Take Home Midterm Test:
Semantics
Elaborate the answers for the
following questions!
1. Explain how the process of encoding
and decoding correlate with semantics!
2. Semantics is the systematic
study of meaning. What is meant by this statement?
3. To what extent semantics and
pragmatics differ each other?
4. Explain 3 stages of interpretation
(literal – explicature – implicature)! Provide your own illustration!
5. What might happen if a speaker and
the interlocutor do share the same pragmatic knowledge when communicating but
the signal is too little? Why?
6. The word ‘mirror’ is meaningful. Define
its meaning based on the mentalistic theory!
7. ‘This website is frozen’. How would
you interpret the meaning of this statement by taking into account its semantic features!
8. What do you think the role of grammar
in semantics?
9. Based on the grammatical semantics,
what is the difference between these two sentences below?
a.
The
man is cleaning the room
b.
The
boy is crying
10. Do you think the McDonald slogan ‘I’m
loving it’ is grammatically correct? Why? How does such grammatical construction impact its meaning?
11. What is componential analysis?
12. What is the difference between
extension and intention? Provide the examples!
Good Luck
P. S :
Late submission as well as ‘friendship – solidarity - cheating’ lead to disqualification
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