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Graduation Examination in Linguistics 11 - ? at USSH
Duration: 150 minutes
Destroy Everything You Touch © Orrihenrisson
Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks)
1.
2.
3.
a) love/hate
→Gradable antonymy
b) supper/breakfast
→Incompatibility
c) ravage/destroy
→Synonymy
d) dissolve (salt dissolves in water)/dissolve (the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991)
→Polysymy
4.
a) He pretended that he had understood what she meant.
→He didn't understand what she meant.
b) The Brazilian team beat the French team again.
→The Brazilian team beat the French team before.
c) Where did you look for the keys?
→The speaker assumes that the hearer already knows what "keys" it was.
→The hearer looked the keys somewhere.
d) Don't break Tom's glass.
→Tom has a glass.
→The speaker assumes that the hearer already knows who "Tom" is.
5.
a) Their next strategy is to expand their business to less developed countries.
→Euphemism. Less developed countries is equivalent to poor countries.
b) Room 518 requested more soap.
→Metonymy. Room 518 stands for the guests staying in room 518.
6.
4.
a) He pretended that he had understood what she meant.
→He didn't understand what she meant.
b) The Brazilian team beat the French team again.
→The Brazilian team beat the French team before.
c) Where did you look for the keys?
→The speaker assumes that the hearer already knows what "keys" it was.
→The hearer looked the keys somewhere.
d) Don't break Tom's glass.
→Tom has a glass.
→The speaker assumes that the hearer already knows who "Tom" is.
5.
a) Their next strategy is to expand their business to less developed countries.
→Euphemism. Less developed countries is equivalent to poor countries.
b) Room 518 requested more soap.
→Metonymy. Room 518 stands for the guests staying in room 518.
6.
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