Questions on Deixis in Pragmatics
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following is an example of person deixis?
"Here"
"Tomorrow"
"You"
"That"
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Temporal deixis is concerned with:
Identifying a person
Referring to spatial locations
Indicating time
Expressing attitudes
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of these sentences contains a spatial deictic expression?
"I will see you tomorrow."
"The book is over there."
"She is feeling happy today."
"That was a good movie."
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the sentence, "I’ll call you later," the word "later" is an example of:
Person deixis
Temporal deixis
Spatial deixis
Discourse deixis
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The term "deictic center" in pragmatics refers to:
The speaker's location in space and time
The listener's understanding of deixis
The cultural context of a conversation
The grammatical structure of deictic expressions
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the sentence, "Can you bring me that book over there?" what does "that" indicate?
A proximal deictic term
A distal deictic term
A temporal reference
A personal reference
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of these pairs illustrates a shift in temporal deixis?
"This" and "that"
"Today" and "tomorrow"
"I" and "we"
"Here" and "there"
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