SEMANTICS
What does semantics study?
The study of meaning in language.
What is ambiguity?
When a word, phrase, or sentence has more than one possible meaning or interpretation.
What does pragmatics study?
The study of meaning in context.
What is entailment?
If one sentence is true, another sentence must also be true.
What type of ambiguity is in: “I saw the man with a telescope”?
Structural ambiguity.
What could “It’s cold here” mean besides the literal meaning?
It could be a request to close the window or turn on the heating.
What is the principle of compositionality?
The meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of its parts and how they are combined.
What is the difference between lexical and structural ambiguity?
Lexical ambiguity comes from a word having different meanings; structural ambiguity comes from different possible sentence structures/interpretations.
What is implicature?
Meaning that a speaker suggests without saying it directly.