Pragmatics Midterm Crossword!

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  1. 2. In this sentence, “Catherine stopped the car before it hit the stop sign.” What kind of trigger is “stopped?”
  2. 4. In the sentence: “If Professor Syrett likes our midterm project, then we might get an A!” Does the presupposition project, true or false?
  3. 7. In an entailment, a entails b if the information that b conveys is ____ in the information a conveys.
  4. 9. Are assumptions about common ground made in social encounters and as well not restricted to language (True or False)?
  5. 11. Suggests an “OR” relationship between propositional variables.
  6. 12. The man who proposed scalar implicatures is named Laurence “Larry” ____.
  7. 13. Grice’s Maxim of Manner states “Be brief”, which means avoid unnecessary _____.
  8. 15. [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).
  9. 16. ______ gives meaning in context.
  10. 18. Utterances become an _______ in a conversation, happening at a particular time and place.
  11. 20. Which basic characteristic of implicature is shown in this sentence “Xavier used to play soccer in high school.”
  12. 22. True or false: if a speaker asserts a weaker item on a lexical scale, they implicate the stronger version.
  13. 23. What term is used to refer to plugs that allow for presuppositions to be partially projected?
  14. 24. We love semantics because it is dealing with language ______ .
  15. 25. Which Grice’s maxim is violated in Kate’s utterance? Kate: I have a mermaid in my bathtub.
  16. 27. This list: Existential, Factive, Non-factive, Lexical, Structural, Counterfactual, are _______________.
  17. 28. There are two kinds of filters we’ve talked about: if/then and _____/or.
  18. 30. 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.”
  19. 31. We also love Pragmatics because it is dealing with language ______.
  20. 32. Lagendoen and Savin proposed the _______ hypothesis of accommodation.
  21. 33. Which entailment test is used in this sentence? “Little Annie does not know that Unicorns do not exist, but Unicorns do exist.”
  22. 36. Local Accommodations propose a ______ situation.
  23. 39. The name given to the propositions that form a propositional function is _____.
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  1. 1. Suggests an “AND” relationship between propositional variables.
  2. 3. Assertions are _______ made in context.
  3. 4. Is this example of common ground true or false? “Hey I’m in Professor Syrett’s class!(Points at Linguistic Building)”
  4. 5. An assumption associated with wh-questions is known as a _____________.
  5. 6. The two kinds of rules that make up conversation (and baseball) are constitutive and ______.
  6. 8. Verbs such as: glad, realize, know… describe which kind of presupposition?
  7. 9. Suppositions differ from assertions in that they only aim to add content to the context set __________.
  8. 10. A presupposition is what is taken by the speaker to be ______ knowledge.
  9. 14. 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].
  10. 17. 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.
  11. 19. 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”.
  12. 21. Another name for a bridging reference is ____________.
  13. 26. People who use common ground have ______ knowledge.
  14. 29. The essential effect of an assertion is to _____ the context set
  15. 34. Plugs usually use verbs of sayings. Name a verb that is commonly used? (Hint it ends in “ll”)
  16. 35. [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?
  17. 37. We settle on accommodations that will yield a ______ discourse.
  18. 38. Responding as ________ and as consistent as possible at a certain point in a conversation.