MOST LIKELY QUESTIONS: SEMANTICS(SANDWICH QUESTIONS WITH MARKING SCHEME, HOT QUESTIONS ON EACH UNIT WITH ANSWERS, LAST HOUR SCHEME)

LAST HOUR QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

LAST HOUR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON SEMANTICS

1. In communication, apart from miscalculations and misconstruing, ‘speaker meaning should be equal to hearer meaning. This means that...……

ANS: When the speaker says something, he makes meaning and get understood by the hearer while the hearer in turn makes meaning and gets understood by the speaker because meaning is shared or it is a common property of one speech community.

2. ‘‘Linguistic semantics is the study of the systematic ways in which languages structure meaning in words and sentences’’ True/False…. ANS: TRUE

3. What are the two ways in which many writers have investigated to explain the meaning of what we call ‘‘meaning?’’ ANS: The meaning of meaning by the noun ‘‘meaning’’ and the verb ‘‘to mean’’

4. ………. critically looked at the meaning of ‘meaning’ using both the noun ‘meaning’ and the verb ‘to mean’ in their investigation

5. ANS: Ogden and Richards (1962)

6. ……. claim that ‘meaning of meaning’ is the definition of something b. (Palmer, 1982). (Finegan and Besmer,1989), Ogden and Richards (1962:186-7). ANS: Finegan and Besmer (1989)

7. The listing of the defining features of an entity is called…..

Ans: componential analysis.

8. Using Ogden and Richards semiotic triangle, explain the following terms: (i) symbol (ii). Thought (iii). referent.

9. The symbol is a word, a phrase or a sentence - written or oral). The thought or reference. The physical entity or real experience becomes the referent.

10. Conceptual meaning can also be referred to as…. ANS: Denotative meaning

11. What are the two main kinds of meaning? ANS: Denotative and connotative (associative meaning)

12. The primary meaning of words found in dictionaries are……………….

13. How does a word achieve a connotative meaning? 1. Through repetition 2. Momentous ( occurrence of one important incident)

14. Conceptual meaning is associatively and stylistically neutral (True or False) False

15. Bad smell and the ugliness of sight are part of the sense of faeces in many cultures. With this strong association, the mention of faeces gives the idea of pungent smell and the ugly, repulsive sight. What type of meaning is present here? -Reflected

16. While Akosua was eating, Adamu mentions feaces; immediately, Akosua winces and stops eating. What type of meaning does Akosua get?- Reflected

17. Utterance meaning depends on certain factors. Mention two.-= Participants, time, event, speaker’s gestures and facial expressions, things said before and after a text, etc

18. State one way a word meaning contributes to sentence meaning?= It is the totality of meanings of individual words that give us sentence meaning.

19. Mention one way sentence meaning contributes to word meaning = Sentence meaning helps in identifying the meaning of most function words and morphemes.

20. Mention two problems associated with words. ANS: I.Lack of uniformity in the demarcation of word boundaries. II. Word seems to be boundary by rules of writing instead of the consideration of meaning

21. Instead of saying, ‘the car hit the boy, the speaker says, ‘‘the boy was hit by the car’’ What kind of meaning is derived the above similar statement= Thematic meaning.

22. The semiotic triangle helps in componential analysis. (True or False)

23. Mention two characteristics of word . ANS: i. A word does not permit interruption, ii. words are the smallest mobile units of language

24. What is lexical relation? = It is the connection, association or relation that exists between one word and another.

25. Ama is shorter than Esi is an example of which type of which lexical relation? ….Graded or Gradable antonyms

26. Male -female, True -false, is a type of which Complementary antonym

27. What are homonyms? They are words that sound alike but are different in meaning.

28. Buy-bye, read-reed, her-hair, are examples of…. Homophones

29. WHAT IS HOMOGRAPHS?

30. What is the difference between homonyms and homophones?

31. Mosquito, cockroach, beetle, ant, are all …..of insect

32. ……. is the capacity for a word or group of words to have multiple meanings or senses = Polysemy