Graduation Examination in Linguistics 15 - March 30, 2009 at USSH

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Graduation Examination in Linguistics 15 - March 30, 2009 at USSH

Duration: 150 minutes 

It was raining © Ashfaq ayon

Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks) 

1.
2.
a) What was she talking about when you arrived there?
→She was talking about something when you arrived there.
→You arrived there.
b) 
Dialogue 1:
A: "What do you think about her essay?"
B: "The second draft wasn't better.'
→Her essay is not good.

Dialogue 2:
A: "Do you expect a lot of rain this month?'
B: "It hardly ever rains in March"a
→B doesn't think that it will rain in March.

3.
a) Ask yourself whether the connections of ideas in your essay are logically watertight.
(Hãy hỏi chính mình liệu sự kết nối ý tưởng trong bài luận của bạn có chặt chẽ một cách hợp lý chưa.)
→Metaphor.

b) Linguists are trying to weed out recent non-standard uses.
→Metaphor.  Non-standard uses are compared to weed, which means non-standard uses need to be eliminated.

4. 
"The air-conditioner is not working today."

Situation one:
A: “Why is it too hot?”
B: “The air-conditioner is not working today.”
→B directly answers A’s question.
→This is a representative.

Situation two:
A: “The air-conditioner is not working to day.”
B: “Ok. I will repair it as soon as possible.”
→A indirectly requests B to repair the air-conditioner.
→This is a directive.