Semantics - Chapter 1

Semantics is...

• the study of word formation.

• the study of the sound system of language.

• the study of meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.

Connotations are associations that speakers have with words. Choose all the words that have positive connotations.

• Senior Citizen

• Third World

• childlike

• number 4 (in Chinese culture)

Semantics can be divided into the study of which three categories? (Choose the three that apply)

• Sense

• Pragmatics

• Reference

• Truth

The study of reference can be divided into which two areas..

• prototype

• linguistic reference

• speaker reference

• coreference

She said "bye" and died.

• This is an utterance

• This is a sentence

Maria is cooking pasta, she is a great chef.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

Sense deals with relationship....

• inside the language

• intralinguistic relationships

• outside the language

• liguistic boundaries within language

Reference is a relationship in which....

• a symbol or signsignifies something

• refers to which person or thing being talked about

• deals with something having linguistic relationship

It includes knowing the pronunciation of a word, how to construct sentences and the meanings of those combinations.

• Syntactic knowledge

• Linguistic knowledge

• Semantic knowledge

levels of abstraction

• utterance

• proposition

• sentence