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