英语专业语用学试卷.docx

英语语言学练习 语用学 一、Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false. contextual view is often considered as the initial effort to study meaning in a pragmatic sense. ( ) is related to and also different from semantics. ( ) notion of context is not important to the pragmatic study of language. ( ) utterances take the form of sentences. ( ) act theory was proposed by the British philosopher John Austin in thleate 1950s. ( ) made a distinction between what he called “constatives” and “performatives”. ( ) locutionary act is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon, and phonology. ( ) their study of language communication, linguists are only interested in how a speaker expresses his intention and pay no attention to how his intention is recognized by the hearer. ( ) are attempts by the speaker to get the hearer to do something. ( ) Cooperative principle was proposed by John Searle. ( ) are four maxims under the Cooperative principle. ( ) violations of the maxims make our language indirect. ( ) the utterances take the form of sentences. ( ) thought that stating was also a kind of act, and that we can perform with language. ( ) to the speech act theory, when we are speaking a language, we are doing something, or in other words performing acts; and the process of linguistic communication consists of a sequence of acts. ( ) the acts that belong to the same category act share the same purpose or the same illocutionary act, and they are the same in their strength or force. ( ) the utterances that can be made to serve the same purpose may vary in the syntactic form. ( ) participants nearly always observe the CP and the maxims of the CP. ( ) sentence is grammatical concept, and the meaning of a sentence is often studied as the abstract intrinsic property of the sentence itself in terms of a predication. ( ) is based on sentence meaning, it is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication or simply