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

Travellers may find that the British put more emphasis on ________ politeness than other cultures do.

• A) negative
• B) positive
• C) afflictive
• D) agentive

Politeness is not the same as _________, which is a polite form expressing distance from and respect for people of a higher status.

• A) preference
• B) deference
• C) inference
• D) coherence

There are __________ situational context factors that influence the way that we make a request.

• A) five
• B) seven
• C) two
• D) nine

The most direct approach, using imperative forms is known as _________.

• A) lull on record
• B) hush on record
• C) bald on record
• D) off on record