MCQ Bank
Much of the everyday human interaction is characterized by the _________rather than the primarily transactional use of language.
- A) None of the given options
- B) secondary interpersonal
- C) primary interpersonal
- D) major impersonal
Speech acts are__________ of communication.
- A) acts
- B) repose
- C) sloth
- D) stoppage
Spatial deixis are used to indicate the relative __________ of people and things.
- A) state
- B) location
- C) domain
- D) time
It is very _________ for the speaker to update the deictic center in more extended discourse.
- A) exceptional
- B) intrinsic
- C) endemic
- D) common
The lexical items that __________context in the way are called ‘deictics’.
- A) implode
- B) démodé
- C) encode
- D) decode
I have locked the door so someone ____________ NOT get in.
- A) have
- B) does
- C) had
- D) did
Which among the following does indicate literal meaning?
- A) illocutionary act
- B) locutionary act
- C) perlocutionary act
- D) None of the given options
Entailment refers to a relation between a pair of sentences such that the truth of the second sentence necessarily _________from the truth of the first.
- A) precedes
- B) shuns
- C) follows
- D) evades
An entailment is something that logically follows from what is__________ in the utterance.
- A) recant
- B) renege
- C) asserted
- D) abjure
According to Brown and Yule (1983), above speech acts, there are ____________main functions of talk.
- A) two
- B) four
- C) eight
- D) six
A presupposition is something the speaker assumes to be the case_________ to making an utterance.
- A) ensue
- B) sequent
- C) prior
- D) proximate
The term deixis is also known as the ____________ of language’.
- A) complexity
- B) multiplicity
- C) perplexity
- D) indexicality
Which among the following is the assumption of the existence of the entities named by the speaker?
- A) non factive presupposition
- B) All of the given options
- C) existential presupposition
- D) factive presupposition
Discourse Deixis is also called __________ deixis.
- A) text
- B) treatise
- C) substance
- D) material
Which among the following assumption does say that face is typically at risk when the other is involved with it?
- A) pre-sequences
- B) pre-serenity
- C) pre-request
- D) pre-repose
Showing awareness to person’s face when the other seems socially distant is known as _________.
- A) manner
- B) politeness
- C) deference
- D) interaction
When there is social distance, politeness is ___________ and there is more indirectness.
- A) enacted
- B) encoded
- C) decoded
- D) descanted
Positive face reflects the desire to have ________approved of by others.
- A) ancillary self-image
- B) None of the given options
- C) other’s self-image
- D) one’s self-image
Linguists are of the view that if the strategies presented do not appear _________ contextualized it may be difficult to know how to use them.
- A) adverse
- B) adversative
- C) appropriately
- D) polite
Negative Face Threating Act(s) can include ____________ of the listener to perform a certain action.
- A) advices
- B) requests
- C) warnings
- D) All of the given options