Pragmatics Midterm Crossword!

We love semantics because it is dealing with language ______.
We also love Pragmatics because it is dealing with language ______.
______ gives meaning in context.
Which entailment test is used in this sentence? “Little Annie does not know that Unicorns do not exist, but Unicorns do exist.”
Is the following entailment true or false: (a) Pragmatics is a great class! (b) Pragmatics is a class.
Entailment is a relation between a sentence x and a sentence y where the ____ of one sentence follows from the other(s).
In an entailment, a entails b if the information that b conveys is ____ in the information a conveys.
Which entailment test is used in this sentence? “Professor Syrett bought a goldfish. In fact, she already has one.”
Responding as ________ and as consistent as possible at a certain point in a conversation.
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.”
Utterances become an _______ in a conversation, happening at a particular time and place.
What is the first name of the linguist who created the four Maxims of Conversational Implicature?
Which Grice’s maxim is violated in this conversation? Liam: How many farms do Mr. Smith own in New Jersey? Paul: He owns over twenty farms.
Grice’s Maxim of Manner states “Be brief”, which means avoid unnecessary _____.
In this conversation, Diana asks Harry “Does your brother like fruits?” Harry answers “He likes Apples.” By uttering this he is implying that his brother _____ likes apples.
What kind of implicature is in this sentence? “It is possible that Kim will win the lottery this year.”
What is the name of this failure to fulfill a maxim in this hyperbole? “His garlic breath could knock over an elephant”
Horn states that “A ‘linguistic scale’ consists of a set of alternatives arranged in order of semantic strength or ______”
Informativeness In implicature, a implies b if b can be inferred from a, but is not a necessary part of the truth ______ of a.
Which basic characteristic of implicature is shown in this sentence “Julia’s parents can get her a cat or a dog for her birthday.”
Which basic characteristic of implicature is shown in this sentence “Sara has owned two pet turtles ever since she was eight years old.”
The Sentence: Susan stopped doing pragmatics homework. Is an example of what projection?
“Susan stopped doing pragmatics homework.” presupposes that Susan ________.
Plugs usually use verbs of sayings. Name a verb that is commonly used? (Hint it ends in “ll”)
In the sentence: “If Professor Syrett likes our midterm project, then we might get an A!” Does the presupposition project, true or false?
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”
A presupposition is what is taken by the speaker to be ______ knowledge.
In Semantics, presupposition is a proposition that P presupposes that Q iff Q must be true in order that P have a ______ at all. When any presupposition is false, the assertion lacks a truth value.
In this sentence, “Sam regrets breaking up with Lola six years ago.” What is the presupposition trigger here?
In this sentence, “Sam regrets breaking up with Lola six years ago.” What is the name of this trigger/what kind of trigger is this?
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].
What is the name of this sentence in the P family? “If Esther was surprised that Teresa showed her a horror movie, then she would have covered her eyes during the movie.” Suppose the presupposition assertion is [Esther was surprised that Teresa showed her a horror movie].
What is the name of this sentence in the P family? “The sports star of New Jersey does have children.” Suppose the presupposition assertion is [The sports star of New Jersey does not have children].
In this sentence, “If Christina realizes Kathy is home alone, then she would call a babysitter to stay home.” What is the trigger here?
[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?
Local Accommodations propose a ______ situation
[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).
Accomodations dynamically ______ the context
The two kinds of rules that make up conversation (and baseball) are constitutive and ______.
Lagendoen and Savin proposed the _______ hypothesis of accommodation.
We have to settle on an accommodation that yields a ______ discourse