AMBIGUITY
what does ambiguity refers in Semantic?
It refers when a word or sentence can be understood or interpreted in more than one way.
Mention 3 features of Uterrances
Explain what is a reference and referent:
Reference Is the relation of the word with the being (referent) in the outside real world.
What is meant by “meaning” in linguistic study?
“Meaning” in linguistics is the core essence studied in semantics, involving interpretation within semantic and syntactic environments.
what type of ambiguity are there in semantic?
There are two:
1) Lexical ambiguity
2) Sentence ambiguity
How is divided the propositions in linguistic?
what are the types of referent in linguistic?
constant, changeable and and multiple.
The literal, dictionary definition of a word is called its________
conceptual or denotative meaning
Explain: What is a lexical and sentence ambiguity?
Lexical ambiguity occurs when a word has multiple meanings, while sentence ambiguity occurs when a sentence can be interpreted in multiple ways.
Define Uterrance, sentence and proposition:
An utterance is any stretch of talk, by one person, before and after which there is silence on the part of that person.
A sentence is a string of words
A proposition is an idea in the mind.
Sense is the relationship between a language expression and other language expressions in the same language.
What are the level of meanings in Semantic?
Word´s meaning
sentences´s meaning
Speaker´s meaning
Hearer´s meaning
Identify the ambiguous word in the following sentence and list its possible meanings: “He put the bat in the box.”
The ambiguous word is “bat”. It can mean:
A flying mammal (animal)
A piece of sports equipment used in baseball or cricket
What distinguishes an utterance from a sentence in linguistics?
An utterance is any stretch of spoken or written language produced in a specific context; it’s an actual event happening in time and space, while a sentence is a grammatical unit existing in abstract form and can be repeated by many speakers
In the sentence “That bird looks sick,” what is the referent?
The referent is the particular bird being pointed at or discussed in the context; it’s the physical bird seen by the speaker and listener.
The meaning that expresses feelings and attitudes is _______.
affective meaning
What is the possible meaning of the next sentence: “The old men and women stayed at home.”
(The old men) and (women)] stayed at home — old men and all women.
[The old (men and women)] stayed at home — both old men and old women only
"Hello" is an example of an utterance that does not constitute a sentence. Explain why.
“Hello!” is an utterance and can be a complete communicative act, but it is not a full sentence in the grammatical sense (lacking a subject and predicate).
The meaning of “the capital of France” involves both sense (a description) and reference (the city). What city is the referent?
Paris
Speaker's meaning is the meaning that the speaker intends to convey by an utterance and Hearer's meaning is the meaning that the hearer actually understands from an utterance.