English Semantics & Meaning / Intro to Semantics Sem 2 Quiz 2 Ucc CoDE 2021/2022

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1. Linguistic context includes the following, except

2. Look at the exchange below.

Grace:  When did you come? 
Linda:  Last night

When Linda's response is understood within a context, we can say that context functions to

3. Headmaster to student: "You haven't paid your fees". The PERLOCUTIONARY meaning of the Headmaster's utterance is that he

4. Which of the following structures is a cleft construction?

5. Which of the following constructions is least acceptable?

6. 'Amina loved the soft ones' is an ambiguous statement.

7. Sentence meaning and utterance meaning are linguistically the same.

8. STOP; MEN AT WORK.

The above statement is ambiguous as a result of careless punctions.

9. 'David worked harder than Peter'

The statement above presupposes that Peter worked.

10. Deriving meaning from both words and the contexts in which they are uttered is referred to as pragmatics

11. Sentence meaning can be initiated by the following except

12. Utterance meaning depends largely on its

13. The Speech Acts Theory was propounded by

14. "The student pretended to sleep" presupposes that boy

15. Context has two aspects, linguistic and

16. 'The fare to the fair was fair'

The sentence above contains utterance ambiguity as a result of

17. Which of the following sentences is vague.

18. 18. "The country had no capital at the time' The statement above contains ..... ambiguity.

19. 'Musa saw a monkey driving to Takoradi.

The above sentence contains ambiguity resulting from

20. Which of the following sentences contains ambiguity resulting from careless punctuation?

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