Pragmatics Midterm Crossword!

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