Course Title: Semantics and Pragmatics

Programme: BS English Course Code: ENGL

3126

MCQs from Lecture: 2

Topic: Types of Meaning

1. Covers basic, essential components of meaning that are conveyed by the

literal use of a word
A. Associative meaning
B. Connotation
C. Conceptual meaning
D. Collocation
Answer C

2. The study of the meaning of words, phrases and sentences (meaning in s

language)
A. Semantic rolls
B. Semantics
C. Location
D. Pragmatics
Answer B

3. _____ is the meaning which arise in case of multiple conceptual

meaning, when one sense of a word forms part of our response to
another sense
A. Connotative meaning
B. Reflected meaning
C. Affective meaning
D. Thematic meaning
Answer B
4. Which type of meaning vary from person to person and society to
society
A. Conceptual meaning
B. Reflected meaning
C. Thematic meaning
D. Connotative meaning
Answer D

5. _____meaning consists of the associations a word acquires on account of

the meanings of words which tend to occur in its environment
A. Social meaning
B. Affective meaning
C. Collocative meaning
D. Reflected meaning
Answer C

6. They stopped at the end of the corridor. & At the end of the corridor
they stopped, is an Example of
A. Affective meaning
B. Thematic meaning
C. Demarcation
D. Dennotation
Answer B

7. Which type of meaning is peripheral, indeterminate and open ended

A. Denotative meaning
B. Connotative meaning
C. Associative meaning
D. Reflected meaning
Answer B

8. _____refers to what is conveyed about the feeling and attitude of the

speaker through language
A. Affective meaning
B. Reflected meaning
C. Collocative meaning
D. Social meaning
 Answer A

9. In which type of meaning a speaker and writer organizes the message in

term of ordering, focus and emphasis
A. Demarcation
B. Social meaning
C. Thematic meaning
D. Associative meaning
Answer C

10. What is communicated of social circumstances of language use

A. Affective meaning
B. Reflected meaning
C. Collocative Meaning
D. Social meaning
Answer D

MCQs from Lecture: 3

Topic: Semantic Features

1. The basic elements involve in differentiating the meaning of each word

in a language from every other word are (use + and -)
A. Semantic features
B. Semantic analysis
C. Semantics
D. Superordinate terms
Answer A

2. The entity that performs the action; can be human or non-human (--->
the boy kicked the ball).
A. Source
B. Agent
C. Instrument
D. Hyponym
Answer B
3. The entity that is involved in or affected by the action is
A. Denotation
B. Semantic feature
C. Homophones
D. Theme ("patient")
Answer D

4. Where an entity moves from (from Multan)

A. Source
B. Synonyms
C. Agent
D. Polysemy
Answer A

5. Where an entity moves to (To Lahore)

A. Location
B. Goal
C. Agent
D. Metonymy
Answer B

6. Another entity which the agent uses in order to perform the action (The
boy cut the rope with ----> an old razor).
A. Antonyms
B. Source
C. Instrument
D. Theme
Answer C

7. Using "+animate" to describe the noun " boy " and "- animate " to
describe the noun "hamburger" are simple example of a procedure for
analyzing meaning in term of _____.
A. Semantic roles
B. Semantics
C. Implication
D. Semantic features
Answer D
 8. A noun phrase used to designate an entity as the person who has aa
feeling and perception (The boy feel sad).
A. Homophones
B. Metonymy
C. Reversives
D. Experiencer
Answer D

9. _____ are created when the constituents within the sentence describe
the role of entities (we look at the NP in sentence to see who /what is
creating the action in VP); found in each sentence.
A. Semantic analysis
B. Semantics
C. Semantic features
D. Semantic roles
Answer D

10. _____and _____ are the most common semantic roles.

A. Agent and theme
B. Antonyms and hyponyms
C. Semantic features
D. Antonyms and metonyms
Answer A

MCQs from Lecture: 4, 5 & 6

Topic: Lexical Relations

1. Characterizing the meaning of words in terms of its relationship to other

words; Synonymy, Antonymy and Hyponymy.
A. Lexical relationships
B. Semantics Analysis
C. Collocation
D. Gradable Antonymy
Answer A

2. Two words with very closely related meanings.

A. Antonyms
B. Homonyms
 C. Synonyms
D. Hyponyms
Answer C

3. The study of which words occur together, and their frequency of co-
occurrence.
A. Connotation
B. Collocation
C. Metonymy
D. Implication
Answer. B

4. Higher level terms in a hyponymy diagram (animal) are

A. Synonyms
B. Antonyms
C. Super-ordinate terms
D. Homophones
Answer C

5. One form has two or more unrelated meanings (Bat-Flying creature / Bat-
Used in base-ball) is
A. Homonyms
B. Hyponyms
C. Synonyms
D. Polysemy
Answer A

6. Two or more words with the same forms and related meanings by
extensions (foot of a person, of a mountain); based on similarity
A. Metonymy
B. Hyponymy
C. Polysemy
D. Hyponym
Answer C
7. Two forms with opposite meanings
A. Antonyms
B. Synonyms
C. Metonymy
D. Hyponymy
Answer A

8. The relatedness of polysemy is essentially based on similarity (is using one

to refer the other).
A. Synonyms
B. Antonyms
C. Metonymy
D. Hyponyms
Answer C

9. Two or more words that share the same super-ordinate term.

A. Co-hyponyms
B. Synonyms
C. Hyponymy
D. Prototype
Answer A

10. We can say that Toyota & Honda are _________ because they share the
same super-ordinate “economy”.
A. Hyponymy
B. Synonyms
C. Co-Hyponyms
D. Antonyms
Answer C

11.When two or more different written forms have the same pronunciation.
A. Homophones
B. Homonyms
C. a & b
D. Co-Hyponyms
Answer A
12.Direct Opposites (males / Females, Married / Single)
A. Antonyms
B. Gradable Antonyms
C. Non-gradable Antonyms
D. Co-hyponyms
Answer C

MCQs from Lecture: 7

Topic: Contradiction, Ambiguity and Semantic Anomaly

1. Contradiction is the relation between two:

A. Phrases
B. Verbs
C. Proposition
D. Both a & b
Answer C

2. Contradiction is the opposite an :

A. Sentences
B. Analytic sentence
C. Phrases
D. None of these
Answer B

3. Semantic relationship between sentence which display a type of

oppositeness in meaning is:
A. Ambiguity
B. Entailment
C. Semantic anomaly
D. Contradiction
Answer D

4. A word , a phrase or sentence is ambiguous if has:

A. More than one interpretation
B. Less than one interpretation
C. More than three interpretation
 D. Both a & b
Answer A

5. Structural ambiguity occurs when sentence has more than :

A. Two syntactic tree
B. One syntactic tree
C. Three syntactic tree
D. None of these
Answer B

6. Pragmatic ambiguity arises when the statement is not specific and the
content does not provide :
A. The information
B. The context
C. The origin
D. All of these
Answer A

7. This sentence “I will meet you tomorrow .” shows what type of ambiguity:
A. Structural ambiguity
B. Lexical ambiguity
C. Pragmatic ambiguity
D. Semantic ambiguity
Answer C

8. This sentence “I bought a pen for my dog .” shows what type of ambiguity:
A. Lexical ambiguity
B. Semantic ambiguity
C. Structure ambiguity
D. None of these
Answer A

9. Anomaly is a-------- oddness:

A. Pragmatic
B. Structural
C. Semantic
D. Both a & b
 Answer C

10.This sentence “He killed the dead umbrella.” Shows which of the
following:
A. Contradiction
B. Ambiguity
C. Semantic anomaly
D. All of these
Answer C

MCQs from Lecture: 8

Topic: Entailment & Presupposition
1. Sentence have ----------, and speaker have ---------
A. Presupposition, Entailment
B. Entailment, Presupposition
C. Ambiguity, Contradiction
D. Contradiction, Ambiguity
Answer: A

2. He was unhappy” is the non-factive presupposition of:

A. He pretended that he was happy.
B. He couldn’t pretend that he was happy.
C. He pretended that he wasn’t happy.
D. A & B
Answer: D
 
3. Which of the following contains factive presupposition?
A. She still plays the guitar on the street to make a living.
B. Why did John drop out of school?
C. I didn’t notice Tania was there.
D. I wish I had a lot of money
Answer: C
4. Which of the following sentences contains structural presupposition?
A. Da Nang where he started his business is also his hometown.
B. He regretted not confess his love to her.
C. Why was Alison angry last night is a mystery.
D. The man who sitting next to you is my sister’s boyfriend.
Answer: C

5. What are the presupposition of this sentence?

“David started to become a vegan last year.”
A. David likes eating vegetable than meat.
B. David couldn’t eat meat.
C. David used to eat meat.
D. David is a meat lover.
Answer: C

6. Sentences that stand in an implicational relation, where the truth of the

first guarantees the truth of the second
A. Presupposition
B. Entailment
C. Contradiction
D. Ambiguity
Answer: B

7. Entailments depend on sentence meaning, not the context in which the

sentence is used.
A. True
B. False
C. True in some situations
D. False in some situations
Answer: A

8. What is Presupposition?
A. Is something the sentence assumes to be the case prior to making an
utterance.
B. Is something the speaker assumes to be the case prior to making an
utterance.
C. Is something the sentence assumes to be the case after making an
utterance.
D. Is something the speaker assumes to be the case after making an
utterance.
 Answer: B

9. What is true about entailment?

A. Entailment is a purely logical concept.
B. Entailment is a pragmatic concept.
C. Speakers, not sentences, have entailment.
D. Entailment depends on context
Answer: A

10. Determine the type of presupposition of this sentence:

"When did she travel to Germany?"
A. Lexical presupposition
B. Factive presupposition
C. Structural presupposition
D. Existential presupposition
Answer: C

11. What is the correct entailment of the sentence?

“The king was assassinated.”
A. There was a King.
B. The King is still alive.
C. Someone was assassinated.
a. Someone tried to kill the King but didn't succeed.
Answer: C

12. Determine the type of presupposition of this sentence:

“John was aware that his friend was unhappy.”
A. Factive presupposition
B. Non-factive presupposition
C. Existential presupposition
D. Structural presupposition
Answer: A

13. What is the presupposition of this sentence?

"They started arguing again."
A. They liked arguing.
B. They hadn't argued before until then.
C. They had argued before.
D. They have just started arguing.
Answer: C
14. What is the presupposition of this sentence:
“She bought a beautiful big house.”
A. She bought a house.
B. She has lots of money.
C. The house is lovely.
D. The hose is not small.
Answer: B

15. What is the type of presupposition of the underlined phrase?

"The Congress agreed on extended investment plans in education."
A. Potential presupposition
B. Existential presupposition
C. Factive presupposition
D. Non-factive presupposition
Answer: B

16. Determine the type of presupposition of this sentence:

"When did she travel to Germany?"
A. Lexical presupposition
B. Factive presupposition
C. Structural presupposition
D. Existential presupposition
Answer: C

17. Determine the type of presupposition of this sentence:

"Hadn't it been for the delayed flight, I'd have arrived in Hanoi last
evening."
A. Non-factive presupposition
B. Counter-factual presupposition
C. Factive presupposition
D. Structural presupposition
Answer: B

18. Determine the type of presupposition of this sentence:

"Last night I had a dream of becoming a millionaire."
A. Potential presupposition
B. Structural presuppostion
C. Non-factive presupposition
D. Counter-factual presupposition
 Answer: C

19. What is the presupposition of this sentence?

"They took no notice that their luggage were stolen."
A. They didn't pay attention to their luggage.
B. Their luggage were being ignored.
C. Their luggage were stolen.
D. They were careless.
Answer: C

20. Determine the type of presupposition of this sentence:

"We managed to finish the assignments on time."
A. Lexical presupposition
B. Structural presupposition
C. Potential presupposition
D. Factive presupposition
Answer: A

21. Determine the type of presupposition of this sentence:

"We were so surprised that he left without a single word."
A. Existential presupposition
B. Structural presupposition
C. Potential presupposition
D. Factive presupposition
Answer: D

22. Which of the following is TRUE about presupposition?

A. Presupposition is what the speaker assumes to be true after making an
utterance.
B. Presupposition is what the listener infers from a speech.
C. Presupposition is what the speaker believes to be true before saying
something.
D. Sentences have presuppositions.
Answer: C

23. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about entailment?

A. Sentences have entailments.
B. Entailment is a pragmatic concept.
C. Entailments is something that logically follows from what is asserted in
the utterance.
 D. Entailment depends on the sentence meaning.
Answer: B

24. "He was dead." is the .............. of the utterance "He was killed":
A. Deixis
B. Entailment
C. Presupposition
D. Inference
Answer: B

25. "Wish" is a trigger of .............

A. Factive presupposition
B. Non-factive presupposition
C. Structural presupposition
D. Counter-factual presupposition
Answer: D

26. The entities named by the speaker and assumed to be present is ...
presupposition:
A. Existential
B. Factive
C. Lexical
D. Structural
Answer: A

27. Identified by the presence of some verb such as "know", "realize" is

the ....presupposition:
A. Existential
B. Factive
C. Non-factive
D. Conter-factual
Answer: B

28. The... presupposition is an assumption that something is not true, using

verbs like:"dream","imagine","pretend":
A. Factive
B. Non-factive
C. Lexical
D. Structural
Answer: B
29. The... presupposition is the assumption that, in using 1 word, the
speaker can act as if another meaning /word will be understood:
A. Factive
B. Non-factive
C. Lexical
D. Counter-factual
Answer: C

30. The ...presupposition is the assumption associated with the use of

certain words and phrases:
A. Existential
B. Factive
C. Non-factive
D. Structural
Answer: D

31. The...presupposition is the assumption that what is presupposition is

not only untrue, but is the opposite of what is true or contrary to facts:
A. Factive
B. Non-factive
C. Lexical
D. Conter-factual
Answer: D

32. Which sentence is entailing the other sentence correctly given below?
A. I have a blue pen > I have a ballpoint
B. Earth revolves around sun > Earth is stationary
C. The dog is brown > A brown dog
D. He is short and cute > Not short not cute
Answer: C

33. Correct statement about non-factive presupposition.

A. Assumption referred to something wrong
B. Structure is already assume as true
C. Assumption of non-existence
D. Assumption of facts
Answer: A
 34. In presupposition which one assumes the situation?
A. Listener
B. Reader
C. Object
D. Speaker
Answer: D

35. Sequence of entailment:

A. Ambigious
B. Logical
C. Illogical
D. Transparent
Answer: B

36. Potential presupposition can only become actual presupposition in:

A. Meaning
B. Context
C. Structure
D. Sentence
Answer: B

MCQs from Lecture: 10

Topic: Types of Meaning & Theory of Meaning

1. "Relationship between the linguistic elements, words, sentences etc.

and the non-linguistic word of experience" this define introduced by;
A. Allan
B. Palmer, 1981
C. Saeed 2004
D. Champan 2012
Answer B

2. The meaning of linguistic expressions derieves from two sources one

is "the word they describe" and the other one is;
A. Language of that part
B. Surface meaning of sentence
C. Grammatical error
D. None of these
Answer A
3. Sense relationship including the theory of
A. Collocation
B. Homonymy
C. Antonymy
D. Synonymy
Answer D

4. "A very large animal with grey skin, large ears and two curved teeth
called tusks" Dictionary meaning of that sentence is;
A. Lion
B. Rhino sore
C. Elephant
D. Lizard
Answer C

5. The speaker deliberately describes something in untrue and

impossible terms in order to achieve special effort called;
A. Literal meaning
B. Non-literal meaning
C. Both of these
D. None of these
Answer: B

6. The meaning of chair is partially defined by the existence of other

words like;
A. Stool
B. Cot
C. Bed
D. Soffa
Answer A

7. Piece of furniture with a flat top and legs used to read and write; the
dictionary word is,
A. Bed
B. Soffa
C. Chair
D. Desk
Answer D
 8. The term for the phenomenon of one word having two or more
separate but still traceably related meaning;
A. Hyponymy
B. Homonymy
C. Synonymy
D. Polysemy
Answer D

MCQs from Lecture: 11

Topic: Structural Semantics
1. Hierarchical presentation brings out facts by a mere listening of ____
smaller stem-classes all on a par.
A. Eight
B. Ten
C. Three
D. Eight or ten
Answer D

2. Structuralism considers ____ in a language.

A. Structure
B. System
C. Grammar
D. Structure and system
Answer D

3. Structuralism emphasis on the analysis of sense relations that

connect ____.
A. Words
B. Meanings
C. Structure
D. Words and meanings
Answer D

4. The father of generative grammar us ____.

A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
 C. Eve Clark
D. Edward Sapir
Answer A

5. "Air is necessary for human life", condition is ____.

A. Necessary
B. Sufficient
C. Relevant
D. None of these
Answer A

6. "The batteries are good" is ____ condition.

A. Relevant
B. Sufficient
C. Necessary condition that is not sufficient
D. Both a and b
Answer C

7. Certain ____ relation are converse of one another.

A. One place relation
B. Two place relation
C. Three place relation
D. Sense relation
Answer B

MCQs from Lecture: 12

Topic:

1. Prototype theory as developed by:

A. Rosch
B. Petrick
C. Yule
D. Foder
Answer A
2. Two main areas of linguistic are:
A. Lexical semantics
B. Syntax
C. Semantics and syntax
D. Morphology
Answer C

3. Rosch introduced basic level of categorization:

A. 3
B. 4
C. 6
D. 2
Answer A

4. The good example of prototype of the bird category is:

A. Robin and ostrich
B. Ostrich
C. Penguin
D. Ostrich and penguin
Answer A

5. A prototype is a _____ reference point :

A. Cognitive
B. Psychology
C. Memory
D. All of these
Answer D

6. “Rock” and “Tree” are prototypical :

A. Nouns
B. Pronouns
C. Verb
D. Adjective
Answer A
 7. Which are the basic level of categorization:
A. Superordinate level: fruit
B. Basic level: apple
C. Ordinate: cherry
D. Both A and B
Answer D

8. Categories are defined by an intersection of properties that make up

their members. members that have ______ are the prototype members:
A. All properties
B. Less properties
C. Some properties
D. None properties
Answer A

9. Prototype gave a good example of:

A. Classical theories
B. Componentional theories
C. Both A and B
D. Referential theories
Answer C

10.A prototype can be in the form of :

A. Paper, 3D printing
B. Digital, small model
C. Limited usage product
D. All of these
Answer D

MCQs from Lecture: 13

Topic: Linguistic Relativity (Lecture 1)

1. In which cognition human language depends upon?

A. Linguistic
B. Philosophy
C. Psychology
 D. None of above.
Answer C

2. Correct idea about Linguistic Relativity?

A. Speakers of different languages think differently.
B. Speakers of different languages think same.
C. Speakers of same language think different.
D. It cannot affect the speaker’s way of thinking.
Answer A

3. Correct ideas about linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism?

A. Speaker of language shows the way he thinks (L.R.).
B. Things thought by person fully determined by using language.
C. Both a & b
D. None of these.
Answer C

4. Weaker form of linguistic determinism?

A. Society
B. Relations
C. Linguistics (language)
D. Linguistic Relativity
Answer D

5. Language might have significant effects on __________.

A. Seeing
B. Speaking
C. Hearing
D. Thought
Answer D

6. Plato’s idea about language as language-of-thought:

A. ‘Thinking is speaking to ourselves.’
B. ‘Language is identical to thought.’
C. ‘The soul when thinking appears to me to be just talking.’
D. None of these.
Answer C
7. Concept of linguistic relativity was championed in?
A. 1940s
B. 1950s
C. 1960s
D. 1970s
Answer B

8. Linguistic determinism holds that differences in language cause

differences in __________.
A. Differences in thought
B. Differences in speech
C. Differences in listening
D. Differences in watching
Answer A

9. Thinking of speaking needs:

A. Thinking activity
B. Mental activity
C. Speaking activity
D. Both a & b
Answer D

10.How many ideas of linguistic relativity comprised?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Answer C
MCQs from Lecture: 14
Topic: Linguistic Relativity (Lecture 2)

1. When the linguistic and non-linguistic codes are consistent with each
other, they facilitate with
A. Speed
B. Accuracy
C. Phonemes
D. Both a and b
Answer D

2. Grammatical gender is mostly refers to the future of ---- among most

languages
A. Adjective
B. Noun
C. Pronoun
D. Adverb
Answer B

3. The conflict of word “bridge” is among which two languages

A. German, Spanish
B. French, Spanish
C. Greek, German
D. Greek, Spanish
Answer A

4. Which number system allows, infants adults and animals to

discriminate larger Quantities:
A. First system
B. Second system
C. Third system
D. First, second system
Answer B
 5. Which system of language is not thought to be innate?
A. First system
B. Second system
C. Third system
D. Third, Second system
Answer C

MCQs from Lecture: 15

Topic: Language of Thought Hypothesis

1. Meaning of the sentence depends on.

A. Components words
B. Sentence words
C. Structure words
Answer A

2. Loth quiet popular during.

A. Victorian period
B. Medieral period
C. Romantic period
Answer B

3. 1970s Loth revived dramatically as "Language of thought" by....got

publish in 1975.
A. Jerry fodor
B. Wolff
C. Holmes
Answer A

4. The mental belief or state are called... e.g.) Marry walk to refrigerator
because she believed there was orange juice.
A. Propositional attitude
B. Oppositional attitude
C. Compositional attitude
Answer A

5. Propositional attitude also known as.

A. Intential state
 B. Internal state
C. Outer state
Answer A

6. Loth theories claim that mentalese expression have.

A. Logic form
B. Syntactic form
C. Unlogic form
Answer A

7. Loth arguments are.

A. Two
B. Three
C. One
Answer B

8. Objection to Loth.
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
Answer A

9. Connectionist challenge is different from.

A. Turning style computation
B. Tuning style computation
C. Systematic
Answer A

10.Loth proposes that thinking occurs in.

A. Mental language
B. Written language
C. Spoken language
D. A and C both
Answer D
MCQs from Lecture: 16
Topic: Politeness principles

1. ______ is the system of interpersonal relations designed to facilitate

the interaction by minimizing the potentials for conflict and
confrontation inherent in all human interchange.
A. Pragmatics
B. Semantics
C. Politeness
D. None of these
Answer C

2. Leech defines politeness as form of ______ that establish and

maintain comity.
A. Discussion
B. Behavior
C. Believe
D. None of these
Answer B

3. Pragmatics is concern with the study of ______ as communicated by

a speaker and interpreted by a listener.
A. Words
B. Meaning
C. Sentence
D. Context
Answer B

4. Speech act is created when a speaker or a writer makes a ______ to a

hearer or a reader in the context.
A. Utterance
B. Fluency
C. None of these
D. Rhythm
Answer A
5. Indirect utterance trends to be more _______
A. Hard
B. Polite
C. None of these
D. Simple
Answer B

6. _______ Scales are used to determine the degrees of politeness.

A. Four
B. Three
C. Two
D. Five
Answer D

7. The politeness principles divided into _______ maximize.

A. Five
B. Four
C. None of these
D. Six
Answer D

8. Maxims require the participants to minimize cost other and

maximize benefit to other.
A. Tact maxim
B. Generosity maxim
C. Approbation maxim
D. None of these
Answer A

9. ______ Maxim requires a speaker and a hearer to maximize

sympathy and minimize antipathy between them
A. Tact maxims
B. Sympathy maxims
C. None of them
D. Agreement maxims
Answer B
 10.Scale indicates the degree of politeness
A. Optionality scale
B. Indirectness scale
C. None of these
D. Social distance scale
Answer B

MCQs from Lecture: 17

Topic: Politeness

1. Means learning to accommodate to others within a social group.

A. Pragmatics
B. Sociolinguistics
C. Politeness
D. All of above
Answer: C

2. The way that people choose to speak and how their listeners react to
what they say:
A. Politeness
B. A Politeness strategy
C. Positive politeness
D. Linguistics Politeness
Answer: D

3. Engaging in aggressive face work in particular contexts to cause social

disruption is called:
A. Face Threatening Act
B. Negative face
C. Impoliteness
D. All of these
Answer: C

4. Politeness is a:
A. Communicative strategy
B. Socio pragmatic phenomenon
 C. Social phenomenon
D. All of these
Answer: D

5. The desire to see one’s action unimpeded by others and the need to
have freedom from imposition refers to:
A. Speech act
B. Negative face
C. Politeness
D. Positive face
Answer: B

6. The desire to be appreciated as a social person, and it is the need to be

connected, to belong and to be a member of the group refers to:
A. Speech act
B. Negative face
C. Politeness
D. Positive face
Answer: D

7. Preserving or intended to preserve one’s dignity, self-respect or good

reputation is:
A. Face threatening
B. Negative face
C. Face saving
D. Positive face
Answer: C

8. “Change in social identity of interlocutors involve change in rights and

obligation”, this statement refers to:
A. Social norm approach
B. Conversational contact approach
C. Conversation maxim approach
D. Face management approach
Answer: B
 9. “I’m sorry to bother you. I know you are busy.” These refers to:
A. Positive face
B. Negative face
C. Face saving
D. Face threatening
Answer: B

10.If we assume an argument e.g. “so when are you coming to see us?” ,
this refers to:
A. Positive face
B. Negative face
C. Politeness
D. None of above
Answer: A

MCQs from Lecture: 19

Topic: Cooperative principle

1. Cooperative principle is a……..phenomenon

A. Economic
B. Social
C. Classical
D. None of these
Answer B

2. Who use this term firstly…..

A. Hardy
B. J.S
C. Noam
D. Grice
Answer D

3. Conversation is governed by the

A. Politeness
B. Cooperation
C. A & B both
D. None of these
 Answer B

4. Without cooperation in participants makes conversation

A. Efficient
B. More efficient
C. Not possible
D. None of these
Answer C

5. How many maxims introduces by Grice?

A. 6
B. 8
C. 4
D. 3
Answer C

6. In which maxims relate your point to what is already discuss

A. Quantity
B. Quality
C. Manner
D. None of these
Answer D

7. In maxim of manner make contribution

A. Be brief
B. Avoid obscurity
C. A & B both
D. be disorderly
Answer C

8. Do not make your contribution more informative than is required in

which maxim
A. Quantity
B. Quality
C. Relevant
D. Manner
Answer A
 9. Our talk exchanges are…….
A. Observation
B. Cooperative Principle
C. Conversation
D. None of these
Answer B

10.………is the origin of the implication of meaning conveyed

A. Orderly
B. Confused
C. Flouting
D. Violated
Answer C

MCQs from Lecture: 20

Topic: Cooperative principle

1. It was introduced by Grice_______

A. In 1975
B. In 1875
C. In 1955
D. In 1855
Answer A

2. Grice holds view that speakers intend to be______ when they talk
A. Cooperative
B. Conversational
C. Contribution
D. Both a and b
Answer A

3. Our talk exchanges are_______

A. Conversation
B. Observation
C. Cooperative principle
 D. None of these
Answer C

4. The maxim informs about quality of information:

A. Do not say what you believe to be false
B. Do not that for which you lack adequate evidence
C. Both a and b
D. None of these
Answer C

5. The maxim deal with how much information is relevant:

A. Make your contribution relevant
B. Relate your point to what is already talked about
C. None of these
D. Both a and b
Answer D

6. The maxim of manner

A. Avoid obscurity, ambiguity
B. Be brief
C. Be orderly
D. All of these
Answer D

7. Do not make your contribution ________than is required

A. Talked
B. More informative
C. Relevant
D. Quality
Answer B

8. Look at how an information is_________

A. Communication
B. Conveyed
C. Speaker
D. Manner
Answer A
9. The second is that not all language occurs the ______ talk exchanges
A. The context of language
B. The context of quality
C. The context of cooperative
D. None of these
Answer C

10.____is the origin of the implication meaning conveyed

A. Confuse
B. Flouting
C. Violated
D. Orderly
Answer B

1. Who introduced cooperative principle?

A. Grice
B. Sperber
C. Wilson
D. b and c
Answer A

2. Grice holds the view that speakers intends to be cooperative when

they----?
A. Write
B. Listen
C. Talk
D. All of these
Answer C

3. How many maxims were given by Grice?

A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
Answer C
4. “Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence”, this statement
is in which maxim?
A. Maxim of Quality
B. Maxim of Relevance
C. Maxim of Quantity
D. Maxim of Manner
Answer A

5. Point about Grice’s example is that the analysis always depends on it

being possible to say?
A. That an implicature is clearly being conveyed
B. That an implicature is ambiguiously being conveyed
C. Not more or less than this implicature is
D. That an implicature is not being conveyed
Answer A

6. The second observation about implicature was?

A. All languages occurs in the context of cooperative talk exchanges
B. Only one language occurs in the context of cooperative talk exchanges
C. Not all languages occur in the context of cooperative talk exchange
D. We often talk in a much more literal way than Grice’s treatment
suggests
Answer C

7. “Make your contribution as informative as is required for the current

purposes of the exchange”, this statement is from which maxim?
A. Quality
B. Quantity
C. Manner
D. Relevance
Answer D

8. The cooperative principle was introduced by Grice in?

A. 1970
B. 1975
C. 1965
D. 1985
Answer B
 9. Which of the following point is from “the Maxim of Quality”?
A. Do not say what you believe to be false
B. Make your contributions relevant
C. Do say what you believe to be false
D. Do not make your contribution more informative than is required
Answer A

10.To confuse or to bore is relevant to?

A. Maxim of Quality
B. Maxim of Relevance
C. Maxim of Quantity
D. None of these
Answer D

MCQs from Lecture: 22

Topic: Diexis

1. Deixis refers to words that could be fully understood without:

A. Conceptual information
B. Thematic information
C. Contextual information
D. None of these.
Answer C

2. Deixis depends upon:

A. Listener
B. Speaker
C. Writer
D. All of above.
Answer B

3. It is expressed in English as:

A. Personal pronouns
B. Demonstratives
C. Adverbs
D. All of above
 Answer D

4. It is a:
A. Listener-centric notion
B. Speaker-centric notion.
C. Writer-centric notion.
D. Reader-centric notion
Answer B

5. The term “Deictic expression” comes from:

A. Latin word
B. English word
C. Greek word
D. None of these
Answer C

6. We faced deictic expressions in everyday language:

A. Consciously
B. Unconsciously
C. Both a and b
D. None of these
Answer C

7. The context created by the act of utterance and participation is:

A. Person
B. Location
C. Spatiotemporal context
D. All of above.
Answer C

8. Speaker used deictic elements while:

A. Listening language
B. Producing language
C. Arranging language
D. All of above.
Answer B
MCQs from Lecture: 24
Topic: Language communication and pragmatics

1. Language is the system of transfer and to inform something through;

A. Utterance
B. Communication
C. Talking
D. Connection
Answer: B

2. In the case of communication, the language may depend on the ;

A. Situation
B. Communication event
C. Category
D. None of these
Answer: A

3. In communication activity the listener must have good

A. Collocation
B. Speaker voice audible
C. Background knowledge
D. Cooperation
Answer: D

4. Pragmatics is the branch of linguistic which focused on;

A. Study of whole meaning of communication
B. Analysis
C. Study of context from the point of view of its user
D. All of these
Answer: C

5. Pragmatics deals with

A. Literal meaning
B. Utterance
C. Both of these
D. None of these
Answer: B
 6. Grice communication means to arrive at intended meaning;
A. Meaning from language not enough
B. No need of language meaning
C. Language attention
D. Intentional language
Answer: A

7. Interlocutors are cooperative even in quarrel situation. If they are

not cooperative its mean the communication are
A. Denyable
B. Compatible
C. Successful
D. Fail
Answer: D

8. The maxims of quantity be brief; for example.. Where is your mom?

Your reply are?
A. My mom was doing some work and now she is not at home
B. My mom is busy in her work and i don't know where she is
C. My mom is cooking food for us now
D. My mom is home.
Answer: D

MCQs from Lecture: 25

Topic: Implicature

1. Who suggests that implicature basically related to the cooperative

principal of pragmatic?
A. Yule
B. Wren
C. Grice
Answer C

2. How much types of implicatures?

A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
 Answer A

3. Which implicature is not based on the cooperative principal or maxim?

A. conversational
B. Conventional
C. Both
Answer B

4. Which has the meaning actual conversation is starated?

A. Explicity
B. Implicity
C. None of these
Answer A

5. How much types of implicature according to Yule?

A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
Answer B

6. (All most, few, many, some) Which are listed from the highest to the
lowest vale: which type of implicature?
A. Conversational
B. particlized conversational
C. Scaler conversational
Answer C

7. Which type of implicature in which interlacutors indirectally require

more assistance to understanding the meaning of conversational?
A. Scalar conversational
B. Particulized conversational
C. Both
Answer B

8. Conversational implicatures are:

A. Calculabel
B. Non-calculabel
 C. Both
Answer A

9. Which implicature depend on special context?

A. Conversational
B. Conventional
C. None of these
Answer B

10.Which implicature in contrast to all the conversational implicatures?

A. Conversational
B. Conventional
C. Both
Answer A

MCQs from Lecture: 26

Topic: Cross Culture Communication

1. Barrier to cross culture communication is ______

A. Social habits
B. Body language
C. a and b
D. None
Answer C

2. How many elements of culture_______

A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
Answer D

3. Which of the following words can add in culture's definition,

A. Values
B. Behavior
C. None
 D. a and b
Answer D

4. There are basic components of culture

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Answer B

5. In seven elements of culture include the following

A. Custom
B. Religion
C. Economic system
D. All
Answer D

6. Cross culture communication is process of sharing meaning with people

through
A. Verbal
B. Non-verbal
C. A and b
D. None
Answer C

MCQs from Lecture: 27

Topic: Cross Culture Pragmatics

1. How many main communication styles?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 66
Answer C
 2. “I clearly express that we both have rights and needs” this an example
of which communication style?
A. Assertive
B. Aggressive
C. Passive
D. Passive aggression
Answer A

3. How many primary approaches for intellectual communication?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Answer D
4. “Others rights and needs take precedence over mine” this is an example
of which communication style?
A. Assertive
B. Passive
C. Passive aggression
D. Aggression
Answer B

5. Which you think is a barrier of cross cultural communication?

A. Ethnocentrism
B. Cultural awareness
C. Stereotype
D. Both a and c
Answer D

MCQs from Lecture: 29

Topic: Persuasive Writing

1. To convince the reader to believe or do something is in…….

A. Expositive writing
B. Descriptive writing
 C. Persuasive writing
D. Narrative writing
Answer C

2. We find persuasive writing in…..

A. Advertisement
B. Newspaper
C. Political cartoon
D. All of these
Answer D

3. Persuasive argument should have……

A. claim
B. disclaim
C. rebut
D. all of these
Answer A

4. Thesis statement or claim avoid….

A. Clear language
B. Unclear language
C. Second person
D. Perceptible
Answer B

5. Which one is not example of persuasive writing……

A. Conceal
B. Blog
C. Tweet
D. Face book
Answer A

6. Which one is the example of persuasive language…..

A. Advertisement
B. Suppress
 C. Hush
D. Withhold
Answer A

7. What technique did you use in persuasive essay?

A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Analogies
D. All of these
Answer D

8. In persuasive writing a writer takes a position____ or ____ an

issue……..
A. For
B. Against
C. Pro
D. A and b
Answer D