ENG508 Final Term Quiz from Assessments

ENG508

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Maha Malik Semantics and Pragmatics

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1. Grice argued for intention-based theory, it means what’s speaker’s utterance and what speaker’s mean by uttering (True)
2. Super or supreme principle identified by Grice. (True)
3. In flouting the manner, speaker appears to be clear, includes the third party. (False)
4. Violating the maxims of quantity and quality are same. (False)
5. We’ll call you in about two weeks and then not call is an example of Maxim of quantity.

(False)

6. Relevance theory is not called cognitive theory. (False)
7. Wilson and sperber classified the relevance theory into three principles. (False)
8. A directly conveyed content is called Implicature. (False)
9. The vast majority of lexical items don’t have the conceptual meaning. (False)
10. The degree of relevance is related to contextual effects and processing efforts. (True)
11. An Implicature is what a speaker can imply or suggests. (True)
12. Conventional Implicature is a subset of utterances. (True)
13. Listener don’t need to focus on the background in order to understand the meaning. (True)
14. Some professors are famous: is an example of Scalar implication. (True)
15. When our conversation takes place in a very specific context, where locally recognized inferences are assumed. (True)
16. Conventional Implicature is not different from conversational Implicature. (True)
17. Defeasibility is known as cancel ability. (False)
18. Conventional Implicature is not associated with the utterance. (False)
19. The main communicative point of the utterance is called strong Implicature. (True)
20. Weak Implicature is not by itself the main communicative point of the utterance. (True)
21. Pointing via language is called Implicature. (False)
22. Spatial Deixis are used to indicate the relative location of people and things. (True)
23. Any expression used to point to a person is called person Deixis. (True)
24. Social Deixis do not refer to expressions which clearly encode social meaning. (False)
25. Time Deixis is also known as context Deixis. (False)
26. Text Deixis is also called Discourse Deixis. (True)
27. Pointing at a place in a map and saying “here” is ,this property of language is called Textual analysis. (False)
28. Deictic Referents are typically denotations with limited descriptive power. (True)
29. When a person has good knowledge of English language and explains everything clearly, it mean he has good pragmatic knowledge. (False)
30. When we hear a number of assumptions about the context is called Deictic center. (True)
31. A speaker assumes to be case prior to making an utterance is called Entailment (False)
32. Presupposition has six types. (False)
33. Some meanings of presupposition don’t survive to become the meaning of complex sentence, this is known as projection problem. (True)
34. Word ‘any’ creates negative impression in the real world of presupposition. (True)
35. The truth of the second sentence necessarily follows from the truth of the first is defined as “entailment) by Crystal (1998). (True)
36. Performative utterances tend to begin with first person singular are called Implicit meanings. (False)
37. The sentence “I give my word” doesn’t describe some states of affair rather doing certain things. (True)
38. The sentence” The earth is flat “is a statement of purpose. (False)
39. When the speaker promises to do something, there are four preparatory conditions. (False)
40. Whenever there’s a direct relationship between a structure and a function we have a direct speech act. (True)
41. Directives are more often expressed as interrogatives than imperatives. (True)
42. Social distances can’t give speakers power and authority. (False)
43. The one utterance can fall into more than one macro-class. (True)
44. The function in which language serves in the expression of content is called ‘transactional’.

(True)

45. Illocutionary and per-Locationary speech acts help the students in the exploration of the text. (True)
46. Politeness generally refers to the modest and nice to other people. (True)
47. If you say something that represents a threat to another person’s self-image that’s called Threatening behavior. (False)
48. On record expressions are associated with expressions. (False)
49. Positive politeness is a strategy used when the speaker is not familiarized with the listener.

(False)

50. Deference strategy is an impersonal strategy. (True)
51. Politeness is a phenomena which is in the function and the intended social meaning. (True)
52. Politeness is not influenced by the elements of the context. (False)
53. Variables that determine social distance are roles, age, gender are the examples of determine social distance. (True)
54. I’m worried about you is an example of positive politeness. (False)
55. Turn-taking is one of the feature of negative politeness. (False)
56. Backchannels are head nods, smiles and other facial expressions. (True)
57. A sequence of two related utterances by two different speakers is known as turn-taking.

(False)

58. Opening sequences that are used to set up some specific potential actions are called pre- invitations. (False)