Across
- 3. The name given to the propositions that form a propositional function is _____.
- 6. Suppositions differ from assertions in that they only aim to add content to the context set __________.
- 8. Local Accommodations propose a ______ situation.
- 12. Lagendoen and Savin proposed the _______ hypothesis of accommodation.
- 13. [1] If [2] Professor Syrett is sad, then [3] she will hug her Pragmatics Textbook.If we place the presupposition “Professor Syrett has a Pragmatics Textbook” in [1] what kind of accommodation will that be called?
- 14. We settle on accommodations that will yield a ______ discourse.
- 16. In an entailment, a entails b if the information that b conveys is ____ in the information a conveys.
- 17. Suggests an “AND” relationship between propositional variables.
- 18. Verbs such as: glad, realize, know… describe which kind of presupposition?
- 21. [1] If [2] Sue is sad, then [3] she will do Pragmatics homework! Where would you place the presupposition “Sue has Pragmatics homework” to show that the speaker assumes the common ground (we are aware of the situation).
- 23. In this sentence, “Catherine stopped the car before it hit the stop sign.” What kind of trigger is “stopped?”
- 24. An assumption associated with wh-questions is known as a _____________.
- 28. Utterances become an _______ in a conversation, happening at a particular time and place.
- 29. The man who proposed scalar implicatures is named Laurence “Larry” ____.
- 31. What is the name of this failure to fulfill a maxim in this conversation? Allen: Where does Sarah live? Emily: She lives somewhere in the south of California.
- 32. Plugs usually use verbs of sayings. Name a verb that is commonly used? (Hint it ends in “ll”)
- 33. Grice’s Maxim of Manner states “Be brief”, which means avoid unnecessary _____.
- 36. People who use common ground have ______ knowledge.
- 37. What is the name of this sentence in the P family? “Has Sean realized that his dog is missing?” Suppose the presupposition assertion is [Sean realized that his dog is missing].
- 38. Another name for a bridging reference is ____________.
- 39. We love semantics because it is dealing with language ______ .
- 41. Responding as ________ and as consistent as possible at a certain point in a conversation.
Down
- 1. Grice states that “Our conversations do not consist of a succession of disconnected remarks, and would not be rational if they did. They are characteristically, to some degree at least, __________; and each partisans recognizes in them, to some extent, a common purpose or set of purposes, or at least a mutually accepted direction.”
- 2. Which basic characteristic of implicature is shown in this sentence “Xavier used to play soccer in high school.”
- 4. Assertions are _______ made in context.
- 5. ______ gives meaning in context.
- 7. Which Grice’s maxim is violated in Kate’s utterance? Kate: I have a mermaid in my bathtub.
- 9. A presupposition is what is taken by the speaker to be ______ knowledge.
- 10. Stalnaker states “use pragmatic theory — theory of conversational contexts —- to take some of the weight off semantic and syntactic theory...defend simper semantic and _______ analyses and give more natural explanations of many linguistic phenomena”.
- 11. Suggests an “OR” relationship between propositional variables.
- 15. We settle on accommodations that will yield a ______ discourse.
- 19. Is this example of common ground true or false? “Hey I’m in Professor Syrett’s class!(Points at Linguistic Building)”
- 20. Which entailment test is used in this sentence? “Little Annie does not know that Unicorns do not exist, but Unicorns do exist.”
- 22. There are two kinds of filters we’ve talked about: if/then and _____/or.
- 23. In the sentence: “If Professor Syrett likes our midterm project, then we might get an A!” Does the presupposition project, true or false?
- 25. The essential effect of an assertion is to _____ the context set
- 26. We also love Pragmatics because it is dealing with language ______.
- 27. This list: Existential, Factive, Non-factive, Lexical, Structural, Counterfactual, are _______________.
- 30. True or false: if a speaker asserts a weaker item on a lexical scale, they implicate the stronger version.
- 34. Are assumptions about common ground made in social encounters and as well not restricted to language (True or False)?
- 35. The two kinds of rules that make up conversation (and baseball) are constitutive and ______.
- 40. What term is used to refer to plugs that allow for presuppositions to be partially projected?