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PRAGMATICS QUIZ
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1. What does this sign mean?
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a. You may park your heated attendant here.
b. Parking will be carried out by an attendant who has been heated.
c. The garage is heated, and parking is available.
d. You may park here, an attendant is available, and the parking
garage is heated.
e. Heated area with attendant.
2. The meaning (sense) of a word is:
a. what it refers to
b. what it sounds like
c. what it connotes
d. what it co-occurs with
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e. none of the above
3. Your friend is saying ‘It’s cold in here.’ Is it:
a. a statement
b. a complaint
c. a request
d. a command
4. (In a formal get-together)
together)
A: Mrs. X is an old bag.
B: The weather has been quite delightful this summer, hasn’t it?
B is intentionally violating the maxim of
a. relation
b. manner
c. quantity
d. quality
5. TRUE or FALSE
a. Presuppositions are triggered by a number of different words and linguistic constructions,
including definite noun phrases.
b. Pragmatics is the study of the variety of language the speaker is using.
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c. Pragmatics is the study of the conventional implicature in different types of discourse.
d. When we read or hear a piece of language, we try to understand two things: what the words
mean, and what the writer or the speaker intended to convey.
e. A: “Can I borrow your book?”
B: “Yes, it’s on the table.”
The ‘book’ and ‘it ‘have no relationship.
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f. People not only produce utterances containing grammatical structures but also perform actions
through these utterances.