ENG508 Final Term Past Papers by Sir Zahid

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Define the term "adjacency pairs." What is social deixis? Provide an example. Explain conceptual meaning. Explain procedural meaning. Define co-text. What is cohesion in discourse?

Discuss the features and importance of adjacency pairs in conversational analysis. Explain the difference between direct and indirect speech acts with examples. Describe the role of contextual factors in interpreting speech acts. Analyze the difference between structural and lexical ambiguity with relevant examples.

Paper No.2

Define temporal deixis. What is the difference between direct and indirect speech? Explain positive politeness. Explain negative politeness. What is a relevance theory? What is structural ambiguity?

Discuss the concept of face and politeness theory, providing examples of facethreatening and face-saving acts. Compare and contrast positive and negative politeness strategies. Provide examples. Explain the different types of deixis (personal, temporal, spatial, social) with examples. Discuss the role of cohesion in discourse, explaining various cohesive devices like reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion.

Paper No.3

What is lexical ambiguity?

Define cultural pragmatics. What is face-threatening act (FTA)? What is face-saving act (FSA)? Explain the maxim of quality. Explain the maxim of relation.

Describe Grice’s Cooperative Principle and its maxims. Provide examples of how these maxims can be violated. Explain the concept of implicature, distinguishing between conventional implicature and conversational implicature. Discuss Austin's and Searle's speech act theories, including the classifications of speech acts. Analyze the impact of cultural differences on speech acts and politeness strategies. Provide examples from different cultures.

Paper No.4

What is conventional implicature?

What are the features of conversational implicature?

Define irony in pragmatic terms. What is deixis? Explain hyperbole with an example. Define presupposition.

Explain the relevance theory proposed by Sperber and Wilson, including its key principles and applications. Discuss the difference between presupposition and entailment with suitable examples. Describe the concept of cross-cultural pragmatics and its significance in communication. Provide examples.