语言学Chapters 5

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1、Units5SemanticsI.DecidewhethereachofthefollowingstatementsisTrueorFalse.1.DialectalsynonymscanoftenbefoundindifferentregionaldialectssuchasBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishbutcannotbefoundwithinthevarietyitself,forexample,withinBritishEnglishorAmericanEnglish.F2.Senseisconcernedwit

2、htherelationshipbetweenthelinguisticelementandthenon-linguisticworldofexperience,whilethereferencedealswiththeinherentmeaningofthelinguisticform.F3.Linguisticformshavingthesamesensemayhavedifferentreferencesindifferentsituations.T4.Insemantics,meaningoflanguageisconsideredastheint

3、rinsicandinherentrelationtothephysicalworldofexperience.F5.Contextuallismisbasedonthepresumptionthatonecanderivemeaningfromorreducemeaningtoobservablecontexts.T6.Behavioristsattemptedtodefinethemeaningofalanguageformasthesituationinwhichthespeakeruttersitandtheresponseitcallsforth

4、inthehearer.T7.Themeaningofasentenceisthesumtotalofthemeaningofallitscomponents.F8.Mostlanguageshavesetsoflexicalitemssimilarinmeaningbutrankeddifferentlyaccordingtotheirdegreeofformality.T9.“itishot.”isano-placepredicationbecauseitcontainsnoargument.T10.Ingrammaticalanalysis,thes

5、entenceistakentobebasicunit,butinsemanticanalysisofasentence,thebasicunitispredication,whichistheabstractionofthemeaningofasentence.TII.Fillineachofthefollowingblankswithonewordwhichbeginswiththelettergiven.1.Semantics_______canbedefinedasthestudyofmeaning.2.Theconceptualistviewho

6、ldsthatthereisnod_irect______linkbetweenalinguisticformandwhatitrefersto.3.R__eference______meanswhatalinguisticformreferstointhereal,physicalworld;itdealswiththerelationshipbetweenthelinguisticelementandthenon-linguisticworldofexperience.4.Wordsthatarecloseinmeaningarecalleds_yno

7、nyms________.5.Whentwowordsareidenticalinsound,butdifferentinspellingandmeaning,theyarecalledh__omophones________.6.R_elational________oppositesarepairsofwordsthatexhibitthereversalofarelationshipbetweenthetwoitems.7.C_omponential________analysisisbasedonthebeliefthatthemeaningofa

8、wordcanbedividedintomeaningcompon