Questions for Module Control 1

Tasks and Questions

References

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1. Give the definition to “deixis”. Dwell on its relation to indexicality and anaphora.

2. What does Ch. J. Fillmore mean by the “major grammaticalized types” of deixis?

3. Dwell on place deixis. Does English show a two-way or a three-way referential distinction in its deictic system? Prove your answer.

4. How can we distinguish deictic expression from anaphoric one?

5. Characterize exophoric and endophoric reference. Give examples.

6. What is deictic center? Can it be transferred?

7. Distinguish between usages of deixis. Give examples.

1. Define the term “sign”. What is the essence of a hot debate about the nature of signs?

2. Analyze theories of signs by F. de Saussure and Ch. S. Peirce. What advantages and disadvantages of each theory can you name?

3. What is the essence of Ch. S. Peirce’s triadic mental or mind-like process?

4. What does Ch. S. Peirce mean by the “ground” of a sign?

5. Why is indexicality sometimes seen as an alternative way to understanding reference?

6. What are the three central trichotomies of sign elaborated by Ch. S. Peirce? Dwell on the most famous of them.

7. Explain the difference between indexical and referential meaning. Give examples.

8. Define non-referential indexicality. Dwell on the levels of indexical meaning.

9. Characterize linguistic variants that act to index sex and gender. Give examples.

10. What is affective meaning? What examples of affective forms can you give?

11. Define T-V distinction. Dwell on its history and usage.

12. Give the definition to honorifics. Characterize modern English and Japanese honorifics. Compare them with Ukrainian ones.

13. Dyirbal is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northeast Queensland by about 5 speakers of the Dyirbal tribe. Why has it become so well-known among linguists?

14. What does M. Silverstein mean by “wine talk”?

15. Why did J. L. Austin find great difficulty in drawing a completely clear distinction between “performatives” and “constantives”?

16. Define the term “performative”. Dwell on its origin and categories.

17. What does J. L. Austin mean when says that a sentence is “unhappy”?

18. What is the essence of the “hereby” test? How does it work?

19. How can we distinguish performatives from other utterances?

20. Are performatives truth-evaluable? Why? Prove your answer.

21. What is the essence of E. Sedgwick’s dichotomy of performatives? Do you agree with her?

22. What does the success of a conversation depend on?

23. What does the cooperative principle consist in? Does it require from speaker and hearer further cooperation towards a common goal beyond that of understanding and being understood?

24. What are conversational maxims? Dwell on their types.

25. Give the definition to conversational implicature. What is it grounded on?

26. What is the essence of a hot debate about the precise characterization of communicative intentions?

27. Explain the difference between conversational and conventional implicatures. Give examples.

28. What is the essence of H. P. Grice’s theory of meaning?

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