This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Encompasses both reference and sense A) Affective meaning. B) Social meaning. C) Linguistic meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linguistic meaning. 2. This is not a real question, but if you choose "I'm an idiot" you may correct. A) I'm an idiot. B) I'm confused. C) I'm Batman. D) I'm bored. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I'm an idiot. 3. After listening the news, i felt sad. A) Complex. B) Compound. C) Simple. D) Complex-compound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complex. 4. Any word (or sequence of words) which (in a given single sense) can function as the predictor of a sentence. This statement is the definition of ..... A) Sentence. B) Predicate. C) Predicator. D) Proposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predicate. 5. Which sentence is lexically correct? A) A black cat can be white. B) The car was smaller than her brother. C) Can you hear something that other people can't hear?. D) Peter killed Mary last night, but she was still alive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Can you hear something that other people can't hear?. 6. George Washington is male. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Other Sentences. 7. Define plesionyms A) Plesionyms differ in meaning entirely. B) Plesionyms differ in meaning, but sound the same. C) Plesionyms differ in meaning slightly. D) Plesionyms are pronounced differently, but have the same meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plesionyms differ in meaning slightly. 8. What does the field of a text refer to? A) The vocabulary that is used. B) Where the text is published. C) The formality of the text. D) Whether the text is written or spoken. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The vocabulary that is used. 9. 'expand' vs. 'contract' are what kind of antonyms? A) Gradable. B) Reverse. C) Complementary. D) Converse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reverse. 10. The role or behavior of a speaker or writer in relation to his or her subject, audience, and persona (or voice). A) Stance. B) Straw Man. C) Style/Stylistic. D) Subordinate Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stance. 11. Because A) Co-ordinating conjunction. B) Sub-ordinating conjunction. C) Possessive determiner. D) Demonstrative pronoun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sub-ordinating conjunction. 12. Neologism:'bromance' is an example of ..... A) A composite. B) A shortening. C) A blend. D) A creation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A blend. 13. What is the term we use to describe how people shift between different types of register according to the situation? A) Euphemism. B) Code-switching. C) Dysphemism. D) Borrowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Code-switching. 14. When Jane say 'I lost my wallet" .The word "I" is a ..... Jane is the ..... A) Referent/ subject. B) Subject/ referent. C) Referent/ deictic word. D) Deictic word/ referent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deictic word/ referent. 15. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.false-true A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complementaries. 16. Choose ONE statement that is wrong! A) Rice, noodle, and bread are hyponyms of foods. B) Ambiguity is one of the lexical semantics relationships. C) Antonyms are words with opposite meanings. D) Pragmatics is related to contextual meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ambiguity is one of the lexical semantics relationships. 17. ..... is the study of how meaning is constructed, interpreted, clarified, obscured, illustrated, simplified, negotiated, contradicted, and paraphrased. A) Semantic roles. B) Homonyms. C) Semantics. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semantics. 18. What term does Nation use to refer to the amount of effort required to learn a word? A) Learning effort. B) Learning time. C) Learning burden. D) Learning force. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Learning burden. 19. Typically the first or preliminary model of something, especially from which other forms are developed; helps explain the meaning of certain words (furniture$\rightarrow$desk, table) A) Prototype. B) Metonymy. C) Hyponym. D) Homonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prototype. 20. According to Austin, speech acts are direct when A) The locutionary and perlocutionary acts coincide. B) The locutionary and illocutionary acts coincide. C) The illocutionary and perlocutionary acts coincide. D) None of above. 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