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1. Mark the following statement true or false
Buy has an opposite meaning from sell.
A. True
B. False
2. Which of the following has the closest meaning to “Smiths means well”?
A. Smith is the sign of well
B. Smith is well-intentioned.
3. Mark the following statement true or false
The pragmatic meaning of “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse” is “I’m very hungry.”
A. False
B. True
4. Which of the following is true about semantics?
A. Semantics is the study of words and their meanings within language placed within context.
B. Semantics looks at the literal meanings of words.
C. Semantics looks the intended meaning of words.
5. Which of the following is NOT an aspect of SEMANTICS?
A. Sentence meaning
B. Pragmatic meaning
C. Word meaning
D. Utterance meaning
6. In asking ‘What did John mean when he said he’d be back later?’ is the questioner mostly usually asking:
A. What JOHN meant in saying it.
B. What the SENTENCE I’ll be back later means
7. Can two people hold an ordinary conversation without knowing the meanings of the words they are using?
A. Yes
B. No
8. Which is CORRECT about semantics?
A. The objective of linguistics is the meaning of language.
B. The objective of semantics is the literal meaning of language.
C. The objective of semantics is the non-literal meaning of language.
D. The objective of semantics is the speaker’s meaning.
9. Look at the following utterance and state whether it is intended to be taken literally:
During a heated argument: ‘Don’t bite my head off!’
A. Yes
B. No
10. Decide whether the following statement is true or false:
“Every word has one exact meaning.”
A. True
B. False
11. If one knows the meaning of a word, is one therefore necessarily able to produce a clear and precise definition of its meaning?
A. Yes
B. No
12. Which of the following is NOT true about semantics?
A. Semantics is the study of words and their meanings within language placed within context.
B. Semantics limited to the relationship between words.
C. Semantics looks at the literal meanings of words.
13. At which level, remarried may be regarded a set of the four following semantic features?
[+human], [± male], [used to be married], and [+married again].
A. Sentence level
B. Utterance level
C. Word level
14. Decide which statement is true about (2)
(2) A: Do you like the wine I picked out?B: It’s Italian, isn’t it?
A. The pragmatic meaning of “It’s Italian, isn’t it?” in (2) is “Is it right that the wine is made in Italy?”
B. The pragmatic meaning of “It’s Italian, isn’t it?” in (2) is “I don’t like the wine you picked out”.
15. Decide whether the following statement is true or false:
“Semantic meaning is context-free.”
A. True
B. False
16. Which of the following is NOT an aspect included in Semantics?
A. Non-literal meaning
B. Sentence meaning
C. Word meaning (or, to be precise, lexical meaning)
D. Utterance meaning
17. Look at the following utterance and state whether it is intended to be taken literally:Tired traveler: ‘This suitcase is killing me’.
A. No
B. Yes
18. Decide whether the following statement is true or false:
“Every word has one exact meaning.”
A. False
B. True
19. Mark the following statement true or false
Alive means the opposite of dead
A. False
B. True
20. Look at the following utterance and state whether it is intended to be taken literally:
Hungry person at the dinner table: ‘I could eat a horse!’
A. No
B. Yes
