Quiz Semantics

Semantics is the study of the relationships between signs and symbols and what they represent.

• True

• False

According to Chomsky, the relation between the word (signifier) and the concept (signified) is an arbitrary one, i.e. the word does not resemble the concept.

• True

• False

The Conceptual Theory of Meaning is the theory brought by Saussure.

• True

• False

Referent lives permanently in the dictionary, while sense, varies from occasion to occasion.

• True

• False

Jack and Jill are speaking to each other face to face. When Jack is speaking, ‘I’ refers to Jack, and ‘you’ refers to Jill. The use of ‘I’ and ‘you’ here is the example of deixis.

• True

• False

Semantics is concerned with speaker’s meaning, while pragmatics is concerned with sentence meaning.

• True

• False

Lyons differed the definition of referring and denoting.

• True

• False

Referential approach is the ability to talk about the world which depends on our mental models of it.

• True

• False

In reference as theory of meaning, adjectives denote the properties of actions.

• True

• False

We’ve just flown back from Paris. Paris in this sentence is the referent.

• True

• False