pragmatics and semantics

Which of the following is an example of a directive?

• • "Please close the window."

• • "I believe in kindness."

Which speech act changes the state of affairs in the world?

• • Declaratives

• • Assertives

Which of the following is an example of a commissive speech act?

• • "I will finish the project by tomorrow."

• • "The project is due tomorrow."

What is the purpose of commissive speech acts in relationships?

• • To create trust by committing to future actions

• • To express emotions and feelings of gratitude

Locutionary act is basic act of utterance, or producing a ........ linguistic expression.

• communicative

• meaningful

• meaningless

• result

A technical term known as deictic expressions (from Greek) which means “pointing” via language.

• context

• reference

• inference

• deixis

Presupposition is an assumption by a speaker/writer about what is true or already known by the listener/reader

• True

• False

What is pragmatics?

• Meaning in use & meaning in context

  
  

• Studies on relationships between forms and the users of the forms

• The branch of linguistics dealing with

  language in use and the contexts in

  which it is used

• All of the above

When you see this advertisement, you know that they are not selling babies. This is an effect of.......................

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

Deixis refers to expressions which................

• are used to point to someone or something through language

• show a relation between a referent and thought

• mention someone or something in speech or writing