專八語言學選擇練習 6

1. Linguists found that it would be impossible to give an adequate description of meaning if ________ of language use was left unconsidered.

A. brevity

B. context

C. accuracy

D. none of the above

2. If a sentence is regarded as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes ________.

A. a sentence

B. an act

C. a unit

D. an utterance

3. ________ act theory is an important theory in the pragmatic study of language.

A. Speaking

B. Speech

C. Sound

D. Spoken

4. One of the contributions Searle has made is his classification of ________ acts.

A. locutionary

B. illocutionary

C. perlocutionary

D. speech

5. Of the three speech act, linguistics are most interested in the ________.

A. locutionary act

B. perlocutionary act

C. illocutionary act

D. none of the above

6. Most of the violation of the maxims of the CP give rise to ________.

A. utterance meaning

B. speech act theory

C. conversational implicatures

D. all of the above

7. The significance of Grice’s CP lies in that it explains how it is possible for the speaker to convey ________ is literally said.

A. more than

B. less than

C. the same as

D. none of the above

答案(反白可見)：B D A B C C A