英语语言学练习----语用学
一、Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false.
1.The contextual view is often considered as the initial effort to study meaning in a pragmatic sense. ( )
2.Pragmatics is related to and also different from semantics. ( )
3.The notion of context is not important to the pragmatic study of language. ( )
4.All utterances take the form of sentences. ( )
5.Speech act theory was proposed by the British philosopher John Austin in the late 1950s. ( )
6.Grice made a distinction between what he called “constatives” and “performatives”. ()
7.A locutionary act is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon, and phonology. ( )
8.In 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. ( )
9.Directives are attempts by the speaker to get the hearer to do something. ( )
10.The Cooperative principle was proposed by John Searle. ( )
11.There are four maxims under the Cooperative principle. ( )
12.The violations of the maxims make our language indirect. ( )
13.All the utterances take the form of sentences. ( )
14.Austin thought that stating was also a kind of act, and that we can perform with language. ( )
15.According 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. ( )
16.All 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. ( )
17.All the utterances that can be made to serve the same purpose may vary in the syntactic form. ( )。