MIDTERM TEST 2

Part 1. Decide if each of the following sentences is true or false. Indicate your answer by
writing down T (True) or F (False) at the end of each sentence. (1 point)
Sentences T/F
1. The same semantic feature may come from words of different parts of speech.
2. Actually, semantics is a branch of linguistics which deals with meaning in context-
free.

Part 2.  Identify the sense relation of each pair of words. (1 point)

Quetion Answer
1. move - run
2. peace - piece

Part 3.  Interpret the meaning of the following sentences and state what kind of figure of
speech used in each of them. (2 points)
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Q. 1  The skinheads have constituted a social problem in the west.
Kind of figure of speech:

Meaning:
Q. 2 The boss gave her a hot look.
Kind of figure of speech:

Meaning:

.Part 4. Paraphrase each of the following sentences in two ways to show that you
understand the ambiguity involved. (2 points)
Q. 1 Visiting relatives can be boring.
Meaning one:

Meaning two:
Q. 2  The old men and women stayed at home.
Meaning one:

Meaning two:

Part 5. Write down one implicature that can be drawn from the second speaker’s
response in each of the following conversations. (2 points)

Q. 1. Daughter: ‘I think I’ll put on the wool suit.’

Mother: ‘You’ll be too hot in the sun.’
Implicature:
Q. 2 Wife: ‘The bathroom’s flooded!’
Husband: ‘Someone must have left the tap on.

Implicature:

Part 6. For each of the following utterances, provide two situations so that one utterance
performs two different acts. Interpret the utterances and identify the acts performed in

Q. 1 “The ice cream is in the fridge.”

SITUATION 1:

SITUATION 2: