ENG508 Midterm Quiz from Assessments

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Maha Malik Semantics and Pragmatics

1. In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. (True)
2. A significant term in the discussion of meaning is called............... (proposition)
3. Implicit meanings are usually attractive, makes conversational exchanges more interesting. (True)
4. ”John is a machine”, it doesn’t create implicit meaning. (False)
5. Semantics is the major field of linguistics that is devoted to the study of meaning. (False)
6. Which of the following is concerned with word meaning: (Lexical Semantics)
7. Sentences have the spacio-temporal and physical properties. (False)
8. Semantics is the study of literal, de-contextualized and grammatical meaning. (True)
9. Meaning is the most essential part of ……….. (linguistic knowledge)
10. The term “semantics” was first used to refer the development and change of meaning. (True)
11. Word ‘bitter’ came from the word’Bitting’ this phenomena is called “Metaphor”in the historical development of semantics. (True)
12. When we have an idea of anthropology of a society we can easily understand the behavior of the people through......................... (culture)
13. Speaker creates infinite number of sentences on the base of................ (vocabulary)
14. Knowledge of ordinary language can make logical thinking more....................... (attractive)
15. Signified is not the concept referred by signifier. (False)
16. An utterance is the smallest unit of speech. (True)
17. Literal meanings are also called…....... (conventional meanings)
18. According to first school of thoughts, Syntax, Morphology and Semantics are the three branches of pure linguistics. (True)
19. An utterance is a bit of spoken and written language. (False)
20. Traffic lights are the combination of colors to instruct the drivers and even to warn them. (True)
21. To describe the certain words in the real world as true or false are conveyed through.......................... (proposition)
22. ” I could eat a horse” or” my stomach is screaming for food” is an example of…..... (non-literal meanings)
23. A meaning is not the combination of intention and extension. (False)
24. Idea theory of meaning helps us to understand the meaning with the help of concepts. (True)
25. The theory “ putting meanings together from pieces” is known as.................... (compositional theory)
26. Meanings of word/phrase sentence depends upon its relationship with other words. (True)
27. Truth conditions don’t help us to explain logical words and semantic relations. (False)
28. Social uses of the words help us to understand the meaning of those words. (True)
29. Some theorists believe that meanings are.......................... (social practices)
30. The linguistics meaning is called ‘denotative, logical and cognitive meanings. (True)
31. Connotative refers to peripheral meanings. (True)
32. The meaning conveyed by the piece of language about the social context of its use is called the social meaning. (True)
33. Personal feelings of the speaker reflect ................... (affective meaning)
34. The sentence “kidney was donated by a young man voluntarily” is........................... (passive voice)
35. There is a relationship between a word and an image which emerged in our mind. (True)
36. Necessary and sufficient conditions are one traditional approaches to describe concepts. (True)
37. Thought, language and reality is the combination of linguistics relativity. (True)
38. A thought without language is misleading according to some scientists. (True)
39. Pinker (1994) says that language and thinking are not the same. (False)
40. Prototypes provide some insights into the way we conceive certain ideas. (True)
41. Lexical relations are relationship of the meaning of the words to each other. (True)
42. Semantics and lexical meanings of the word “walk” are not the same. (False)
43. Words which occur together repeatedly and have different meanings are called Homophones. (True)
44. A word with two or more possible meanings is called ambiguous word. (True)
45. Couch and sofa are the............... (synonyms)
46. We rely on our memory heavily when we are unable to identify the meaning of the word in a particular context. (True)
47. The relationship between carrot and vegetable is Hyponymy. (True)
48. Nail is the Meronym of finger. (True)
49. Gold, taupe, and chestnut are the basic terms of colors. (True)
50. The Core vocabulary could be used to trace lexical links. (True)
51. The words which show the reason and cause for the change are called causative words. (True)
52. Skier, walker and calculator are the examples of Agentive nouns. (True)
53. A button is not the meronym of shirt. (False)
54. The word in a semantic field share a common semantic property. (True)
55. A paradigm is a set of linguistics. (True)
56. The kinds of semantics field vary from culture to culture. (True)
57. A common semantic property is not shared in semantic field. (False)
58. Which is a rigid word and can’t be changed because of other linguistic choices in a language relates to phonemes. (False)
59. The meanings of the words are defined by the company of other words. (True)
60. Collocations are not those words which appear habitually together. (False)
61. Which one of the following concept belongs to the same grammatical categories: (collocations)
62. In Modes Pones step A and B are called premises. (True)
63. Propositional logic is also called propositional calculus. (True)
64. Two sentence can be considered to have the relationship of entailment. (True)