Go to Appendix B Go to Appendix C Appendix A Listening Scripts Conversation 1 — Service Encounter – Housing Office (N): Listen to a conversation in a cashier’s office. Conversation 2 — Office Hour — New Job (N): Listen to part of a conversation between a professor and a student. Conversation 3 — Office Hour -Grad School Application (N): Listen to a conversation between a professor and a student. They are in the professor’s office, talking about the student’s application to graduate school. Conversation 4 — Student Conversation — Busy Weekend (N): Listen to a conversation between two students. Conversation 5 — Service Encounter – Department Office (N): Listen to a conversation in a university office. Conversation 6 — Office Hour — Paper Topic (N): Listen to a conversation between a student and his professor.
Thank you for participating in my Pragmatic Comprehension study. Please do not write in your booklet. Please make sure you circle your answers in the correct spot on your answer sheet. Below is a sample question showing how to mark your answers on the answer sheet. Sample: 1. On what continent is Canada? The correct answer is “a,” so on your answer sheet, circle the letter “a” for question 1. Your answer sheet should look like this: 1. b c d (Note: * indicates correct answer.) CONVERSATION 1 1. What problem did the man have with his housing bill? [LC] 2. According to the computer, how much money should the man pay? [LC] 3. What information did the woman give the man about his account? [LC] 4. What will the man likely do after he leaves? [LC] 5. Consider the whole dialogue. What does the woman think? [PC, ImplicatureGeneral] 6. The man says, “Hi. I need to pay uh summer housing – my dormitory room.” [PC, Speech Act-Request] 7. The man says, “Oh OK that’s not right. I got to get that fixed.” [PC, Speech Act-Request] 8. The woman says, “But you’re going to need to check with them and make sure that they remove the rest of that.” [PC, Speech Act-Suggestion] 9. Read this exchange between the man and the woman: STOP CONVERSATION 2 10. What are the student and professor mainly discussing? [LC] 11. Where does the student work now? [LC] 12. What does the new job offer? [LC] 13. What will the student likely do in the near future? [LC] 14. Consider the whole conversation. How does the student feel? [PC, ImplicatureGeneral] 15. The student says, “Oh, bookstore’s working out fine. I just, I–I don’t know–this pays almost double what the bookstore does.” STOP CONVERSATION 3 16. Why did the student visit the professor’s office? [LC] 17. What are the professor and the student mainly talking about? [LC] 18. What will the student likely do after he leaves the professor’s office? [LC] 19. The student says, “um, if you wouldn’t mind, I’d appreciate it if you could, write a um, letter of recommendation for me.” 20. The professor says, “Actually, the other thing I was gonna recommend too is to uh, give me uh, if your want me to look at it sometime, your uh, your cover letter, or your statement.” 21. The professor says, “if you haven’t done it yet, I’d really recommend you, uh, we do have a career office on campus that has some software, so if you’ve never done a resume before it’s a good place to start.” STOP CONVERSATION 4 22. What are the students mainly talking about? [LC] 23. The man asks if the woman is going to[LC] 24. What will the woman do over the weekend? [LC] 25. What do we know about their relationship from the dialog? [LC] 26. Consider the whole conversation. What does the woman think? [PC, ImplicatureGeneral] 27. The woman says, “I would but I’ve got to, uh, I have this huge paper due Monday–got to get going on it.” 28. After the woman describes her paper topic, the man says, “OK, OK.” STOP CONVERSATION 5 29. What problem did the student have? [LC] 30. Who is the woman’s professor? [LC] 31. What is the professor’s telephone extension? [LC] 32. What will the student likely do next? [LC] 33. Consider the whole dialogue. How does the student feel? [PC, ImplicatureGeneral] 34. Consider the whole dialogue. What does the office worker think? [PC, ImplicatureGeneral] 35. Read the following exchange: 36. The student says, “Yeah, I guess that would be helpful.” 37. The office worker says, “I might be able to track him down for you. Now that I think of it, I don’t think he is teaching class right now.” 38. The office worker says, “Yeah. So I would try to give him a call first. Tell him that you need to uh — get in touch with him.”
CONVERSATION 6 39. What is the main problem that Scott is having? [LC] 40. What is the topic of Scott’s paper? [LC] 41. During World War I, the United States [LC] 42. What President decided to enter World War I? [LC] 43. What information does Scott need to have in his paper? [LC] 44. Consider the whole dialogue. How does Scott feel? [PC, ImplicatureGeneral] 45. Consider the whole dialogue. What does the professor think? [PC, ImplicatureGeneral] 46. Scott says, “OK I just pretty much have a question on like the term paper and stuff” 47. Read the following exchange: 48. The professor says, “But that’s part of it and you need to look at, you know, whatwhat were President Wilson’s ideas about the war and .”
Appendix C Definitions of Pragmatic Constructs Speech Acts (SA) Speech Act Subtypes Conversational Implicature (CI) Implicature Subtypes |