461 Pragmatics & deixis (preparation bonus)

Chinese has inclusive pronouns.

• Yes

• No

Answer explanation

Actually, Chinese doesn’t have we purely call pronouns.

Japanese honorifics are added as suffixes

• Yes

• No

• Not necessarily

Check the three languages that appear in our preparation for deixis and distance

• Arabic

• Tok Pisin

• Spanish

• Singaporean

• Turkish

A speaker may mark something that is physically close (for example, a perfume being sniffed by the speaker) as psychologically distant 'I don't like that.'

• Yes

• No

"I could swim (when I was a child)" shows

• Distal person deixis & proximal temporal deixis

• Proximal person deixis & proximal spatial deixis

• Distal person deixis & distal spatial deixis

• Proximal person deixis & distal temporal deixis

Deictic projection can be clearly observed in the utterance "I loved you then."

• Yes

• No

Deixis is important to study pragmatically because... (check all that apply)

• it shows relative distance

• it communicates more than is said

• it can express speaker meaning

• it involves contextual meaning

• its implicature is based on presupposition

In the utterance "This programme was recorded last Wednesday, April 1st, to be relayed today," the deictic centre is projected on the addressee and RT (deictic centre was projected into the future)

• Yes

• No

The term 'grammaticalized' means

• formed according to grammar

• marking language change with affixes, articles, pronouns, and prepositions to represent objects and actions

• stabilizing textual discourse through conventional usage

• deriving new senses for existing words through lexifying terms in relation to concepts