Graduation Examination In Linguistics 7 - May 27, 2012

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Graduation Examination In Linguistics 7 - May 27, 2012

Duration: 150 minutes 

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Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks)
→The second speaker's response may implicature that Tom isn't a good student.

1. What semantic feature(s) do the words in each group share ?

(Những từ trong nhóm sau thuộc những tính năng ngữ nghĩa nào?)

a. ice cream, avocado, soup, corn, beef

→ [+food]

b. tigress, doe, girl, actress, debutante

→ [+female]

c. man, woman, mare, bull, ewe

→ [+animate]

d. poodle, Alsatian, Labrador, collie, dachshund

→ [+animate]; [+kinds of dog]

2. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that is an entailment of the sentence printed before it (→ is used to show one-way entailment and ↔ to show two way entailment).

a. Mama Bear is in front of Papa Bear.

↔ Papa Bear is behind Mama Bear.

b. Jim borrowed a bike from Ted.

→ Ted lent a bike to Jim.

c. My brother repaired my car.

→ My brother repaired my vehicle. ( "car" là hyponym của "vehicle")

d. Margaret is thin.

→ Margaret is not fat.

3. Identify the sentence as analytic (A), synthetic (S), or contradictory (C)

(Hãy nhận định câu này là phân tích (A), kết hợp (S), hoặc mâu thuẫn (C).

People who run move their bodies.

→ This is an analytic sentence.

4. Write down one IMPLICATURE that can be drawn from the second speaker’s response in the following exchange.

Professor 1: Is Tom a good student ?

Professor 2: He has beautiful handwriting and is neatly dressed.

5. Point out the deictic word(s) in the following utterance and state where the speaker is or is not.

(Hãy chỉ ra những từ chỉ định trong phát ngôn sau và định vị nơi người nói ở đâu hoặc không có)

“Mary, I’d like to invite you to come up the stage.’

→Deictic word is "come" word.
→The speaker is on the stage.

6. Identify one sincerity condition that must be satisfied for the following utterance to be appropriate.

(Hãy xác định 1 điều kiện thật mà phải phù hợp cho phát ngôn sau)

“Please open your mouth.”

→Illocutionary: requesting
→The speaker genuinely wants the hearer to open his/her mouth.

Part 2: WRITING (4 marks)

Write an essay of 250-300 words on ONE of the following topics

1. What are the effects of passive smoking ?

2. Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication, such as letters, emails, or telephone calls. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.