1) Deixis refers to expressions which~~~~ a) Are used to point to someone or something through language b) Mention someone or something in speech or writing c) Show a relation between a referent and thought d) None of the above 2) Identify the type of deixis in the sentence (capitalized and bold-faced). THEY will be attending the conference shortly. a) Temporal deixis b) Spatial deixis c) Personal deixis d) None of the above 3) What does deixis need? a) Immediate physical context. b) A complete sentence. c) A connection between subject, verb, and object. d) Immediate negotiation. 4) What are the ways to infer something? a) Discussion, statement, analysis. b) Astonishment, realia, transitions. c) Reference, analytics, dissertation. d) Context, Anaphora, presupposition. 5) What is a presupposition? a) You are assuming something that is elliptic and literal. b) Assuming something is sensible and known by the speaker. c) You are assuming something sad and sensational. d) None of the above. 6) What is the definition of Anaphora? a) Retrieving things and playing with them. b) Referring to things and going back to them. c) Inferring things and forgetting them. d) Writing things and deleting them. 7) What kind of reference do these pronouns have? “Michael went to the bank. HE was annoyed because IT was closed.   a) Cataphora b) Anaphora c) Neither d) Both 8) What kind of reference do the capitalized pronoun have? “Although Peter phones HER every day, his mother still that he is not attentive enough.” a) Anaphora b) Cataphora c) None of the above. d) Both 9) What is INFERENCE? a) The concept of producing utterances. b) The process of deriving implied meanings. c) The process of using deixis. d) None of the above. 10) What is pragmatics? a) Meaning in use and meaning in context. b) Studies on relationships between forms and the users of the forms c) The branch of linguistics deals with language in use and contexts. d) All of the above. 11) Problems in making sense of certain utterances could be caused by~~~ a) Words that have the exact spelling and pronunciation but different meanings. b) Expressions have a different range of polysemous meanings in other languages c) Lack of cultural background on which local speakers draw. d) All of the above. 12) Situational context means anything non-linguistic, which of the following utterance fits the description. a) The professor made the quiz for the students. b) The man next to the guard proposed to the maid. c) He went that way! Did you see it? d) More students are taking an interest in linguistics. 13) Professor Wei’s students won the speaking contest. ________ practice more than any other class in the university. a) Their b) Her c) They d) I 14) How many anaphoric expressions are there in the following sentence? Jason gave Sherry some medicine after telling her that she should take it before bed. a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) None 15) What process is involved in connecting speaking and those particular words in the following sentence? When I started speaking, I remembered what you had shared with me, and those particular words became how I played a part in the “Mean Girls.” a) Referencing b) Indexing c) Inferencing d) Conferencing

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