Pragmatics and Speech

The term pragmatics was first introduced by the philosopher

• John Austin

• Charles Morris

• Paul Grice

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Semantics is the study of

• the relations of linguistic units to context

• The relations of linguistic units to the object they denote

• the relations of the grammatical relations of linguistic units to one another and the grammatical structures of the phrases

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Linguistic pragmatics is the study of the ability of language users to pair sentences with the context in which they would be appropriate

• Yes

• No

• It depends on the theory of the investigator

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utterances have the same referential meaning but may have different pragmatic meaning depending on

• word order

• the context in which they are used

• The intention of the speaker

• Both 1 & 2

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the propositional base of an utterance is its

• subjective part

• objective part

• both

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The pragmatic component of an utterance is its

• objective part

• subjective part

• both

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in Austin's Speech Act theory, locutionary acts refer to

• the effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act

• The act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words

• the intention the speaker has when saying or writing something

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In Austin's Speech Act theory, an illucutionary act refers to

• the effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act

• the intention the speaker has when saying or writing something

• the act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words

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a perlocutionary act refers to

• the effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act

• the intention the speaker has when saying or writing something

• The act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words

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According to Austin, speech acts are direct when

• the locutionary and perlocutionary acts coincide

• the locutionary and illocutionary acts coincide

• the illocutionary and perlocutionary acts coincide

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