Quiz 1

Question 0

Speech act

Answer 0

The action performed by producing an utterance.

Question 0

Expressive speech act

Answer 0

State what the speaker feels.

Question 0

Negative face

Answer 0

A persons need to be independent and not imposed upon by others.

Question 1

Face saving act

Answer 1

Saying something to lessen the possible threat.

Question 3

Regularity

Answer 3

Acting in regular ways when it comes to language.

Question 3

Antecedent

Answer 3

The initial expression used to identify someone or something.

Question 4

Maxims

Answer 4

One of the four sub principles of the cooperative principle. Quantity - informative information but no more tan required. Quality - contribution that is true. Relation - be relevant. Manner - avoid ambiguity.

Question 5

Locutionary

Answer 5

Basic act of an utterance.

Question 5

Commissive speech act

Answer 5

Used by speakers to commit to future actions.

Question 6

Cooperative principle

Answer 6

Making conversational contributions such as is required.

Question 8

Reference

Answer 8

An act in which a speaker uses words to enable a listener to identify something.

Question 9

Illocutionary act

Answer 9

Forming an utterance with some kind of function in mind.

Question 10

Cross cultural pragmatics

Answer 10

Study of different expectations among different communities regarding how meaning is constructed.

Question 11

Positive politeness strategy

Answer 11

Appealing to a common goal or friendship to get something.

Question 12

Representative speech act

Answer 12

State what the speaker believes to be the case or not.

Question 14

Anaphor

Answer 14

The word used to maintain a reference.

Question 15

IFID

Answer 15

Illocutionary Force Indicating Device. Indication in what the speaker says and the force behind that communication.

Question 16

Directive speech act

Answer 16

Sized by speakers to make someone do something.

Question 17

Syntax

Answer 17

The study of the structure connecting linguistic forms.

Question 17

Context

Answer 17

The physical environment in which a word is used.

Question 19

Felicity conditions

Answer 19

Expected or appropriate circumstances for the performance of a speech act.

Question 20

Face

Answer 20

Public self image.

Question 21

Presupposition

Answer 21

Something the speaker assumes to be the case prior to making an utterance.

Question 23

Pragmatics

Answer 23

The study of the relationships between linguistic forms and thos who use them.

Question 24

Deixis

Answer 24

Pointing with language.

Question 25

Entailment

Answer 25

Considered a purely logical concept.

Question 26

Indirect speech act

Answer 26

Indirect relationship between structure and function.

Question 27

Co-text

Answer 27

Environment in which a word is used.

Question 28

Face threatening act

Answer 28

Threat to someone’s self image.

Question 30

Perlocutionary act

Answer 30

Our intended effect of an utterance.

Question 31

Semantics

Answer 31

The study of the relationship between linguistic forms and entities in the world, how words literally connect.

Question 32

Floor

Answer 32

Current right to speak in a conversation.

Question 33

Speech event

Answer 33

An activity in which people interact with language to arrive at some outcome.

Question 34

Tautologies

Answer 34

Purely pointless expressions.

Question 35

Politeness

Answer 35

The means employed to show awareness of another persons face.

Question 36

Positive face

Answer 36

A persons need to be accepted by others.

Question 37

Declaration speech act

Answer 37

Speech acts that change the world via their utterance.

Question 38

Inference

Answer 38

To infer correctly what the speaker is talking about.

Question 39

Direct speech act

Answer 39

Direct relationship between structure and function.