*QUESTIONS*

*CONCEPT*

*1. Which words are focused in lexical semantics?*

A. lion, jasmine, selfish, persuade. ✅

B. the, of, than.

*2. What is semantic narrowing?*

✅
A. A type of semantic change by which the meaning of a word becomes less general or
inclusive than its earlier meaning.

B. The loss or reduction of meaning in a word as a result of semantic change.

*3. What are the common types of semantic change?*

I. Broadening
II. Pejoration
III. Polysemy

✅
A. I
B. I & II
C. II & III

*4. Semantics is the study of how language is used to create meaning - any observation or
judgement related to the meaning of a word, and all the subtle differences in meaning
between words, comes under semantics.*

A. True ✅
B. False

*5. Hyponym refers to a word with a more specific meaning, e.g., laptop, scarlet, armchair.*

A. True ✅
B. False

*6. What does Deixis mean?*

✅
A. Deixis is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person
in context.

B. Deixis is based on the information that is right and combined with experiences.

*7. Which is the type of speech acts?*

A. Directive Acts ✅
B. Locutionary Acts

*8. How to help students with weak pragmatics skills?*

A. Explicitly teach social language "rules". ✅

B. Give them video game.

*9. Presuppose factive uses the truth as an assumption.*

A. True ✅
B. False

*10. What is the main use of anaphora?*

A. Make a forward reference in a text, is identified with a pronoun.

B. Repetition at the start of the sentence and reinforce meaning. ✅

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*APPLICATIONS*

*1. "I am so hungy, I could eat a horse."*

*By applying semantics, we observe the literal meaning of the sentence above and assume
that the person
wants to eat a horse.*

A. True ✅
B. False

*2. "If Jasmine cannot go to the morning appointment, she will go to the afternoon one. (one
= appointment)."*

*This is an example of what type of linguistic reference?*

✅
A. Deixis
B. Anaphora

*3. "A triangle has four sides" is an example of a _______________ sentence.*

✅
A. Analytic
B. Contradictory

*4. "Borrower" is an example of "gradable antonyms."*

 ✅
A. True
B. False

*5. Decide which words are function words in the following sentence:*

*The children will be swimming in the ocean at five o'clock.*

A. The, will be, in, the, at. ✅

B. Children, swimming, ocean, five, o'clock.

*6. "Your brother wants to see you. Your brother doesn't want to see you." --> YOU HAVE A
BROTHER.*

✅
A. Entailment
B. Presupposition

*7. "Stay safe. Stay well. Stay happy."*

A. Anaphora ✅
B. Cataphora

*8. Bruce has a very advanced sense of what is socially appropriate. He always knows what
to say in every social context. He has which kind of linguistic competence?*

A. Pragmatic ✅
B. Syntactic

*9. Select the example which belongs to Presuppose Non-Factive:*

A. Where did she go?

B. He pretends to be working. ✅
*10. What are examples of spatial deixis?*

A. Now, then, tonight, last week, yesterday.

B. Here, there, over here, over there. ✅