Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 35 views

    S&P Questions

    Uploaded by

    Ummi Nadia
    The document contains questions about lexical semantics, semantic narrowing, types of semantic change, deixis, speech acts, pragmatics skills, anaphora, presupposition, entailment, and linguistic references. It tests understanding of key concepts in semantics and pragmatics through multiple choice questions with a single correct answer marked with a check for each question.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    S&P Questions

    Uploaded by

    Ummi Nadia
    35 views3 pages
    The document contains questions about lexical semantics, semantic narrowing, types of semantic change, deixis, speech acts, pragmatics skills, anaphora, presupposition, entailment, and linguistic references. It tests understanding of key concepts in semantics and pragmatics through multiple choice questions with a single correct answer marked with a check for each question.

    Original Description:

    Semantics

    Original Title

    S&P questions

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document contains questions about lexical semantics, semantic narrowing, types of semantic change, deixis, speech acts, pragmatics skills, anaphora, presupposition, entailment, and linguistic references. It tests understanding of key concepts in semantics and pragmatics through multiple choice questions with a single correct answer marked with a check for each question.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    35 views3 pages

    S&P Questions

    Uploaded by

    Ummi Nadia
    The document contains questions about lexical semantics, semantic narrowing, types of semantic change, deixis, speech acts, pragmatics skills, anaphora, presupposition, entailment, and linguistic references. It tests understanding of key concepts in semantics and pragmatics through multiple choice questions with a single correct answer marked with a check for each question.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 3

    *QUESTIONS*

    *CONCEPT*

    *1. Which words are focused in lexical semantics?*

    A. lion, jasmine, selfish, persuade. ✅


    B. the, of, than.

    *2. What is semantic narrowing?*

    ✅
    A. A type of semantic change by which the meaning of a word becomes less general or
    inclusive than its earlier meaning.

    B. The loss or reduction of meaning in a word as a result of semantic change.

    *3. What are the common types of semantic change?*

    I. Broadening
    II. Pejoration
    III. Polysemy

    ✅
    A. I
    B. I & II
    C. II & III

    *4. Semantics is the study of how language is used to create meaning - any observation or
    judgement related to the meaning of a word, and all the subtle differences in meaning
    between words, comes under semantics.*

    A. True ✅
    B. False

    *5. Hyponym refers to a word with a more specific meaning, e.g., laptop, scarlet, armchair.*

    A. True ✅
    B. False

    *6. What does Deixis mean?*

    ✅
    A. Deixis is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person
    in context.

    B. Deixis is based on the information that is right and combined with experiences.

    *7. Which is the type of speech acts?*


    A. Directive Acts ✅
    B. Locutionary Acts

    *8. How to help students with weak pragmatics skills?*

    A. Explicitly teach social language "rules". ✅


    B. Give them video game.

    *9. Presuppose factive uses the truth as an assumption.*

    A. True ✅
    B. False

    *10. What is the main use of anaphora?*

    A. Make a forward reference in a text, is identified with a pronoun.

    B. Repetition at the start of the sentence and reinforce meaning. ✅


    ------------------

    *APPLICATIONS*

    *1. "I am so hungy, I could eat a horse."*

    *By applying semantics, we observe the literal meaning of the sentence above and assume
    that the person
    wants to eat a horse.*

    A. True ✅
    B. False

    *2. "If Jasmine cannot go to the morning appointment, she will go to the afternoon one. (one
    = appointment)."*

    *This is an example of what type of linguistic reference?*

    ✅
    A. Deixis
    B. Anaphora

    *3. "A triangle has four sides" is an example of a _______________ sentence.*

    ✅
    A. Analytic
    B. Contradictory

    *4. "Borrower" is an example of "gradable antonyms."*


    ✅
    A. True
    B. False

    *5. Decide which words are function words in the following sentence:*

    *The children will be swimming in the ocean at five o'clock.*

    A. The, will be, in, the, at. ✅


    B. Children, swimming, ocean, five, o'clock.

    *6. "Your brother wants to see you. Your brother doesn't want to see you." --> YOU HAVE A
    BROTHER.*

    ✅
    A. Entailment
    B. Presupposition

    *7. "Stay safe. Stay well. Stay happy."*

    A. Anaphora ✅
    B. Cataphora

    *8. Bruce has a very advanced sense of what is socially appropriate. He always knows what
    to say in every social context. He has which kind of linguistic competence?*

    A. Pragmatic ✅
    B. Syntactic

    *9. Select the example which belongs to Presuppose Non-Factive:*

    A. Where did she go?

    B. He pretends to be working. ✅
    *10. What are examples of spatial deixis?*

    A. Now, then, tonight, last week, yesterday.

    B. Here, there, over here, over there. ✅

    You might also like