Questions on Deixis in Pragmatics

Which of the following is an example of person deixis?

• "Here"

• "Tomorrow"

• "You"

• "That"

Temporal deixis is concerned with:

• Identifying a person

• Referring to spatial locations

• Indicating time

• Expressing attitudes

Which of these sentences contains a spatial deictic expression?

• "I will see you tomorrow."

• "The book is over there."

• "She is feeling happy today."

• "That was a good movie."

In the sentence, "I’ll call you later," the word "later" is an example of:

• Person deixis

• Temporal deixis

• Spatial deixis

• Discourse deixis

The term "deictic center" in pragmatics refers to:

• The speaker's location in space and time

• The listener's understanding of deixis

• The cultural context of a conversation

• The grammatical structure of deictic expressions

In the sentence, "Can you bring me that book over there?" what does "that" indicate?

• A proximal deictic term

• A distal deictic term

• A temporal reference

• A personal reference

Which of these pairs illustrates a shift in temporal deixis?

• "This" and "that"

• "Today" and "tomorrow"

• "I" and "we"

• "Here" and "there"

What is reference in pragmatics?

• The literal meaning of a word in isolation.

• The relationship between linguistic expressions and the entities they refer to in the real world.

• The act of making guesses about the speaker’s intended meaning.

• The use of synonyms in communication.

What is inference in pragmatics?

• The explicit meaning conveyed by the words in a sentence.

• The process by which listeners derive additional meaning from what is said.

• The use of deictic expressions in communication.

• The study of sentence structures.

What enables a listener to correctly identify a referent in ambiguous contexts?

• Contextual knowledge and pragmatic inference

• The length of the referring expression

• Syntactic structure only

• Repetition of the referring expression