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PEC 1 2023

SECTION 1
1. The utterance “She is shy but nice” reflects…
a direct way of saying that shy people are not nice.
a direct way of saying that shy people are nice.
an indirect way of saying that shy people are not nice.

2. The marker Well in B’s utterance includes example of…


A: Are you sure you are going to quit?
B: Well; I don’t know yet…
grammaticalization.
conventionalization.
the two answers are correct.

3. When a non-native member interacts with a native member of a particular


culture, we are referring to a case of…
intracultural communication.
Intercultural communication.
cross-cultural communication.

4. B’s utterance in the following exchange is an example of…


A: I think our teacher is quite handsome.
B: If our teacher is handsome I’m Elvis Presley.
Conventionalized expression.
Pragmatic strategy.
Both answers are correct.

5. In the following exchange between a customer and a waiter, the waiter’s


utterance is understood as…
Customer: Can I have the bill, please?
Waiter: Sure! Cash or credit?
an indirect way of asking for preference when paying.
a conventionalized expression.
an underdetermined utterance.

6. What type of illocutionary act can you identify in the following utterance?
The evidence that the employee had been stealing warranted her immediate
dismissal.
Representative
Commissive
Declaration

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7. What type of performative does the following utterance prototypically
exemplify?
I promise to finish the work by the end of the week.
Ritual
Collaborative
Metalinguistic

8. The following utterance is an example of…


Don’t be late!
An explicit performative.
An explicit constative.
An implicit performative.

9. What type of infelicities can you identify in the following situation?


Your friend, who is not a priest, baptizes your baby.
Misinvocation
Misexecution
Abuse

10. What is the perlocutionary effect of the illocutionary act uttered by A?


A: Could you lend me a pen?
B: Sure! No problem.
The act of giving B the pen.
The act of asking for permission.
The act of persuading B

11. The expression in bold in B’s answer is an example of...


A: I’d love to go to the cinema tonight.
B: Let's go then!
a grammaticalized unit.
a conventionalized ironic answer.
a request.

12. B’s answer in the following exchange, meaning “I don’t believe what you say”
is an example of…
A: I can do that in five minutes.
B: Yes, and I am Mary Queen of Scotts!
a conventionalized indirect meaning.
a grammaticalized indirect meaning.
None of the two

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13. The utterance “Tom is Russian but speaks good English” constitutes...
a direct way of saying that the speaker believes Russian people do not generally
speak good English.
a direct way of saying that the speaker believes Russian people are generally
good at speaking English.
an indirect way of saying that the speaker believes Russian people are generally
not good speakers of English.

14. The illocutionary act performed by Peter’s utterance is…


Peter: Raisa, please, I’d love you to come to my party.
Raisa: O.K., if you put it like that…
A request.
An invitation.
Both answers are correct.

15. Specify the type of illocutionary speech act performed by B, and whether it is
direct or indirect:
B: Mate, could you please give me $10?
Direct command.
Indirect pledge.
Indirect request.

16. What would be a very possible perlocutionary act produced by the following
utterance (said by a mother to her child who is crying)?
Oh, come here you silly sausage!
Uttering a sentence.
Comforting.
Insulting.

17. The direction of fit of the following utterance is…


Helen guaranteed that it would not happen again.
World to words.
Words to world.
Both answers are correct.

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SECTION 2

1. In the following exchange, that is an instance of…


A: I think John is going through a bad time.
B: That’s what I said before.
time deixis.
discourse deixis.
person deixis.

2. What type of reference can you identify in the NP in bold?


Watch out for that curve (inside a car).
Ideophoric
Esphoric
Exophoric

3. The phrase “He was blamed for having insulted her” triggers a ….
presupposition.
connotative
factive
existential

4. The word Even in: “Even babies know how to follow the recipe!” triggers the …
to follow.
conversational implicature
conventional implicature
syllogism

5. What maxim of the Cooperative Principle is B flouting in the following


exchange?
A: Would you like to go to the cinema? I have one extra ticket.
B: I have to work today, or else I’ll never finish.
Relation
Manner
Quality

6. What kind of referring expression in the noun phrase (in bold) in the following
utterance?
The only important thing is to have the right tools.
Specific
Generic
Definite

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7. What kind of referring expression is the noun phrase (in bold) in the following
utterance?
A friend of mine came to visit.
Specific
Generic
Definite

8. What kind of referring expression is the noun phrase (in bold) in the following
utterance?
The tall man on the left is your brother’s teacher.
Specific
Explicit
Both answers are correct

9. What kind of reference do we find in the pronoun in bold?


Liz walked out of the room. She looked amazing!
Cataphoric
Anaphoric
Esphoric

10. What kind of reference do we find in the expression in bold?


We had met them before in town. However, it was a surprise to see them in that
restaurant.
Bridging
Cataphoric
Ideophoric

11. What type of deixis does the expression in bold exhibit?


It’s time to go, Madam.
Time
Discourse
Social

12. Which Gricean Maxim is flouted by B in the following exchange?


A: Isn't she nice?
B: Oh yes! As nice as a toothache...
Maxim of Relevance.
Maxim of Quantity.
Both answers are correct.

13. The word "again" in the following utterance presupposes that Muriel had failed
the exam before. What type of presupposition is this?
Muriel has failed her Math’s test again.
Existential
Factive
Connotation

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14. The utterance below presupposes or implicates that if you are good at History,
you can’t be good at Chemistry. What type of implicature is this?
Although Alan is good at History, he got the best marks in the Chemistry test
last week.
Generalized Conversational Implicature.
Particularized Conversational Implicature.
Conventional Implicature.

15. What maxim is flouted by B in the following exchange?


A: Have you seen his message? Incredible! He must be the only person who
doesn’t know that the deadline has been postponed!
B: He’s so on top of the project! (laughing)
Maxim of Relevance
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of Quality

16. What type of non-observance of the Quantity Maxim of the Coopertaive


Principle can be seen in B’s answer?
A: Do you think that they are together?
B: I have no idea. You better ask them yourself if you are that interested.
Infringement
Opting out
Flouting

17. Which of the following properties is NOT a property of conversational


implicatures?
Cancellability
Calculability
Non-cancellability

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