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Task 1: T or F? Correct the false
1. The mind-world connection says that using and understanding language is a
mental activity and this activity is what meaningful language exists for.
2. Connotation arises when words become associated with certain
characteristics of the items to which they refer to.
3. Sentence meaning is what a speaker means when he makes an utterance in a
certain situation.
4. Homonym refers to a situation where different words happen accidentally to
have the same forms, either phonetic forms or graphic forms.
5. Sense relations may be of three types: substitutional, combinational and
collocational.
6. The relation of co-hyponym is often defines in terms of inclusion.
7. Meronymy and hyponymy are similar in hierarchical relationship.
8. The terms marking or markedness is informal as it is based on the presence
or absence of some particular element of form.
9. Words can be grouped either thematically or ideographically.
10. A necessarily true sentence is one whose truth value might have been, or
might be, different in other circumstances.
Task 2: Fill into the blank with the best word
A semantic field is a system of networks held together by differences, (1)________
and values. The value of a word is determined by defining it in relation to the value
of neighbouring or (2) ________ words.
Predication is the way that individual (3)________ - carry out, take on, or are
linked to- properties,(4) ______, attributes or states.
Presupposition is the (5)_______ the speaker makes about what the hearer is likely
to (6)______ without challenge.
(7)________ is an act of using a linguistic expression to enable the (8)______ to
identify something or somebody.
In English, modality is commonly (9)______ by modal verbs like may, might,can