This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 15 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the domain of colors, ..... is more marked than ..... A) Olive green / green. B) Green / mint. C) Emerald / pale yellow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Olive green / green. 2. Two words with very closely related meaning is ..... A) Antonyms. B) Homonyms. C) Synonyms. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synonyms. 3. According to Griffiths, what are prototypes? A) They are central members of the denotation of a word. B) They are final members of the denotation of a word. C) They are middle term members of the conotation of a word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are central members of the denotation of a word. 4. 'employer' vs. 'employee' are what kind of antonyms? A) Gradable. B) Reverse. C) Complementary. D) Converse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Converse. 5. How many referring expressions can be found in the following sentence?I saw a doctor yesterday. A) 0. B) 1. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 6. After Amy sneezed all of the salad, she proceeded to serve it to her guests. A) Subordinate Clause. B) Synecdoche. C) Slippery Slope. D) Solecism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subordinate Clause. 7. Feelings and reactions to words are the element of meaning called A) Associative meaning. B) Referential meaning. C) Definite meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Associative meaning. 8. In the Charles Peirce Triad there are three ways to represent something: A) Ironically Indexically Symbolically. B) Ironically Indexically Semantics. C) Ironically Interpreted Symbolically. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ironically Indexically Symbolically. 9. When one sentence being true means another sentence must also be true this is called? A) Logical. B) Contigency. C) Entitlement. D) Entailment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Entailment. 10. Which maxim is violated in the following conversation:A:"What time is it?"B: "It is 10:44 and 35.6 seconds" A) Quality. B) Quantity. C) Relevance. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantity. 11. Which maxim is violated in the following conversation:A: "Are you going to Steve's barbecue?"B: "A barbecue is an outdoor party." A) Quality. B) Quantity. C) Manner. D) Relevance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantity. 12. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.poor-rich A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gradable. 13. ..... depends in the context of the utterance and shared knowledge between the speaker and the hearer. A) Implicature. B) Presuposition. C) Speech acts. D) Word meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implicature. 14. It is an additional information used by the listeners to connect what is said to what must be meant. A) Inference. B) Speech act. C) Presuposition. D) Reference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inference. 15. Check which sentence is not literal A) My hair is black just like my mother's. B) His hair is red as a carrot. C) Her hair is beautiful since she got it cut. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His hair is red as a carrot. 16. Expressing someone else's meaning using different words to achieve clarity is the definition of ..... A) Ambiguity. B) Entailment. C) Paraphrasing. D) Collocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paraphrasing. 17. Classify this type of politeness strategy: "You wouldn't happen to have five dollars I could borrow, would you?" A) Bald-on-record. B) Positive politeness. C) Negative politeness. D) Off-receord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative politeness. 18. The time and place in which we encounter a linguistic expression. A) Physical context. B) Co-text. C) Semantic meaning. D) Associative meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical context. 19. An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. A) Theme. B) Thesis. C) Tone. D) Transition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 20. Classify this type of politeness strategy: "Give me five dollars." A) Bald-on-record. B) Positive politeness. C) Negative politeness. D) Off-record. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bald-on-record. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesSemantics Quiz 1Semantics Quiz 2Semantics Quiz 3Semantics Quiz 4Semantics Quiz 5Semantics Quiz 6Semantics Quiz 7Semantics Quiz 8Semantics Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books