Graduation Examination in Linguistics 3 - ? at USSH

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Graduation Examination in Linguistics 3 - ? at USSH
Duration: 150 minutes

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Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks) 

1.
2.
a) The earth revolves around the sun.
→Synthetic
b) The man he killed is now living in Paris.
→Contradictory
c) Bachelors are lonely men. 
→Synthetic
d) Two halves make up a whole. 
→Analytic

3.
a) pass/fail
→Binary antonymy
b) fake/counterfeit
→Hyponymy
c) red/crimson - (đỏ/đỏ thẫm)
→Synonymy
d) greater than/smaller than
→Relational antonymy

4.
a)Jack proved to be a very efficient worker.
→The speaker assumes that the hearer already knows who "Jack" is.
b) Why didn't you call the police?
→You didn't call the police
c) He pretended to be interested in the project.
→He wasn't interested in the project.
d) You shouldn't have been rude to her.
→You were rude to her.

5.
a) The neighbors agreed to a truce over their barbeque dispute.
→Metaphor. 
→The barbeque is compared to a war, which means the neighbors agreed to stop their barbeque dispute for a short time..
b) The price of the meal is set at twenty pounds per head.
→Synecdoche. 
→Head stands for person. 

6. 
"It's going to rain soon."

Situation one:
A: "What;s the weather like?'
B: "It's going to rain soon."
B directly answers A's question by providing a piece of information.
This is a representative.

Situation two:
A: "It's going to rain soon."
B: "Ok. I will not go out."
A indirectly orders B not to go out.
This is a directive.