Wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Semantics - Chapter 1

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Semantics is...

a)

the study of word formation.

b)

the study of the sound system of language.

c)

the study of meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.

2.

Connotations are associations that speakers have with words. Choose all the words that have positive connotations.

a)

Senior Citizen

b)

Third World

c)

childlike

d)

number 4 (in Chinese culture)

3.

Semantics can be divided into the study of which three categories? (Choose the three that apply)

a)

Sense

b)

Pragmatics

c)

Reference

d)

Truth

4.

The study of reference can be divided into which two areas..

a)

prototype

b)

linguistic reference

c)

speaker reference

d)

coreference

5.

She said "bye" and died.

a)

This is an utterance

b)

This is a sentence

6.

Maria is cooking pasta, she is a great chef.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

7.

Sense deals with relationship....

a)

inside the language

b)

intralinguistic relationships

c)

outside the language

d)

liguistic boundaries within language

8.

Reference is a relationship in which....

a)

a symbol or signsignifies something

b)

refers to which person or thing being talked about

c)

deals with something having linguistic relationship

9.

It includes knowing the pronunciation of a word, how to construct sentences and the meanings of those combinations.

a)

Syntactic knowledge

b)

Linguistic knowledge

c)

Semantic knowledge

10.

levels of abstraction

a)

utterance

b)

sentence

c)

proposition

1)
2)
3)
11.

draw the semiotic triangle of meaning