FINAL TEST MODULE 1 VARIANT III COGNITIVE SEMANTICS
1.
Cognitive semanticists: 1. are primarily concerned with studying linguistic meaning for its own sake;
2. want to reveal the nature of human conceptual system.
2.
1. Cognitive semanticists 1. rely on language to help them understand how the conceptual system
works;
2. Cognitive grammarians 2. rely on what is known about the conceptual system to help them
understand how language works.
3.
The methodology of seeking converging evidence is peculiar to: 1. Cognitive Grammar;
2. Cognitive Semantics.
4.
Tick the correct answers.
Truth conditional semantics: 1. assumes an encyclopedic model of linguistic meaning rather than a
dictionary model of meaning;
2. assumes a dictionary model of linguistic meaning rather than an
encyclopedic model;
3. considers linguistic meaning as separate from world knowledge;
4. can be modeled according to precise and formally stated
definitions.
5.
In assuming a prototype model of word meaning cognitive semanticists
1. does not reject the idea that word meaning can be modeled by strict definitions;
2. reject the idea that word meaning ca be modeled by strict definitions.
6.
Embodied cognition thesis holds that 1. the nature of conceptual organization arises from bodily
experience;
2. the nature of conceptual organization arises from
language.
7.
Construal: 1. a social psychological term that refers to the way in which people
perceive, comprehend and interpret the world round them.
2. a social psychological term that refers to the way in which people
perceive but not comprehend and interpret the world round them.
8.
According to cognitive semanticists are active and passive structures meaningful?
1. No 2. Yes.
9.
Cognitive Semantics rejects: 1. an encyclopedic view of meaning;
2. the definitional or dictionary view of word meaning.
10.
Lakoff proposed that lexical units like words should be treated as conceptual categories, organized
with respect to an ICM or prototype. According to this point of view, polysemy arises because:
1.
words are linked to a network of lexical concepts rather than to a single such concepts;
2. words are linked to a single lexical concepts rather than to a network of lexical concepts.
11.
Is the structural meaning the same as the schematic meaning?
1. Yes 2. No
12 . Can we describe image schemas using words and pictures?
1. No 2. Yes
13.
Tick the correct answers. Image schemas: 1. derive from sensory experience;
2. derive from encyclopedic knowledge;
3.are summaries all the meanings of a polysemantic word;
4. are summaries of perceptual states;
5. are recorded in meaning.
14.
Abstract thought has bodily basis:
1. Yes 2. No.
15 . Tick the correct answers. Salient examples like prototypes in general:
1. provide cognitive reference point;
2. structure a category metonymically;
3. influence the decision we make.
16.
Cognitive approaches to grammar: 1. are primarily concerned with studying language

system itself;
2. want to reveal the nature of human conceptual system.
17.
Which one has to be delineated first? 1. cognitive model of grammar;
2. a model of meaning (Cognitive Semantics).
18.
1. Construal 1. when patterns of language suggest corresponding patterns in conceptual
structure;
2.Converging evidence 2. a social psychological term that refers to the way in which people
perceive, comprehend and interpret the world round them.
19.
1. Semantic meaning relates 1. to the meaning “packed” inside words, regardless of their context
of use;
2. Pragmatic meaning relates 2. to how speakers make use of the contextual information to retrieve
speaker meaning by constructed inferences and so on.
20.
Cognitive Linguists adopt: 1. a compositional view of sentence meaning;
2. a constructional view of sentence meaning.
21.
In the cognitive model the image schematic concept represents one of the ways,
1. in which meaningful concepts give rise to body experiences;
2. in which body experiences give rise to the meaningful concepts.
22.
The second principle, that is “Semantic structure is conceptual structure” asserts that
1. language refers to concepts in the mind of the speaker rather than to objects in the external world;
2. language refers to objects in the external world rather than to the concepts in the mind of the
speaker.
23.
Cognitive Semantics: 1. seeks to provide a unified account of lexical and grammatical organization;
2. view lexical and grammatical organization as distinct subsystems.
24.
Frames are: 1. detailed knowledge structures or schemas emerging from word meaning;
2. detailed knowledge structures or schemas emerging from everyday experiences.
25.
Image schemas are concepts arising from: 1. embodied experience;
2. linguistic meaning of the word.
26. Image Schemas derive from: 1. language and connotational meaning;
2. sensory and perceptual experiences.
27 . Image schematic concepts are represented in the mind in terms of
1. holistic sensory experience;
2. the memory of a physical experience.
28.
Image schemas: 1. are specific to a particular sense;
2. are not specific to a particular sense.
29 . 1.Conceptual structuring system: 1. provides the structure of a given scene;
2. Content system 2. provides the majority of rich substantive details.
30 . In the composite prototypes of categories the central model determines the possibilities of extension.
1. No 2. Yes.