NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA

UNIVERSITY VILLAGE, PLOT 91, CASDASTRAL ZONE, NNAMDI AZIKIWE EXPRESS WAY, JABI, ABUJA.
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2021 EXAMINATION

COURSE CODE: ENG 432

COURSE TITLE: PRAGMATICS

TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS

INSTRUCTION: Answer Any 4 Questions

1. Write short notes on the following:

a) Face saving tact (4½ marks)

b) Discourse value (4 marks)

c) Entailment (4 marks)

d) Speech event (5 marks) (17½/45 minutes)

2. (a) Distinguish between the concept of utterance meaning and sentence meaning in the field of pragmatics. (4½ marks)

(b) Comment on Charles Morris (1938) contributions to the development of pragmatics. (5 marks)

(c) Compare linguistic context and socio-cultural context. (8 marks) (17½/45 minutes)

3. (a) Briefly explain tact as a pragmatics concept. (4½ marks)

(b) With two examples, discuss the notion of intention in the field of pragmatics in relation to reference. (6 marks)

(c) (c) Explain the notion of semantic inference. (7 marks) (17½/45 minutes)

4(a) Briefly explain speech acts as a pragmatics notion. (3½ marks)

(b) List and briefly comment on Searle’s (1976) types of speech acts. (10 marks)

(c) Distinguish between Austin’s performatives and constantives. (4 marks) (17½)

5a) Compare and contrast pragmatics and discourse analysis. (4 marks)

b) Briefly explain the term conversational analysis. (3½ marks)

c) Explain the steps that you will need to follow to successfully carry a research on the topic:

Pragmatics features of Nigeria senatorial campaign advertisements of 2019 elections. (10 marks) (17½/45 minutes)