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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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Total Questions

6

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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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Expert Pragmatics Challenge in Linguistics

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Quiz Questions

Which maxim of Grice's Cooperative Principle is violated by saying 'Some students attended' when all did?

The utterance 'Could you close the window?' primarily performs which type of speech act?

'John stopped smoking' presupposes that:

In Brown and Levinson's theory, negative politeness strategies primarily address threats to:

Which best exemplifies social deixis?

Relevance Theory posits that utterances are interpreted based on the principle of: