Pragmatics Ôn tập

Select the violated conversation maxim:

Mom: What did you think of Junior’s childish behavior last night?

Dad: Well, boys will be boys

• Quantity

• Manner

• Quality

• Relevance

What is the correct meaning of the 'maxim of quality'

• Speaking the right amount

• Keeping what is being said relevant

• Speaking the truth

• Being clear and not ambiguous

Select the violated conversation maxim:

Student A: Do you like Linguistics?

Student B: Well, let’s just say I don’t jump for joy before class.

• Quantity

• Manner

• Quality

• Relevance

Select the violated conversation maxim:

Student: I was absent on Monday - did I miss anything important?

Teacher: Oh no, of course not, we never do anything important in class.

• Quantity

• Manner

• Quality

• Relevance

Select the violated conversation maxim:

Student A: Can you tell me where the lecture is?

Student B: It is in room 254, the room in which I had my first university class ever.

• Quantity

• Manner

• Quality

• Relevance

Because of the Cooperative Principle, a listener will usually try to interpret a comment:

• in a way that makes it relevant to the conversation.

• as though the speaker is lying.

• in a way that produces the most optimistic message.

Which option paraphrases the Cooperative Principle?

• The main purpose of conversations is to cooperate to complete social projects.

• The most common purpose of conversations is to persuade other people to cooperate with us and help us achieve our goals.

• You have to be friendly towards people if you want to communicate with them effectively.

• Each participant in a conversation is expected to say appropriate things so that the conversation progresses successfully.

What is the maxim of quantity?

• Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity.

• Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither

  too little information nor too much.

• Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has

  been said before.

• Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believe corresponds to reality.

Which of Cooperative Maxims has been violated if you purposely tell a lie?

• Quality

• Quantity

• Relevance

• Manner

Which of Cooperative Maxims has been violated if you purposely withhold information from someone?

• Quality

• Quantity

• Relevance

• Manner