School of Liberal Studies

ELS 106 – Semantics of English

Final Examination
Second Semester
AY: 2022-2023

Name: ___________________________________ Course & Section__________________

Date : ___________________________________ Instructor: Joan L. Torreon, MA-English

Directions: Answer the following. Identify the following terms. Write your answer in the sheets provided.

IDENTIFICATION. Write your answer on the space provided.

____________1. It is a formal imitation of the real denotandum/denotatum relation.

____________2. She is an Italian semiotician, psychoanalysis, film theorist and distinguish
professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness.
____________3. Is based on the utilization of symbols.
____________4. Can be described as a more or less sophisticated logico-epistemological
apparatus for handling basic distinction between meaning and reference.
____________5. It leads to articulatory types of expressions.
____________6. The symbols used in the purpose of abstractive mode.
____________7. It means only the reduction of redundancy in the lexicon and / or
grammar of natural language.
____________8. Function as substitutes for natural language expressions.
____________9. Enters into the various sciences.
____________10. Discipline in two ways, for the making of descriptive or theoretical
statements.
____________11. It is a finite set of observations, linguist who is working on a specific
language.
____________12. It is a consonant produced by closure of the lips, without vibrations of the
vocal cords and without nasal resonance.
____________13. It is an unvoiced non-nasal labio-dental spirant.
____________14. Is a late 20th century movement in philosophy and literary theory that
generally, questions the basic assumption of Western Philosophy in the
modern period (17th through 19th century).
____________15. Is a conventional institution a normative codification of different levels of
meaning appropriate to a type of situation.
____________16. According to this view our world is a great museum, the exhibits of which
are waiting to be classified by us.
____________17. The science of deductively value inferences or of logic truths.
____________18. It is the scientific study of meaning.
____________19. Is based on the utilization of symbols.
____________20. Function as substitutes for natural language expressions.
II. Multiple Choice. Choose the best answer.
21. They works chiefly with written documents, whose linguistic interpretation is a
Prerequisite for their use as sources of historical inference.
a. ethnologist b. linguistic c. historian d. scholar

22. It uses messages as evidence of the structure of the code in which they are sent, the
messages themselves being of no intrinsic interest except as exemplifications of rules of
 the code.
a. ethnologist b. linguistic c. historian d. scholar
23. The linguist who is working on a specific language can of course make only a smile set
of observations. This finite set is commonly called?
a. corpus b. speech c. message d. infinite
24. Reading and writing are normally occupied by?
a. auditory and motor imagery
b. visual and auditory imagery
c. listening and speaking
d. none of the above
25. Is a consonant produced by closure of the lips, without variations of the vocal cords
and without nasal resonance.
a. f b. d c. p d. m
26.It refers to the use of two languages in teaching, especially to foster, learning in
students trying to learn a new language.
a. Monolingualism b. polygot c. linguist d. bilingualism
27. Are through as more formal and clearly define.
a. language b. dialect c. speech d. none of the above
28. It is often regional and can be loosen and more fluid in use.
a. language b. dialect c. speech d. none of the above
29. The following are the forms of propositional coordination except?
a. analogy b. allusion c. connotation d. entailment
30. It is a concept that refers to a specific kind of relationship between two sentences.
a. entailment b. truth c. preference d. continuity
31. In the framework of this second order syntax texts may be said to entail one another in
many different ways except?
a. reproduction b. analization c. transposition d. elaboration
32. Views human development as a social mediated process in which children acquire
culture, values, beliefs, and problem solving strategies.
a. Lev Vygotsky b. Mikhail Bakhtin c. Wertsh d. Charles Morris
33. The following are Vygotsky’s three main tenets of SCT except?
a. The role of language in the development of human cognitive functioning.
b. The developmental analysis of mental process.
c. The social origin of human mental function.
d. None of the above.
34. The space between what a learner can do without the assistance and what a learner
can do without adults avoidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.
a. economic zone c. zonal point
b. zone of proxemal point d. zone of proximal development
35. It induces a mapping of schemata on truth values.
a. verified b. falsification c. truth d. none of the above
36. It is a knowledge-building dialogue where language use and language learning can
occur.
a. dialogue b. conversation c. collaborative dialogue d. collaborative conversation
37. He advocates the usage of conversation in the second language classroom because
symmetry of power is one of the main characteristics of a conversation.
a. Bley Vroman b. Van Lie c. Poehner & Lantolf d. Schegloff & Sacks
38. Philippines is in the western Pacific ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands.
a. True contingently b. True necessarily c. truth d. all of the above
39. In the Philippines Karaoke is a popular national activity.
a. True contingently b. True necessarily c. truth d. all of the above
40. Snow is purple.
a. True contingently b. True necessarily c. truth d. all of the above
 III. Matching Type. Match column A with column B

A B
_________41 Statement of the meaning of the word. a. evocation
.
_________42 It is an act of recalling. b. exemplification
.
_________43 Compare two things. c. segmentation
.
_________44 It uses examples. d. combination
.
_________45 Detailed explanation of anything complex. e. elaboration
.
_________46 Dividing a part or section. f. compression
.
_________47 Process of making a copy or something. g. reproduction
.
_________48 Process of merging or joining. h. analogy
.
_________49 Addition of more detail. i. transposition
.
_________50 An act of processing a word. j. analysis
.
k. definition
IV. Modified True or False. Write T if the statement is True and F if the statement is false,
underline the wrong word/phrase and supply the correct answer.

_______51 Many spoken forms existed in the past and still exist in the present without any
.
Corresponding written form.
_______52 Entailment means that if one sentence is true, then another sentence would also
. be false.
_______53 SLA means Second Learning Acquisition.
.
_______54 For Vygotsky, dialogue is not synonymous with the conventional meaning of a
. dialogue which presupposes the presence of two interlocutors who take turns at
producing utterances.
_______55 Logical analysis underdetermines differences of truth-value between different
. modes of inference.
_______56 Theoretical Discourse is when every inference is provisional is merely to
. intensify the necessity of making inferences.
_______57 Secondary grammar is a device for modelling the relations between texts and
. bits of text.
_______58 Aramaec is a language of the Northern Central or Northern Western, group that
. was originally spoken by ancient Middle Eastern people known as Arameans.
_______59 Contradictions are sometimes called short forms commonly combine a pronoun
. or noun and a verb, or a verb and not, in a shorter form.
_______60 Calligraphy is the art of writing words with the proper letters according to
. standard usage.

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