B's utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maxim of__________.A: Who was that you were with last night?B: Did you know that you were wearing odd socks?

A. quality
B. quantity
C. relation
D. manner

The sentence “I'll return you the money tomorrow.”is a _____________.

A. representative
B. directive
C. declaration
D. commissive

Of the three speech acts , linguistists are most interested in the _________.

A. locutionary act
B. perlocutionary act
C. illocutionary act
D. none of the above.

The u________meaning is the result of the combination of the sentence meaning and the context.

I_______ acts are acts performed in saying something, following the formula In saying X, I was doing Y.

A ___________ act is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax , lexicon , and phonology.

Most of the violations of the four maxims give rise to c___________ implicature.

The sentence “Do you have to stand in front of the TV”is an indirect speech act expressing the meaning of “move out of the way”.

A. 对
B. 错

The same sentence can be uttered on differentoccasions to perform different illocutionaryacts.

A. 对
B. 错

Whenever there is a direct relationship between a structure and a function, we have an indirect speech act.

A. 对
B. 错