LTG2025

Question 1

The utterance “You’ll have to bring it back tomorrow because she isn’t here today” is almost unintelligible without

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Contextual deixis

Question 2

The phrase “Free Beer Tomorrow” exploits which feature of deictic interpretation for humorous effect?

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Temporal deixis

Question 3

Which of the following best demonstrates an indirect speech act?

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The window is open.

Question 4

What helps us interpret ambiguous signs like “Heated Attendant Parking”?

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Dictionary definitions, Shared assumptions and context

Question 5

What is "inference" in pragmatics?

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Deriving hidden meaning from context

Question 6

In the sentence "She isn’t here today," what kind of information is required to understand it?

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Contextual knowledge

Question 7

Which of the following best represents the role of co-text in disambiguating lexical meaning?

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Both B and C

Question 8

Deixis involves pointing to which aspects of communication?

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Person, place, and time

Question 9

Which structure-function pairing is a direct speech act?

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“Did you eat the pizza?” – Question

Question 10

What type of face-saving act is “I know you’re busy, but…”?

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Negative face

Question 11

Which of the following utterances best illustrates the principle of "constancy under negation" in presupposition?

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My sister is not a professional chef.

Question 12

Which of the following is an example of a deictic expression?

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Tomorrow

Question 13

Which of the following best defines “reference”?

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Using language to identify something

Question 14

Which of the following expressions most clearly relies on spatial deixis for correct interpretation?

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Let’s sit over there

Question 15

What does pragmatics primarily study?

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C. Invisible meaning

Question 16

“Can I look at your Chomsky?” is an example of:

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Inference-based interpretation

Question 17

What does the term "co-text" refer to?

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Other words in the same phrase or sentence

Question 18

Why do we interpret “Heated Attendant Parking” as car parking

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Context and shared knowledge guide interpretation

Question 19

What does the term “anaphora” refer to?

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Referring ahead to a future expression

Question 20

the sentence “Jennifer is wearing Calvin Klein,” Which process helps interpret intended meaning?

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Inference

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