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ÖABT2020 – Dilbilim kavrama testi

PART 7 – Pragmatics & Discourse analysis

1. What is the term used to refer to any 4. When a person says something in a
aspects of an occasion in which a conversation, the meaning of that
speech act takes place, including the sentence has to do with the words, etc.,
social setting and the status of both the but the meaning only exists within the
speaker and the person who is context of what else is in the person’s
addressed? head that provides meaning.

A) Deixis Which of the following terms is implied

B) Reference above?
C) Context
D) Inference A) Presupposition
E) Presupposition B) Speech act
C) Conversational maxims
D) Politeness
E) Cohesion

2. Which of the following is true of 5. In grammar and discourse, a(n) ----- is an

“deixis”? expression (i.e., word, phrase, clause, etc.)
that gives its meaning to a preform (i.e.,
A) It is the background belief relating to pronoun, pro-verb, pro-adverb, etc.), e.g.,
an utterance. The underlined part in the sentence, “The
B) It is the additional information used student of linguistics is proud of what he
only by the listeners. has done so far.”
C) A deictic expression always obtains its
reference inside the linguistic context. Choose the alternative which best
D) It is a word or phrase that points to the completes the sentence.
time, place, or situation.
E) It is the relationship between two A) inference
sentences in a context. B) reference
C) antecedent
D) deixis
E) speech-act

3. John:
- I am hungry.
Mark: 6. There are many utterances with the
- You need to go there to eat. purpose to effect the hearer in some way
or other, some convey information directly,
Which of the following is true of the to do something in a linguistic encounter.
underlined words in the dialogue?
Which of the following terms best
A) They point outside the linguistic explains the underlined part of the
context. above expression?
B) They are co-referential.
C) They all bear presupposition in the A) Deictic expression
utterance. B) Co-operative principle
D) They involve a deictic relationship C) Direct speech act
which is spatial. D) Perlocutionary act
E) The meaning is evident in the E) Face-saving act
linguistic context.
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PART 7 – Pragmatics & Discourse analysis

7. Which of the following is a “commissive 10. John:

speech act”? - Did you complete the paper works?
Mary:
A) Frank is a doctor in this hospital. - [She has not started it yet] I’m on the
B) Will you pay for my tuition in the next halfway through right now.
semester?
C) I’m thrilled that you may leave Which of the following is true
studying linguistics. considering the dialogue above?
D) I will take you to Disneyland for your
birthday. A) Since Mary is lying, the maxim of
E) We the jury find the defendant to be quality is violated.
guilty. B) Mary’s response is irrelevant in the
context and she violates relation.
C) Mary provides the context with extra
information and violates quantity.
D) Mary’s response is ambiguous in the
sense of the utterance and thus
8. A(n) ----- serves a variety of goals beyond involves a manner violation.
communication: maintaining good social E) John’s question is not sufficient for
relations, misleading without lying, style, Mary and he violates the maxim of
verbal efficiency and mentioning an idea quality.
that is not present in the actual meaning of
the expression.

Choose the option that completes the

sentence.

A) implicature 11. A(n) ----- towards negative face will tend to

B) deixis show deference, emphasize the
C) reference importance of the other’s time or concerns,
D) presupposition and even include an apology for the
E) entailment imposition or interruption.

Choose the option that best completes

the sentence.

A) hedge
B) face-threatening act
9. Sally: C) implicature
- What did you buy in the bookshop? D) face-saving act
Mate: E) violation
- I bought the book by Einstein. He is a
scientist who failed to talk until the age of
four, the result of language disability. He
also failed to enter the college and lost
three teaching positions in two years.

Which of the following maxims is

violated in the above dialogue? 12. What is the term used to describe the
grammatical means by which sentences
A) Only quality and paragraphs are linked and
B) Only quantity relationships between them
C) Only relevance established?
D) Quality and manner
E) Relevance and manner A) Cohesion
B) Coherence
C) Situationality
D) Intertextuality
E) Acceptability
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13. Michelle: 16. What is the term used to refer to a type

- Have you ever heard about the term of reference in which a deictic
diglossia? expression gets its meaning from the
Daniel: entity which is available in the physical
- Sure I have. I have also heard about context of the utterance?
accent which consists of six letters. As you
know, I have received a letter from one of A) Endophora
my friends in Texas, which is famous with B) Anaphora
the western movies. C) Cataphora
D) Exophora
Which of the following statements can E) Antecedent
be made about the dialogue above?

A) Although the text violates coherence,

it is cohesive.
B) The text violates both the cohesion
and coherence. 17. Anthony:
C) Although the dialogue violates - Where have you been?
cohesion, it is coherent. Donald:
D) The text is both cohesive and - In my clothes.
coherent.
E) Coherence makes the text incohesive. Which of the following co-operative
principles is violated in the above
dialogue?

14. [1] There is a boy climbing that tree. A) Only quantity

[2] The lad is going to fall if he does not B) Only quality
take care. C) Only manner
D) Quantity and relevance
The underlined phrases in the sentences E) Relation and manner
[1-2] above provide a cohesive structure
when it comes to the interpretation of the
sentence.

Which of the following is the cohesive

device employed in the sentences [1-
2]?

A) Reference
B) Substitution
C) Conjunction
D) Ellipsis
E) Lexical cohesion

15. Which of the following is not among the

topics that studies on the discourse
analysis focus on?

A) Hedges actualized by the participants

in an interaction
B) How participants take the turns of the
other participants
C) The grammatical parts of the
sentences and paragraphs in forming
a cohesive text
D) The intonation pattern employed by
speakers in a social encounter
E) Perception of language with respect to
its cultural aspects
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1 C 6 D 11 D 16 D
2 D 7 D 12 A 17 A
3 A 8 A 13 A
4 A 9 B 14 E
5 C 10 A 15 E