TOK I Reading Quiz: Chapter 4

Which of the following is NOT a key feature of language?

• language is rule-governed
• language is intended
• language is creative and open-ended
• language is only verbal

Language must have a grammar.

• True
• False

You must know what a sentence means before you can decide whether it is true or false.

• True
• False

Denotation theory states that the meaning for words corresponds to...

• dictionary entries
• actual things in the world
• mental images

Which of the following is NOT one of the five kinds of problematic meanings?

• context
• vagueness
• ambiguity
• secondary meanings
• metaphor

Connotation is

• the ideas and associations a word evokes in addition to its literal meaning
• a softer-sounding word or phrase used to disguise something unpleasant
• a figure of speech which makes an implicit comparison between two things
• a figure of speech in which words are used to say one thing and mean the opposite

Which of the following is NOT one of the three problems that arise in translating something from one language to another?

• context
• untranslatable words
• idiom
• metaphor

One danger with putting labels on people is that our labels can easily harden into stereotypes.

• True
• False

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that

• language determines our experience of reality
• language is a fixed and oversimplified negative picture of a group
• language should be censored based on its offensive nature
• all language is a colloquial expression whose figurative meaning cannot be deciphered from its literal meaning

Language does not have the power to conceal by diverting attention.

• True
• False