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Chapter Eight
Exercise
I.
Choose
the best answer.
1.
What essentially
distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether
in the study
of meaning ______ is
considered.
A. reference
B.
speech act
C. practical
usage
D. context
2.
“Logic and Conversation”
was written by ______.
A. H.P. Grice
B.
William James
C. Stephen Levinson
D. John Austin
3. According
to the conversational maxim of _______ suggested
by Grice, one should
speak truthfully.
A.
quantity
B. quality
C. relevance
D.
manner
4.
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
5.
____
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
6.
All of the following are
characteristics of implicature EXCEPT_______.
A.
conventionality
B.
cancellability
C.
non-detachability
D.
calculability
7. The theory of meaning
which relates the meaning of a word to the things
it refers
to or stands for is known as
the ________.
A. An integrated Theory
B. Speech Act Theory
C. The Conceptual Theory
D.
The Referential Theory
8. Which of the
following can best describe the relationship
between
“
They have six
cows
”
and
“
They have some
animals
”
? _______
A. presupposition
B. synonym
C. antonym
D. entailment
9.
In which of
the following aspects conversational implicature
theory and speech act
theory are
different ?
A.
how contextual meaning is generated.
B. how much the implied
meaning is dependent on the context.
C. how much role the
conventional meaning of words plays.
indeterminate the implied
meaning is.
10.
‘
I hereby declare the
starting of the war
’
reflects the ______ function of language.
A. informative
B. interpersonal
C. performative
D. emotive
11.
Which of the
following statements is true about John Langshaw
Austin ?
A.
He
classified
the
following
five
types
of
speech
acts
performed
by
sentences:
representative,
directive, interrogative, expressive and
declarative acts.
B. He accounted for why people always
spoke indirectly in daily conversation.
C. He finally
realized that there was no clear boundary between
performatives and
constatives.
D.
Austin
proposed
the
felicity
conditions
to
stress
performatives
can
be
true
or
false.