Semantics Final Mock Test - LÝ THUYẾT

"A contradictory sentence, which is also called "A _ is a sentence that is necessarily FALSE, as a result of the senses of the words in it. Thus a contradiction is in a way the opposite of an analytic sentence." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 93]

A(An) ANALYTIC sentence is one that is necessarily TRUE, as a result of the _ of the words in it." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 91-92]

• senses

• meaning

• denotation

• None is correct.

A(An) _ sentence a sentence that is necessarily FALSE, as a result of the senses of the words in it. Thus a contradiction is in a way the opposite of an analytic sentence." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 93]

• Synthetic

• Analytic

• Contradictionary

• None is correct.

“The presupposition of an utterance remains the same under its NEGATION“ is TRUE or FALSE?

• True

• False

A(An) contradictionary sentence a sentence that is necessarily _, as a result of the senses of the words in it. Thus a contradiction is in a way the opposite of an analytic sentence." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 93]

• TRUE

• CONTRACTIONARY

• FALSE

• None is correct.

_ is what a speaker or writer assumes that the receiver of the message already knows

• Proposition

• Speech act

• Utterance meaning

• Presupposition

A(An) ANALYTIC sentence is one that is necessarily _, as a result of the _ of the words in it." [Hurford and Heasley, 1984: 91-92]

• FALSE

• ACCURATE

• TRUE

• None is correct.

Presupposition is what a speaker or writer _ that the receiver of the message already knows

_ are inferences about what is assumed to be true in the utterance rather than directly asserted to be true

• Proposition

• Speech act

• Utterance meaning

• Presupposition

UTTERANCE MEANING is what a speaker means when he makes a(an) _ in a particular situation.