SEMENTICS AND PRAGMATICS

ASSIGNMENT: 2
GROUP NO: 07
SANA NADEEM 12529
SAIRA DASTGIR 12544
IQRA AROOJ 1206
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. According to Kitamura (2000) In how many ways did individual
portraying a ‘positive face’?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
2. what kind of quality we emphasize with hearer using speech
strategies?
a) Bravery
b) Patience
c) Love
d) Solidarity
3. Which politeness refer a clear gap between speaker and also
hearer in terms of social distance?
a) Negative politeness
b) Positive politeness
c) Face threatening act
d) Positive face
4. The politeness that involved impersonal, nothing is shared and
may include expressions that refer neither to speaker or the
hearer is called?
a) Negative politeness
 b) Positive politeness
c) Formal politeness
d) Face threatening act
5. Those acts and strategies which may harm or threaten the
positive or negative face of one’s speaker are called
a) Negative politeness
b) Positive politeness
c) Formal politeness
d) Face threatening act
6. According to Brown and Levinson, positive and negative face in
human culture exist
a) Universally
b) vary with time
c) vary with situation
d) vary with person
7. FTAs in which restricting the hearer’s personal freedom include
acts predicating a future act of the hearer is called
a) Negative face
b) Positive face
c) Formal face
d) Positive politeness
8. Who proposed the ‘Politeness theory’?
a) Geoffrey Leech
b) Pakzadian
c) Brown & Levinson
d) Culpeper
9. Politeness principles proposed by Leech was based on which of
the following principle?
a) Principles of pragmatics
b) Grice’s cooperative principle
c) Principle of grammar
d) Generative grammar
10. In 1983 Leech delivered how many criterion of politeness?
 a) Three
b) Six
c) Four
d) Eight
11. Maxim given by Leech discuss what kind of relationships of
daily life interactions ?
a) Relation between sense and meaning
b) Relationship between form and meaning
c) Relationship between sense and force
d) Both a and c
12. The maxim which minimise the cost to one side and maximise
the benefit to other is called ?
a) Generosity maxim
b) Tact maxim
c) Approbation maxim
d) Agreement maxim
13. The maxim of minimising approval or praise of other is used in
which maxim?
a) The Tact maxim
b) The Modesty maxim
c) The Approbation maxim
d) The generosity maxim
14. Which of the following two maxim focus on the degree of
good or bad evaluation of others and self?
a) Approbation and modesty
b) Tact and modesty
c) Generosity and approbation
d) Approbation and tact
15. Politeness referred to ________ action.
a) Strong action
b) week action
c) Positive action
 d) None
16. Pragmatics is concerned with ________.
a) meaning
b) function
c) word
d) both a and b
17. Major theory on politeness is Levinson's and _____.
a) David
b) Brown
c) Alex
d) None
18. How many type of politeness strategies;
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 8
19. Indication of smooth communication is_______.
a) Politeness
b) Pragmatics
c) Semantics
d) None
20. Politeness can be_________.
a) Positive
b) Negative
c) Pragmatics politeness
d) All

SHORT QUESTIONs
1: Define agreement maxim.

Ans: In the agreement maxim there is a tendency to maximise

agreement between self and others and minimise the disagreement
between self and other people.
2: dive the Leech’s definition of politeness and politeness principle.
Ans: politeness as a form of behaviour that establishes and
maintains comity and he proposes what he terms politeness
principle as in interaction of the ability of participants in a social
interaction, engaging in an interaction atmosphere of related
harmony.
3:What is positive politeness?
Ans: Positive politeness’ is referred to as protecting the positive
face of other people (Peccei, 1999). according to Kitamura (2000)
an individual portraying a ‘positive face’ in two different ways
which are firstly, similarities indication between people involved
within the conversation and secondly, through appreciation of
speaker’s self-image.
4:What is Deference strategy?
Ans: . Deference strategy is involved in what is called as ‘formal
politeness’ and it is usually impersonal; nothing is shared and may
include expressions that refer neither to speaker or the hearer.
5:What are main super strategies involved when performing face
threatening acts?
Ans: there are five main super strategies involved when performing
FTA which include:

a. Do the FTA on record without redressive actions (least

polite)- bald on record;
b. Do the FTA on record with redressive action addressing
positive face (lesser risk)- positive politeness;
c. Do the FTA on record with redressive action addressing
negative face (greater risk) -negative politeness;
d. Do the FTA off record, indirectly (greater risk than on
record)
e. Don’t do the FTA (greater estimated risk of face loss)