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Eng508

Semantics And Pragmatics

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Chapter #01

Q1. Semantics is the part of linguistics that is concerned with the study of:

1. Literal meaning
2. De contextualized meaning
3. Grammatical meaning
4. All of the given option

Correct answer: All of the given option

Q2. _______Describes how languages organized and Express meanings:

1. Linguistics semantics
2. Semantics
3. Pragmatics

Correct answer: Linguistics semantics

Q3. The language uses a system of linguistic signs, each of which is combination of______?

1. Meanings
2. Phonological forms
3. Orthographic forms
4. All of them

Correct answer: All of them

Q4. In the semantic analysis there is always an attempt to focus on what the words ___ means?

1. Pragmatically
2. Semantically
3. Conventionally
4. Literally

Correct answer: Conventionally

Q5. Pragmatic is the study of meaning as :

1. Communicated by the speaker and interpreted by the listener
2. Communicated by the listener and interpreted by the speaker
3. Communicated by the native speaker

Correct answer: Communicated by the speaker and interpreted by the listener

Q6. According to whom pragmatic is the study of invisible meaning:

1. Chomsky
2. Yule
3. Skinner

Correct answer: Yule

Q7. Pragmatics may vary from:

1. Speaker to speaker
2. Language to Language
3. Culture to culture

Correct answer: Culture to culture

Q8. The relation between linguistic form and communicative function __interest in pragmatics?

1. Central
2. Primary
3. Secondary

Correct answer: Central

Q9. Both romantic and pragmatics involved –studying ___?

1. Meanings
2. Context
3. Lexical relation

Correct answer: Meanings

Q10. Lexical semantics deals with the

1. Words /meaning
2. Words
3. Context

Correct answer: Words /meaning

Q11. according to Chapman semantic is concerned with sentence and pragmatic is concerned with :

1. Utterance
2. Phrases
3. Paragraph

Correct answer: Utterance

Q12. The most obvious distinction between sentence and utterance is:

1. Utterance will have Spatio temporal and physical properties
2. Utterance don’t have spatio temporal and physical properties
3. Utterance only have physical properties

Correct answer: Utterance will have Spatio temporal and physical properties

Q13. Sentences are___ linguistics structures?

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a. Abstract

b. Complex c. Simple

Q14. ___ is concerned with the ways in which ideas relate each other:

1. Language
2. Logic
3. Semantics

Correct answer: Logic

Q15. The basic unit of traditional logic is:

1. Proposition
2. Linguistics
3. Semantics

Correct answer: Proposition

Q16. Propositions are the meanings that are expressed by____ sentences?

1. Declarative
2. Imperative
3. Questions

Correct answer: Declarative

Q17. The logical meanings of Simple proposition is determined by principle of__?

1. Compositionality
2. Disproportionately
3. Asymmetry

Correct answer: Compositionality

Q18. The meaning of proposition is composed to the meaning of subject plus:

1. Meaning of subject
2. Meaning of the word
3. Meaning of sentence

Correct answer: Meaning of subject

Q19. Implicit meanings conveys a lot more than what is ____?

1. Literally expressed
2. Contextually expressed
3. Expressed by Language

Correct answer: Literally expressed

Chapter #02

Q1. Semantic is ____ term to refer meaning ?

1. Social
2. Psychological
3. Technical

Correct answer: Technical

2. Linguistic description is term used to show speaker: