ENG508 Final Term Quiz Combined

ENG508

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Maha Malik Semantics and Pragmatics

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 (high)
5. Positive face-threatening acts are a direct challenge to the face of the listener. (direct)
6. communicative competence invented by the anthropologist and sociolinguist Dell Hymes
7. the demonstratives encode a way proximal/distal distinction (two)
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)

10. What is there less social distance there is less politeness and indirectness. (Negative)
11. An interlanguage translation model requires procedure one decoding procedure and one encoding procedure of the six language. (12)
12. The expression such as perhaps may be kind of and sort of etc. come under the heading of

(Hedge)

13. Question like using isn't it on reserve isn't it? (Tag)
14. Conversational analysis examines level meaning with in a that (Different)
15. If I president. I would change the country condition (were)
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)
19. Conventional implicature is associated with speaker or rather than a sentence. (utterance)
20. Linguistic material that is less than a complete sentence is called (fragment)
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. (Japan)
24. corpus is a word for body (Latin)
25. The study of language and power is often designated as CDA
26. complements carry pragmatics meaning across culture. (Different)
27. Fixedness of deictic center poses a particular when we want to quote what others have said to us. (Problem)
28. indirect speech act have a illocutionary that has meaning when taken literally (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 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 failedto 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 inappropriate (As concern fire department evacuated

people from center of square and near the building at 3 am on Sunday.)

38. A presupposition is something the speaker assumes to be the case to making an utterance. (prior)
39. A scalar implicature is a quantity implicature based on the use of an informationally term in an implicational scale. (weak)
40. Cancellability is one of the properties of conversational implicature. It is also known as .

(defeasibility)

41. These sentences can be chosen from any book ‘indexical properties’ may be discussed. (whose)
42. Presupposition is the assumption of the existence of the entities named by the speaker. (Existential)
43. Speech acts and their linguistic realizations are culturally . (bound)
44. Politeness is not like , which is a polite form expressing distance from and respect for people of a higher status. (deference)
45. There are situational context factors that influence the way that we make a request.

(two)

46. Conversational analysis examines levels of meaning within a text. (different)
47. All the subparts of the referent can be treated as given information when a is introduced into a discourse. (noun phrase)
48. Conventional transcriptions of conversations use a standard script rather than phonemic transcription. (orthographic)
49. If the data are transcribable and analyzable, students move to the next stage which is it.

(transcribing)

50. The transmitter encodes and transmits the message as a linguistic , which the receiver then decodes. (signal)