1) What differentiates Pragmatics from other branches of linguistics? a) The literal meaning of words. b) The influence of context on words. c) The arrangement of words. 2) Pragmatics studies meaning in isolation. a) True b) False 3) Nonlinguistic context refers to: a) Aspects that occur outside the language. b) Aspects that occur inside the language. c) None 4) What does the listener need to understand the speaker's intended meaning? a) Connect what is said and what is meant. b) Prior knowledge or information. c) A and B 5) Presupposition refers to what the listener understands. a) True b) False 6) What does the deixis refer to? a) The expressions that the speaker and the listener uses in a conversation. b) The speaker, the listener and the purpose involved in a conversation. c) People, place and time involved in a conversation. 7) Spatial deixis refers to adverbs of place while person deixis refers to personal pronouns. a) True b) False 8) What does temporal deixis refer to? a) It refers to the speaker and the addressee. b) It refers to the moment of the utterance. c) It refers to the location where the speech event occurs. 9) What is the main difference between direct and indirect speech acts? a) The degree of politeness of the conversation. b) The degree of presupposition made by the speaker. c) The degree of inference made by the listener. 10) Performative speech means that the speaker can provoke an action just by using language. a) True b) False

PRAGMATICS TEST

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