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Noncompositionality refers to ...
- ... all phrasal verbs
- ... the fact that we cannot understand a lexical item by understanding its parts
- ... the fact that we can understand a lexical item by understanding its parts
- ... all colloquial language
'usage' refers to ...
- ... accuracy of form
- ... value
- ... signification
- ... how a word is used in reality
Of the following, only one type of communication fully qualifies as linguistic. Which one?
- people talking
- whale communication
- birdsong
- bees dancing
Litotes is ...
- ... deliberate overstatement
- ... sarcasm
- ... deliberate understatement
- ... irony
Connotation refers to ...
- ... additional emotive meaning
- ... what we understand the word to mean
- ... the cultural importance of a word
- ... the word's fundamental meaning
The referent is ...
- ... what the word stands for
- ... the extra meaning we attach to the word
- ... the particular instance of what we mean
- ... the word's general sense
The statement: "I name this ship Poseidon" is an example of ...
- ... illocutionary force
- ... resultative force
- ... perlocutionary force
- ... locutionary force
Semantics is a branch of
- structural linguistics
- meaning theory
- semiotics
- communicative language theory
Saying "Sailing yachts can be interesting" is an example of breaking the maxim of ...
- ... relation
- ... manner
- ... quality
- ... quantity
The headword in a dictionary is usually the ...
- ... lemma
- ... denotation
- ... lexeme
- ... root