Studying Meaning

Question 1

It is the study of meanings of words, phrases and sentences

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Semantics

Question 2

deals with the conventional meaning conveyed

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Linguistics semantics

Question 3

there is always an attempt to focus on what the words conventionally mean

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Semantic Analysis

Question 4

covers those basic essential components of meaning that are conveyed by the literal use of a word

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Conceptual meaning

Question 5

It is the entity that performs the action

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Agent

Question 6

It is involved in or affected by the action

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Theme

Question 7

When an agent uses another entity in order to perform an action

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Instrument

Question 8

When a noun or phrase is used to designate an entity as

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Experiencer

Question 9

where the entity is

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Location

Question 10

where the entity moves from

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Source

Question 11

where the entity moves to

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Goal

Question 12

What are the lexical relations?

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Synonyms
Antonyms
Hyponymy
Prototype
Homophones
Homonyms
Polysemy
Metonymy
Collocation

Question 13

two or more words with very closely related meanings

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synonyms

Question 14

two forms with opposite meanings

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antonyms

Question 15

What are the types of antonyms?

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Gradable and non-gradable

Question 16

It is opposite along a scale

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Gradable

Question 17

It is the direct opposites

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Non-gradable

Question 18

when the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another

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Hyponymy

Question 19

helps explain the meaning of certain words, not in terms of component features but in terms of resemblance to the clearest example.

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prototype

Question 20

two or more different (written forms) have the same pronunciation

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Homophones

Question 21

when one form (written or spoken) has two or more unrelated meanings.

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Homonyms

Question 22

when we encounter two or more words with the same form and related meanings

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Polysemy

Question 23

A type of relationship based on a close connection in everyday experience, which can be based on: container-contents relation (bottle / water, can /juice) whole-part relation (car / wheels, house / roof) representative-symbol relationship (king / crown, the President /White House).

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Metonymy

Question 24

One way we seem to organize our knowledge of words.

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Collocation

Question 25

it is the interaction of semantic knowledge with knowledge of the world

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Pragmatics

Question 26

This means the literal meaning

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Denotation

Question 27

are produced by a particular sender in a specific situation

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Utterances

Question 28

It is an abstract linguistic object on which an utterance is based

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Sentence

Question 29

What are the three stages of interpretation

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Literal Meaning
Explicature
Implicature

Question 30

• semantic knowledge
• semantics of sentence in the abstract

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Literal Meaning

Question 31

• basic interpretation using contextual information
• pragmatics of reference and disambiguation

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Explicature

Question 32

• hinted by an utterance in its particular context. It is what the sender’s “agenda” is.
• Pragmatic hints

Answer 32

Implicature

Question 33

whatever the expression denotes

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Denotation

Question 34

the process of learning words by pint

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Ostension

Question 35

systems of formal logic

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Formal Semantics

Question 36

aspects of the meaning of an expression that give it the dentation it has

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sense

Question 37

use language to explain meanings

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sense relations