ENG508 Collection of Assessments by Maha Malik

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)