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LIMBA ENGLEZA CONTEMPORANA
3.Anne’s boyfriend called her repeatedly last night on the phone, but he couldn’t find her. The next day, he jealously asked her: ‘Where were you last night?’ ‘Out, she replied’. ‘Out, but WHERE?’ insisted the jealous man. ‘Out’, repeated Anne, stubbornly. Her second reply…
-flouts the maxim of quality, possibly conveying the implicature: it is none of your business.
-flouts the maxims of quantity and relevance, possibly conveying the implicature: it is none of your business.
-flouts the maxims of manner and quality, possibly conveying the implicature: you’re annoying me.
27.A famous politician is being interviewed about a corruption scandal his name has been associated with. On hearing the question: ‘What happened to the money invested in that company? Where is it?’ he answers: ‘As you probably know, I have been in politics for over 20 years and I have never been suspected of anything so therefore I would like to ask you what would you say if well, I certainly have been attacked on a number of occasions and still as you can see I’m going to get more involved in… etc… etc… What maxims does his utterance flout?
quantity and quality
relation and quality
relation and manner
71.Conversational implicatures are....determined by the conventional content of the utterance the conversational setting.
Presuppositions
inferences
guesses
68.A constative sentence:
is used to report something
is used to state something
is used to descr a pre-exist st of affairs
86.Constatives are primary performatives having the illocutionary force of:
questions
statements
imperatives
32.Constative utterances:
can be felicitous or infelicitous
describe reality
change reality
~~~Decide on the illocutionary force of the following sentence:
---12.Put the meat on first, so it will be done in time
suggestion
warning
promise
---13 Don’t eat too much
warning
suggestion
order
---28. Shake well before using
demand
order
instruction
---36. Let my people go!
Moses asked Pharaoh to let his people go
Moses demanded that Pharaoh let his people go
Let my people go, why don’t you?
---51With your right hand, pat your stomach:
order
demand
instruction
75.Explicit performative utterances have specific syntactic properties:
they are uttered in the 3rd person of the passive present tense
they are uttered in the 2nd person of the progressive present tense
they are uttered in the 1st person of the simple present tense
81.Felicity conditions are context conditions to be satisfied by:
a performative sentence
a constative sentence
an intention sentence
76.Grice’s notion of speaker meaning is a special case of:
assertion
intention
command
54.If a teacher tells his students:
I’ll see you in the exam, his intention is
to inform his audience of something
to promise something
it is not clear
58.If two students go to their professor and ask:
What do we have to study for the exam?,
the use of the personal pronoun we is:
exclusive
inclusive
anaphoric
90.If the appropriate institutional requirements are not met in the utterance of a performative, then we say that the speech act is:
false
void
inappropriate
37.Identify the presupposition of the following sentence:
He’s made another of his monumental blunders:
the person referred to had made monumental blunders before
the person referred to had made two monumental blunders before
the person referred to had made one monumental blunder before
59.Identify the presupposition of the following utterance:
By giving your boss a piece of your mind, you kissed your immediate promotion good-bye.
you will be promoted soon
you hurt your boss’ feelings
you will never get a promotion
85.In I filled up the tank with petrol today, today refers to:
an unspecified moment of that day, which is not expired
an unspecified moment of that day, which is expired
the whole day of today
49.In Austin’s contention, all utterances are performative; in uttering a sentence, the speaker performs:
an illocutionary act
a perlocutionary act
a locutionary act
57.In Leib’s conception (1976),
the concept of....plays central role. 62.In Morris’s conception (1971),
linguistic structure user context pragmatics deals with:
17.In the following dialogue: the relation of signs to their users
A: So, how do you like your great new job? the relation of objects to their users
B: My job’s OK. the relation of signs to concepts
B’s utterance:
flouts the mare of manner, conveying the implicature that B’s new job is fabulous
flouts the maxim of quantity, conveying the implicature that B’s new job is not that great after all
does not flout any maxim, being in idilic compliance with the Cooperative Principle
In the sentence
29---Sue is a sweetheart; she is so considerate,the use of the bolded pronoun is:
cataphoric epiphoric anaphoric
35---This is what I want to tell you: drive carefully,the use of this is:
anaphoric cataphoric epiphoric
99---.You can jump in the lake, you is used:
deictically non-deictically referentially
9.Liverpool is having a good season
gives rise to the implicature:
they are leading the championship
they aren’t leading the championship
they are the best
77.Illocutionary acts are acts expressing:
attitudes conventions functions
64.The illocutionary force of the sentence
You must never say that again, I tell you is:
obligation interdiction permission not to act
94.My book presupposes the existence of a book:
that I own that I borrowed that I talked about
89.On the basis of the Cooperative Principle,Grice
formulates the following maxims of conversation:
Quantity, Quality, Manner
Quantity, Relevance, Manner
Quantity, Quality, Relevance, Manner
45.A performative sentence:
is used to convey information about something
is used to describe a pre-existent state of affairs
is used to do something
24.Performative sentences may be:
primary vs. explicit
direct vs. Indirect active vs. passive
67.Performative utterances:
describe reality
can be classified as true or false
change reality
47.The performative force of an utterance can
be made (more) precise by the use of:
prepositional phrases intonation verbal tenses
1.Place deixis is encoded by:
demonstrative pronouns adverbs of time tenses
15.Pragmatic competence gives an account of:
the speaker’s stylistic competence
the speaker’s knowledge of how to use language
the speaker’s textual competence
33.Pragmatics represents:
the relationship sign – sign
the relationship sign – user
the relationship sign – meaning
55.Speech Acts are complex acts including:
a locutionary act or an illocutionary act
an illocutionary act and a perlocutionary act
a locutionary act, an illocutionary act and a perlocutionary act
82.In the Speech Act Theory, the speaker’s intention is included in:
the perlocutionary act the locutionary act the illocutionary act
95.Speech Acts Theory is a theory about:
how people communicate linguistic meaning truth conditions
70.In his Theory of Speech Acts Austin distinguishes between:
constative utterances and performative utterances
true utterances and false utterances
felicity utterances and non-felicity utterances
40.The advertisement In cordless technology we have the lead purposefully flouts:
the maxim of Quantity the maxim of Manner the maxim of Relevance
23.The Cooperative Principle embodies the common goal of participants in a conversation:
to be cooperative to be informative to state the truth
2.The following advertisement Ariel removes dirt and odors conveys the non-literal meaning:
this detergent removes both dirt and odors
this detergent is better than others
this detergent is the best
16.The following advertisement Now, we’ve ALL been fooled by the Cabinet flouts:
the maxim of Quantity the maxim of Quality the maxim of Relevance
73.The following metaphor Money does not grow on trees but it blossoms at out branches flouts:
the maxim of Quality the maxim of Relevance the maxim of Manner
14.The following tautology At the end of the day the Church can only afford to pay the number of people it can afford to pay flouts:
the maxim of Quality the maxim of Relevance the maxim of Quantity
79.The Locutionary Act is made up of the following acts:
a phonetic act and a rhetic act
a phonetic act, a phatic act and a rhetic act
a phatic act and a rhetic act
18.The maxim of Quantity commends:
do not make your contribution as informative as is requires
make your contribution more informative than is required
do not make your contribution more informative than is required
84.The utterance Achilles was a lion on the battlefield flouts the maxim of
quality relation manner
74.The utterance Easy read, Finnigans Wake flouts:
the maxim of Quality the maxim of Quantity the maxim of Manner
63.Time deixis is encoded by:
coding time temporal adverbs receiving time
5.What is pragmatically presupposed in the sentence Thank you for not smoking:
I want to smoke he wants to smoke
the person who wrote the notice does not want people to smoke in the room and these
people are expected to comply with the request
97.What is the illocutionary force of the following utterance: We shall speak about this at home. a promise a threat either version is possible
87.What is the presupposition of the sentence: I continued taking skating lessons after my daughter became a better skater than me:
I am a bad skater
I took skating lessons before my daughter became a better skater than me
I did not take skating lessons before my daughter became a better skater than me
48.What is the presupposition of the following utterance: After finding out that her husband
had cheated on her again, Jane stopped trusting him. Jane’s husband cheated on her repeatedly
Jane had once trusted her husband
Jane learned about her husband’s infidelity
31.What maxim does the following utterance flout:It’s so easy to learn German.A piece of cake… quantity quality manner
50.When a speaker flouts one of the maxims, the assumption is that:
he is still being cooperative and he intends to convey implicit meaning
he is no longer being cooperative
he is being cooperative and gives rise to presupposition
69.When you perform a speech act, which of the following dimensions does not depend on you and is not entirely foreseeable?
the locutionary act the illocutionary act the perlocutionary act
Which of the following is not a presupposition of the utterance
---80.I stopped jogging after a visit to the doctor.
jogging is good for health
I used to jog before that visit
the doctor exists
---98.The Prime Minister forgot to keep a record of her instructions
at the time the arms were exported to Iraq. ?
-the Prime Minister exists
-it was not necessary for her to keep a record of her instructions
-arms were exported to Iraq
60.Which of the following is not an explicit performative sentence?
I think that you are right.
I promise I’ll help you.
I hereby pronounce you man and wife.
10.Which of the following is not considered a presupposition carrier?
factive verbs wh- words common nouns
61.Which of the following does not depend on the speaker?
the locutionary act the illocutionary act the perlocutionary act
30.Which of the following does not relate to, rely on, or involve, a kind of common ground that exists between speaker and addressee?
place deixis presupposition the locutionary act
6.Which of the following variants is not likely to represent a possible illocutionary force of the utterance I’m going away on holiday next week.
-if told by A to his boss,A’s intention might be to inform the addressee of his plans
-f told by A to the cleaning woman, it might count as an instruction not to come to work the following week
-if told by A to his wife and overheard by a thief,it might count as an invitation to burglary
100.Which of the following variants is not considered an illocutionary force indicating- device? deictic elements modal verbs intonation
65.Which of the following is considered of utmost importance in the interpretation of deixis? Implicature presupposition the speaker’s context
66.Which of the following challenged the descriptive fallacy?
Paul Grice John Austin John Searle
44.Which of the following has deictic connotations?
Implicature the tense system presupposition
78.Which of the following represents the deictic center?
the hearer the speaker neither speaker nor hearer
39.Which of the following pairs of verbs have built-in deictic components?
do and make set and put bring and take
83.Which of the following variants has the illocutionary force of a statement?
all speech acts performative sentences constative sentences
96.Which of the following variants usually occurs in the present tense, first person, active voice? explicit performative sentences constative sentences both a and b
Which of the following speech acts has a 21.The maxim of Relevance requires:
different illocutionary force than the others? be orderly! be relevant! be brief!
88.Oh, damn it! I forgot my wallet at home. 56.The predicative metaphor in
Could I possibly ask you to lend me some John is a gorilla is interpreted as:
money?I’ll give it back to you tomorrow. John is playful and kidding
I made a lot of money with that project. John is big and hairy
---91.Move out of the way! I’m watching TV! John is fierce and nasty
You’re not made of glass, you know… 52.The question Where is the butter?
I’d really like you to watch that movie! Conversationally implicates:
---4.I’m going to shut the window right now. give me the butter!
It’s cold in here. why isn’t the butter in the oven?
Could you shut the window, please? you’ve put all the butter in the cake
~~~Which of the following underlined 93.The sentence Take out the garbage
items is not deictic? conversationally implicates:
---7.Our teacher is sick. it smells in here
I’m going to the seaside next Monday. what day does the garbage get collected?
He was born in England. follow my order!
---20.This shop is closed until tomorrow. 41.The sentence It’s cold in here
I’ll see you tonight. conversationally implicates:
She was born in 1975. where is my sweater?
---34.The book you are looking for is right in front of you. close the window!
He has lived in Bucharest all his life. I’m comfortable in here
Is Mr. Smith there, please?
22.Which of the items below logically follows from what is asserted in an utterance?
conversational implicature entailment conventional implicature
25.Which of the following is not considered a presupposition carrier?
Iteratives proper names cleft constructions
72.Which of the following includes the extra-linguistic surroundings that enable the participants to interact in the communication process?
co-text pragmatic competence context
26.Which of the following is of utmost concern in pragmatics?
Signs anaphora speaker meaning
38.Which of the following is constant under negation?
Presupposition implicature deixis
42.Which of the following sets of verbs counts as assertive from an illocutionary point of view? beg, implore, defy promise, swear, vow confess, confirm, report
43.Which of the following underlined personal pronouns is used non-deictically?
Mother to child: You have to write your homework now!
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. (proverb)
Husband to wife: Shall we go out tonight?
19.You missed your best friend’s birthday party and you are interested in hearing the latest gossip so you ask her: ‘So what about the party last Saturday? Was Billy there?’ She replies: ‘Yeah, he was there, and so was Annie’. Her reply flouts the maxim of:quantity relation manner
46.You are at your boyfriend’s house and his parents are in the next room. At a certain point, assuming that you are alone with him, you ask him: ‘Hey, do you remember what a great time we had last Friday when we skipped classes and went to the movies?’ and he replies:
‘Diane, let’s start working on our assignment in linguistics!’ Which of the following is more likely:
his utterance flouts the maxim of quantity and a possible implicature is: I don’t want to talk about that.
his utterance flouts the maxim of quality and a possible implicature is: I didn’t enjoy the movie very much.
his utterance flouts the maxim of relation and a possible implicature would be: Watch your words, my mother has just entered the room and she’s standing right behind you!
11.You have lent your friend some money and he hasn’t returned it yet. Obviously irritated, you ask him: ‘So, when are you going to give me back my money?’ and he replies: ‘Have
you seen The Aviator? I hear it’s a great movie!’ His reply flouts the maxim of:
quality quantity relation
8.Your friend has helped you write a very difficult report. You gratefully thank her: ‘Thanks so much. You’re an angel!’ Your utterance flouts the maxim of: quality quantity manner
92.You are at a party, wearing a gorgeous blue dress / suit, having a great time, when someone accidentally spills a glass of red wine in your lap. Your evening is completely ruined and you angrily shout: ‘Great! That’s made my day!’. Your utterance flouts the maxim of:
quantity quality relation
53.You are in a McDonald’s restaurant with a friend and you order a cheeseburger.Your friend asks you: ‘So how is your cheeseburger?’ and you reply: ‘A cheeseburger is a cheeseburger’. Your utterance…
flouts the maxim of manner and carries the implicature: ‘I don’t like cheeseburgers’
flouts the maxim of quantity and carries the implicature: ‘What can you expect from a
cheeseburger?’
flouts the maxim of relation and carries the implicature : ‘I adore cheeseburgers!’ |
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