WorksheetsSemantics Final Mock Test - LÝ THUYẾT
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 26mins
"A contradictory sentence, which is also called "A _ is a sentence that is necessarily FALSE, as a result of the senses of the words in it. Thus a contradiction is in a way the opposite of an analytic sentence." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 93]
(a)
A(An) ANALYTIC sentence is one that is necessarily TRUE, as a result of the _ of the words in it." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 91-92]
senses
meaning
denotation
None is correct.
A(An) _ sentence a sentence that is necessarily FALSE, as a result of the senses of the words in it. Thus a contradiction is in a way the opposite of an analytic sentence." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 93]
Synthetic
Analytic
Contradictionary
None is correct.
“The presupposition of an utterance remains the same under its NEGATION“ is TRUE or FALSE?
True
False
A(An) contradictionary sentence a sentence that is necessarily _, as a result of the senses of the words in it. Thus a contradiction is in a way the opposite of an analytic sentence." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 93]
TRUE
CONTRACTIONARY
FALSE
None is correct.
_ is what a speaker or writer assumes that the receiver of the message already knows
Proposition
Speech act
Utterance meaning
Presupposition
A(An) ANALYTIC sentence is one that is necessarily _, as a result of the _ of the words in it." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 91-92]
FALSE
ACCURATE
TRUE
None is correct.
Presupposition is what a speaker or writer _ that the receiver of the message already knows
(a)
_ are inferences about what is assumed to be true in the utterance rather than directly asserted to be true
Proposition
Speech act
Utterance meaning
Presupposition
UTTERANCE MEANING is what a speaker means when he makes a(an) _ in a particular situation.
(a)
“The presupposition of an utterance remains the same under its interrogation ” is True or False?
False
True
A speech act is a/an_ as a functional unit in communication." [Richards et al, 1985: 265]
Proposition
Speech
Utterance
sentence
A _ act is an UTTERANCE as a functional unit in communication." [Richards et al, 1985: 265]
Proposition
Speech act
Utterance meaning
Presupposition
A(An) _ sentence is one that is necessarily TRUE, as a result of the senses of the words in it." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 91-92]
Synthetic
Analytic
Contradictionary
None is correct.
_ meaning (also known as propositional meaning), which is its basic literal meaning conveyed by its particular words and structure(s)
locutionary
illocutionary
Utterence
Sentence
A speech act has _ kind(s) of meaning (WRITE YOUR ANSWER IN WORDS, NOT NUMBER)
(a)
Locutionary meaning (also known as _ meaning), which is its basic literal meaning conveyed by its particular words and structure(s)
illocutionary force
propositional
denotative
Sentence
There are _ main types of speech acts, according to Searl (1981) (WRITE YOUR ANSWER IN WORDS, NOT NUMBERS)
(a)
A(An) _ sentence is one that is necessarily TRUE, as a result of the senses of the words in it." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 91-92]
Synthetic
Analytic
Contradictionary
None is correct.
The _ changes the world by bring about or altering the state of affairs it names: dismissing, sentencing, naming, announcing marriage, etc.
rogative
commissive.
directive
declarative
_ meaning (also known as illocutionary force), which is the effect the utterance might have on the hearer
locutionary
illocutionary
Utterence
Sentence
"An important part of the meaning of _ is what speakers DO by uttering them." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984. 334)
sentences
Speech acts
utterances
Presupposition
illocutionary meaning (also known as illocutionary force), which is the effect the utterance might have on the _
(a)
The _ describes a state of affairs in the world:
asserting, stating, claiming, affirming, making hypotheses, describing, predicting, reporting, etc. The _ can generally be characterized as being true or false
(a)
The representative describes a _ of affairs in the world:
asserting, stating, claiming, affirming, making hypotheses, describing, predicting, reporting, etc. The representative can generally be characterized as being true or false
(a)
What is the type of speech act in the blank:
(a)
The _ indicates the speaker's
psychological state(s) or feeling(s)/attitude(s) about something: greeting, apologizing, complaining, thanking, etc.
representative
commissive.
directive
expressive
The _ can generally be characterized as being true or false.
(a)
The _ intends to get the listener to carry out an action: commanding, requesting, begging, warning, challenging, inviting, suggesting, giving advice, etc
representative
commissive.
directive
expressive
The _ refers to a special kind of directives which deals with requests for information and which is typically in form of a question.
rogative
commissive.
directive
expressive
Performing a _ speech act, the speaker utters a sentence which means exactly what he or she says.
(a)
What is the type of speech act in the blank:
(a)
The _ commits the speaker to the course of action: promising, vowing, threatening, offering, etc.
(a)
_ is "the relationship between a word and a combination of other words with the same meaning.
(a)
A sentence which expresses the same proposition as another sentence is a _ of that sentence.
synonym
paraphrase
speech act
Homonym
Sentences are _ if they have the same meaning (except possibly for minor differences in emphases)
(a)
