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- 1. Multiple Choice
“Don’t make your contribution more informative than is required”
What maxim does this above rule belong to?
Maxim of quality
Maxim of quantity
Maxim of relation
D. Maxim of manner
- 2. Multiple Choice
“Don’t say what you believe to be false”
What maxim does this above rule belong to?
A. Maxim of quality
B. Maxim of quantity
C. Maxim of relation
D. Maxim of manner
- 3. Multiple Choice
“John walked into a house yesterday and saw a tortoise”
What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?
A.Scalar implicature
B. Generalized conversational implicature
C. Conventional implicature
D. Particularized conversational implicature
- 4. Multiple Choice
“He sometimes writes to me”
What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?
A.Scalar implicature
B. Generalized conversational implicature
C. Conventional implicature
D. Particularized conversational implicature
- 5. Multiple Choice
“Will Sally be at the meeting this afternoon? – Her car broke down”
What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?
A.Scalar implicature
B. Generalized conversational implicature
C. Conventional implicature
D. Particularized conversational implicature
- 6. Multiple Choice
“Even Bill likes Mary”
What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?
A.Scalar implicature
B. Generalized conversational implicature
C. Conventional implicature
D. Particularized conversational implicature
- 7. Multiple Choice
“A: Where is my box of chocolates?
B: The children were in your room this morning.”
Which maxim does the answer of B violate?
A. Maxim of quality
B. Maxim of quantity
C. Maxim of relation
D. Maxim of manner
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which maxim does the answer violate?
“A: I hear you went to the opera last night; how was the lead singer?
B: The singer produced a series of sounds corresponding closely to the score of an aria from ‘Rigoletto’”
A. Maxim of quality
B. Maxim of quantity
C. Maxim of relation
D. Maxim of manner
- 9. Multiple Choice
“Not to change the subject” is the hedge of
Quality
Quantity
Relation
Manner
- 10. Multiple Choice
“As you probably know” is the hedge of
Quality
Quantity
Relation
Manner
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