Languages & Linguistics

Expert Pragmatics Challenge in Linguistics

Assess advanced insights into how context shapes linguistic meaning through precise, demanding questions on pragmatic principles.

#pragmatics#relevance theory#Grice maxims#politeness theory#deixis#presupposition#speech acts#implicature

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hard

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Quiz Questions

Answer all questions below and test your knowledge.

1
Which maxim of Grice's Cooperative Principle is violated by saying 'Some students attended' when all did?
Question 1
2
The utterance 'Could you close the window?' primarily performs which type of speech act?
Question 2
3
'John stopped smoking' presupposes that:
Question 3
4
In Brown and Levinson's theory, negative politeness strategies primarily address threats to:
Question 4
5
Which best exemplifies social deixis?
Question 5
6
Relevance Theory posits that utterances are interpreted based on the principle of:
Question 6

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