semantics UAS

Decide whether the following could represent a sentence

• Not much

• I am a student.

• 'John is running'.

"The minister pronounced them husband and wife". Represents an......

• Utterance

• Sentence

Which of the followings is a correct description of 'sense'?

• Expression in the same language

• all words in a language may be used to refer, but only some words have sense

• If two expressions have the same referent, they always have the same sense

• the sense of an expression is its relationship to semantically equivalent or semantically related

which of the followings is a correct description of reference?

• the relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an utterance to pick that object out

• the set of all objects which can potentially be referred to by an expression

• a relationship between expressions and other expressions which have the same meaning

what do you think does the speaker mean when she/he says "Can you open the door?"

• The speaker wants to know if i have the ability to open the door

• the speaker does not make a sense

• the speaker is requesting me to open the door

• the speaker is asking me a question

You and your friend who has a fever enter your room. She shivers and tells you, "it's cold in here!" How would you interpret what she said?

• She feels cold

• She does not feel well because of the cold

• she wants me to increase the temperature in the room

• she is complimenting the temperature in my room

Which of the followings statements is the speaker making a commitment?

• "I checked her facebook profile yesterday"

• "i promise to love you for better or for worse"

• "i'm in love and i'm happy"

• "i think following my suggestion will get us a high grade"

"Thank you for reading my book" ia an example of which classification of the illocutionary act?

• assertive

• expressive

• commissive

• declaration

"can you pass the salt?" is an example of which classification of the illocutionary act?

• assertive

• commissive

• directive

• expressive

" I may not be your first but i promise i will be your last"

• assertive

• commissive

• declaration

• directive