1. Semantics is:
The study of words origins.
The study of words meaning.
The study of how words are structured in sentences.
The study of meaning that a word or a sentence has in a particular context.
2. Language speakers can say one thing and mean another thing through
The usual meaning of a word or a sentence.
What words mean in the dictionary.
The meaning that a word or a sentence has in specific contexts or circumstances.
What sentences mean without looking at the context.
3. All the followings are examples of paralanguage except for:
Nodding
Laughing
Giggling
Crying
4. The meaning of a word is included in another word, in the case of:
Polysemy
Synonymy
Hyponymy
Entailment
5. What is the basic lexical relation between each pair of words listed here?
story & tale….. synonyms
heavy & light…… antonyms
fruit & banana …… hyponyms
peace & piece …… homophones
6. What does “prototype” mean? Illustrate your definition with an example.
the best example for a certain category ....for example the robin--->birds
7. Waiting impatiently for food at a restaurant, the man said: “I can eat a horse right now.” Explain the meaning of this quotation in some details.
it's an utterance related to the an event witch means he is so hungry he could eat anything in front of him
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10. Tell which of the following opposites are gradable, non-gradable, or reversive.
fill it / empty it reversives
absent / present non gradable
old / young gradable
fair / unfair non gradable
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