Graduation Examination in Linguistics 26 - January, 2002 at USSH

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Graduation Examination in Linguistics 26 - January, 2002 at USSH

Duration: 150 minutes 

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Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks) 

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2.

a)

(i)  A: We're going to the movies.

     B: I've got an exam tomorrow.

→  B may implicature that B is not going to the movies.

(ii) A: I hear you're always late with the rent.

     B: Well, sometimes I am.

→B may implicature that B is not always late with the rent.

b)

(i) A: How are you doing?

    B: I'm dead.

→Hyperbole. It's impossible for someone to be dead if someone asks how you are, which means B is very tired.

(ii) We'll just have to go our separate ways. (P/S: thành ngữ)

→Metaphor. They will have to stop living/working together.

3.

a) Did you put your jacket on?

b) You look awful.

c) I'll sit in the front row.

d) It's much cooler in Dalat.