Semprag Quiz

Which of the following is not correct?

• Semantics is the study of language meaning

• Linguistics is the study of all dialects

• Pragmatics is the study of language use

• Linguistics is the study of language

Which of the following does not belong to linguistics?

• English pronunciation

• phonology

• morphology

• pragmatics

Which of the following is correct about semantics?

• Semantics is the study of the relation between language and user

• Semantics is the study of how a speaker uses the language

• Semantics is the study of the literal meaning of language

• Semantics is an independent subject

Which of the following is not correct about pragmatics?

• Pragmatics is the study of the speaker's meaning

• Pragmatics is the study of the linguistic meaning of language

• Pragmatics is the study of how a speaker uses the language

• Pragmatics is the study of the meaning of language in a particular situation

Which of the following statements is not true?

• The objective of semantics is the non-literal meaning of language

• The objective of linguistics is the language

• The means to convey the meaning in semantics is the sentence

• The means to convey the meaning in pragmatics is the utterance

Which of the following statements is not true?

• Pragmatics studies the relationship between language and objects

• Pragmatics studies the relationship between language and the user

• Pragmatics studies the speaker's meaning

• Pragmatics studies how and what for the speaker uses the language

Which of the following statements is not true?

• A sentence is a group of words linked by grammar to convey a complete meaning

• A sentence must contain at least one finite verb

• A sentence is a group of words out of context

• An utterance is a group of words context dependent

Which of the following statements is not true about utterance?

• The meaning of an utterance is the meanings of the constituent words

• An utterance is context bound / dependent

• The meaning of an utterance depends on the situation in which it is uttered

• An utterance is a sentence said in a particular situation

Which of the following statements is not true?

• It makes sense to talk of the time and place of a proposition.

• It is meaningless to talk of the time and place of a sentence

• A proposition must be meaningful

• It makes sense to talk of the truth of a sentence or an utterance.

Which of the following statements is not true?

• The pragmatic meaning is the meaning of the words in the sentence

• The meaning of an utterance varies with the situation in which it is said

• The semantic meaning is the meaning of the words in the sentence

• The meaning of a sentence is the semantic meaning