WorksheetsSemantics - Chapter 1
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
sentence
proposition
draw the semiotic triangle of meaning
