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The document contains a quiz with 10 multiple choice questions about pragmatics. Pragmatics is defined as the study of language use and context, including how speakers mean more than what is literally said. It involves interpreting implied or hidden meanings based on contextual factors like social relationships and physical settings. The questions test understanding of key pragmatic concepts like speaker meaning, contextual meaning, and implied meanings.

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The document contains a quiz with 10 multiple choice questions about pragmatics. Pragmatics is defined as the study of language use and context, including how speakers mean more than what is literally said. It involves interpreting implied or hidden meanings based on contextual factors like social relationships and physical settings. The questions test understanding of key pragmatic concepts like speaker meaning, contextual meaning, and implied meanings.

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Direction: Answer the following questions (in ¼ sheet of paper)

1. The study of the relations between languages and their users.


a. Pragmatics c. Morphology
b. Semantic d. Phonology

2. It is concerned with the interpretation of the speaker meaning by the speaker meaning by the
listener.
a. pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning
b. Pragmatics is the study of how more gets communicated than is said
c. Pragmatics is the study of the expression of relative distance
d. Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning

3. This means that you as a listener have to investigate the invisible meaning
a. Pragmatics is the study of how more gets communicated than is said
b. Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning
c. Pragmatics is the study of the expression of relative distance
d. pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning

4. it is about the interpretation of what people exactly mean in a specific context and how the
context influences what is said.
a. Pragmatics is the study of the expression of relative distance
b. Pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning
c. Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning
d. Pragmatics is the study of how more gets communicated than is said

5. This determines the physical and social closeness determines how much needs to be said.
a. Pragmatics is the study of the expression of relative distance
b. Pragmatics is the study of how more gets communicated than is said
c. Pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning
d. Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning

6. The branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used,
including such matters as deixis, the taking of turns in conversation, text organization,
presupposition, and implicature.
a. Pragmatics c. Morphology
b. Semantic d. Phonology

7. In semantics and pragmatics, meaning is the message conveyed by words, sentences, and
symbols in a context.
a. Morphology c. Semantic
b. Phonetics d. Pragmatics
8. It is called the hidden meaning.
a. Invisible meaning c. Pragmatics
b. Phonology d. Semantics

9. Divine asks for a glass of water after talking all day. Why is she asking for a water?
a. she’s thirsty c. She’s annoying
b. She’s attention seeker d. She’s dumb

10. It’s winter and Yeisha ask her brother to close the window. What is she implying?
a. She’s demanding
b. She wants to annoy her brother
c. She feels cold
d. She’s attention seeker

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