the building at 3 am.on Sunday.

Q. Training in pragmatics outside the class room

Awareness Raising‖ among teachers because there is a lack of teacher training programs. Teachers should be properly guided about the selection of material, the choice of activities and the importance of pragmatic competence. In the next step, language teachers would build the awareness in the learners. For example, the skills in the primary language and culture to help them become more capable of understanding and enacting pragmatic meanings in the target language

Q. conditions for promise

When the speaker promises to do something, there are two preparatory conditions: First, the event will not happen by itself. Second, the event will have a beneficial effect.

Q. Conditions for warning

When the speaker utters a warning, there are the following preparatory conditions: It is not clear that the hearer knows the event will occur. The speaker does think the event will occur. The event will not have a beneficial effect.