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    This document contains questions about semantics from chapters 1-3 of a linguistics textbook. It asks about key concepts in semantics like meaning, entailment, signification, and the difference between signifier and signified. It also questions how context, metalanguage, and encyclopedic knowledge relate to semantics. Other topics covered include the relationship between semantics and syntax in models of grammar, how word and sentence meaning are constructed, and the differences between literal and non-literal meaning through devices like metaphor, irony and hyperbole. Finally, it examines the differences between semantics and pragmatics, and introduces speaker meaning and the language theory of meaning.

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    This document contains questions about semantics from chapters 1-3 of a linguistics textbook. It asks about key concepts in semantics like meaning, entailment, signification, and the difference between signifier and signified. It also questions how context, metalanguage, and encyclopedic knowledge relate to semantics. Other topics covered include the relationship between semantics and syntax in models of grammar, how word and sentence meaning are constructed, and the differences between literal and non-literal meaning through devices like metaphor, irony and hyperbole. Finally, it examines the differences between semantics and pragmatics, and introduces speaker meaning and the language theory of meaning.

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    Semantics in Linguistics CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS

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    This document contains questions about semantics from chapters 1-3 of a linguistics textbook. It asks about key concepts in semantics like meaning, entailment, signification, and the difference between signifier and signified. It also questions how context, metalanguage, and encyclopedic knowledge relate to semantics. Other topics covered include the relationship between semantics and syntax in models of grammar, how word and sentence meaning are constructed, and the differences between literal and non-literal meaning through devices like metaphor, irony and hyperbole. Finally, it examines the differences between semantics and pragmatics, and introduces speaker meaning and the language theory of meaning.

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    Semantics in linguistics CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS.

    Pag 3-7
    - What is semantics?
    - What is phonology?
    - What is syntax?
    - What is entailment? Give some examples?
    - What is signification?
    - What is semiotics?
    - What is the difference between signifier and signified?
    - Define icon and symbol give some examples?
    - Why is circulatory a problem?
    - What are the distinction between linguistic and encyclopaedic knowledge ?
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    Pag 7-9. (meeting the challenges)

    - What does context have to do with meaning?


    - What is Metalanguage and how is it used as a solution strategy?
    - What is encyclopaedic knowledge?
    - What is mental lexicon?
    - Is contextual information an issue in doing semantics, why?

    Pag 9-10 (semantics in a Model of Grammar)

    - What is syntax?
    - When is semantics viewed as a component equal and parallel to syntax?
    - Why is linguistic knowledge modularized?
    - Why is meaning associated to the theory Cognitive Grammar?

    Pag 10 ( word meaning and sentence meaning)

    - What does productivity have to do with word and sentence meaning?


    - Why is sentence meaning compositional?

    Pag 11 - 15

    - The meaning of linguistic expressions derives from two sources. Mention and explain.
    - Explain the three levels of language.
    - What is the difference between literal and non-literal meaning?
    - What is metaphor?
    - What is Irony?
    - What is Synecdoche?
    - what is hyperbole?
    - What is litotes?

    Pag 17 - 19

    What is pragmatics?
    What are the differences between semantics and pragmatics?
    How can we distinguish between speaker meaning and sentence meaning?
    What is the language theory of meaning?

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