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Final Semester Test ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 Subject/Code: Pragmatics / PRT 4442 Day/Date: Saturday/ July 8th, 2017

This document provides information and instructions for a final semester test in Pragmatics at the English Education study program. It outlines the test date and time allocation, as well as credits. It describes the test will have three parts that assess implicature, speech acts, and presupposition through analysis of ambiguous signs, speech functions, and assumptions expressed in utterances. Examples are provided for each part with some answered and others left blank for test takers to analyze and answer.

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Final Semester Test ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 Subject/Code: Pragmatics / PRT 4442 Day/Date: Saturday/ July 8th, 2017

This document provides information and instructions for a final semester test in Pragmatics at the English Education study program. It outlines the test date and time allocation, as well as credits. It describes the test will have three parts that assess implicature, speech acts, and presupposition through analysis of ambiguous signs, speech functions, and assumptions expressed in utterances. Examples are provided for each part with some answered and others left blank for test takers to analyze and answer.

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FINAL SEMESTER TEST

ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

Subject/Code : Pragmatics / PRT 4442


Day/Date : Saturday/ July 8th, 2017
Time Allocation : 100 Minutes (16.20 – 18.00)
Semester/Credit : 8th (Eighth Semester)/ 2 credits
Study Program : English Education
Lecturer : Winny Agustina, M.Pd.

PART I: IMPLICATURE
State the possible meanings of the following ambiguous signs. Number 1 has been done for
you.

1. “A hamburger is a hamburger.” [in a restaurant]


The speaker has no opinion whether the hamburger is good or bad
2. “Push. Push. Push.” [maternity room door]
3. “Eat here and get gas!” [at a gas station]
4. “Drive carefully. We’ll wait.” [in the front yard of a funeral home]
5. A: “Did you invite Bill and Tom?”
B: “I invited Tom.”
6. “Don’t stand there and be hungry. Come on in and get fed up.” [in a restaurant window]
7. A: “I hope you brought the bread and the cheese.”
B: “Ah, I brought the bread.”
8. A: “Do vegetarians eat hamburgers?”
B: “Do chickens have lips?”
9. A: “Where are you going with the dog?”
B: “To the V-E-T.”
10. A: “Whoa! Has your boss gone crazy?”
B: “Let’s go get some coffee.”
11. A: “Do you like ice-cream?”
B: “Is the Pope Catholic?”
PART II: SPEECH ACTS
There are five types of general functions performed by speech acts, they are: declarations,
representatives, expressive, directives, and communicative. State the possible functions of the
following sentences. Number 7 has been done for you.

12. Referee: You’re out


Declarations
13. “The earth is round.”
14. “Congratulations!”
15. “I’ll be back.”
16. “Priest: I pronounce you husband and wife.”
17. “I’m so sorry.”
18. ”Don’t touch that!”
19. Boss: You are fired.
20. “Can you show me the way to the chemist’s, please?”
21. “I want a cup of coffee. Make it black.”
22. Judge: We find the defendant guilty.

PART III: PRESUPPOSITION


In the analysis of how speaker’s assumptions are typically expressed, presuppositions have
been associated with the use of a large number of words, phrases, and structures. Write your
assumption of the following utterance. Number 18 has been done for you.

23. He stopped smoking


(He used to smoke)
24. You’re late again.
25. We regret telling him.
26. I’m glad that it’s over.
27. Where did Jane buy that shirt?
28. We imagined that we were in Bali.
29. He pretends to be ill.
30. When did John leave?
31. I wasn’t aware that she was married.
32. They started complaining.
33. I dreamed that I was rich.

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