SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SBA.
ENGLISH 2014.
SEMANTICS: ASSIGNED BY SIR AAMIR SAEED.
SHAHIDA BALOCH (21).
MCQS/FILL IN THE BLANKS.
1. Semantics is scientific study of meanings of words.
2. Meaning of words may be lexical or sentential.
3. Meaning in sentence is different from dictionary.
4. Similar meanings are known as synonyms.
5. Synonymy is basic principle of lexicography.
6. Good is synonymy of nice.
7. Antonyms give opposite meaning.
8. Evil is antonym of good.
9. Words of same class are called Hyponymy.
10. Red and blue belongs to same class.
11. Homonymy is words with same pronunciation.
12. Some is homonymy of sum.
13. Head is a part of body.
14. Sema is a Greek word.
15. Names are considered as referents.
16. Refer ends are things.
17. Diachronic refers to historical.
18. Expressions, words, and phrases denote linguistic levels.
19. Meaning treat as essence of language in Vedas.
20. According to Hindu scholars, relationship of words and meaning is eternal.
21. Meaning is soul of language.
22. There is necessity of learning words.
23. Words are tools.
24. Bloomfield defined meaning as “The situations in which speaker utters it and
response it calls forth in hearer’’.
25. Relationship between name and things represented by Semiotic triangle.
26. Plato and Socrates were old philosophers.
27. Thoughts, concepts and sense come in meaning of a word.
28. Form represents name and symbols.
29. Analytical approach is also known as referential approach.
30. Traditional approach gave birth to analytical approach.
31. Speech word relationship was given by Saussure.
32. Saussure used sound and thought.
33. Sound is signifier.
34. Thought is signified.
35. Thing is significant.
36. The word symbolize shows a thought or reference.
37. The sound ‘DOG’’ refers to four legged domestic animal.
38. The symbol is Phonetic shape of word.
39. Meaning is a reciprocal and reversible relation between name and sense.
40. Referent is non linguistic feature of events.
41. Referential theories of meaning are inspired by old metaphysics.
42. Old metaphysics refers to body and soul.
43. Words are not only associated with situations but also with other words.
44. Semantics had gained from 3 disciplines.
45. Philosophy, anthropology and psychology are concerned with our languages.
46. Relationship between psychology and linguistics had given rise to
psycholinguistics.
47. The meaning of word can be understood by its range of occurrence.
48. Lexical environment comes in distributional approach.
49. Paradigmatic relations show sets of words.
50. Operational approach means contextual or functional.
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