语用学作业

第八章语用学作业

I.

Choose the best answer.

1.

When

a

speaker

expresses

his

intention

of

speaking,

such

as

asking

someone

to

open the window, he is performing

A. an illocutionary act.

B. a perlocutionary act.

C. a locutionary act.

D. none of the above.

2. Y

’

s utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maxim of ___.

X: Who was that you were with last night?

Y: Did you know that you were wearing odd socks?

A. quality

B. quantity

C. relation

D. manner

3.

If

we

think

of

a

sentence

as

what

people

actually

utter

in

the

course

of

communication, it becomes a (n) _________.

A. constative

B. directive

C. utterance

D. expressive

4. Which of the following is true?

A. Utterances usually do not take the form of sentences.

B. Some utterances cannot be restored to complete sentences.

C. No utterances can take the form of sentences.

D. All utterances can be restored to complete sentences.

5. Speech act theory did not come into being until __________.

A. in the late 50’s of the 20the century

B. in the early 1950’s

C. in

the late 1960’s

D. in

the early 21st

century

6. __________ is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the

consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance.

A.

A

locutionary

act

B.

An

illocutionary act

C. A perlocutionary act

D. A performative act

7. Most of the violation of the maxims of the CP give rise to ______.

A. breakdown of conversation

B. confusion of one

’

s intention

C. hostility between speakers and the listeners

D. conversational implicatures

8. All the acts that belong to the same category share the same purpose, but they differ

__________.

A. in their illocutionary acts

B. in their intentions expressed

C. in their strength or force

D. in their effect brought about

9. __________ is advanced by Paul Grice

A.

Cooperative

Principle

B.

Politeness

Principle

C. The General Principle of Universal Grammar

D. Adjacency Principle

10.

When

any

of

the

maxims

under

the

cooperative

principle

is

flouted,

_______

might arise.