Peer Quiz

What is referential meaning?

• Referential meaning is the connection between words and the real-world entities they represent.
• Referential meaning is the emotional response to a word.
• Referential meaning is the sound of a word when spoken.
• Referential meaning is the grammatical structure of a sentence.

What are semantic roles?

• Semantic roles are the emotional responses to actions.
• Semantic roles are the physical locations of events.
• Semantic roles refer to the grammatical structure of sentences.
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  Semantic roles describe the functions that noun phrases fulfill within a sentence, such as agent (performer of an action) and theme (entity affected by an action).

What is componential analysis in semantics?

• Componential analysis is an approach that analyzes words in terms of their basic meaning components or features to understand their relationships and distinctions.

• Componential analysis focuses on the phonetic features of words.
• Componential analysis is a technique for analyzing sentence structure.
• Componential analysis is a method for creating new words in a language.

What is polysemy?

• Polysemy is when a word has only one meaning.
• Polysemy refers to the use of multiple words in a sentence.
• Polysemy is a linguistic term for a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different meaning.
• Polysemy is the phenomenon where a single word has multiple meanings.

What are homonyms?

• Homonyms are words that have different spellings and meanings.
• Homonyms are words that have the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings.
• Homonyms are words that sound different but have the same meaning.
• Homonyms are words that are always spelled the same and have the same meaning.

What is pragmatics in the field of linguistics?

• Pragmatics analyzes the historical development of languages.
• Pragmatics is the study of context-dependent meaning in language.
• Pragmatics focuses on the sounds of speech.
• Pragmatics is the study of sentence structure.

What is semantics?

• Semantics is the study of sentence structure.
• Semantics is the branch of linguistics concerned with meaning.
• Semantics is the analysis of grammatical rules.
• Semantics focuses on phonetics and pronunciation.

Which of the following examples indicates a spatial deixis?

• The sentence containing 'here' or 'there'.
• The sentence containing 'I' or 'you'.
• The sentence containing 'now' or 'then'.
• The sentence containing 'before' or 'after'.

Which sentence does exemplify a direct speech act?

• Please close the window.
• Closing the window would be nice.
• I think the window should be closed.
• Can you close the window?

Which of the following sentences contains an example of person deixis?

• She is reading a book.
• They went to the park.
• He will call you later.
• I am going to the store.