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Semantics and Pragmatics EXAM Questions

The document lists 24 topics that will be covered on an exam in semantics and pragmatics. Some of the key topics included are: agent vs. goal, causatives, conceptual metaphor, conversational implicatures, conversational maxims, denotation vs. connotation, entailment, unaccusative vs. unergative clauses, explicature vs. implicature, linguistic vs. situational context, modality, presupposition, proposition, prototype theory, semantics vs. pragmatics, sense relations, situation types, and speech acts.

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Semantics and Pragmatics EXAM Questions

The document lists 24 topics that will be covered on an exam in semantics and pragmatics. Some of the key topics included are: agent vs. goal, causatives, conceptual metaphor, conversational implicatures, conversational maxims, denotation vs. connotation, entailment, unaccusative vs. unergative clauses, explicature vs. implicature, linguistic vs. situational context, modality, presupposition, proposition, prototype theory, semantics vs. pragmatics, sense relations, situation types, and speech acts.

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Semantics and pragmatics EXAM

1. Agent vs. goal. 2. Causatives. 3. Conceptual metaphor (structural, ontological, orientational). 4. Conversational implicatures. 5. Conversational maxims (quantity, quality, relation, manner). 6. Denotation vs. connotation. 7. Durativity vs. punctuality. 8. Entailment. 9. Unaccusative vs. unergative transitive clauses. 10. Explicature vs. implicature. 11. Expression/utterance/sentencje. 12. Irony. 13. Linguistic vs. situational context. 14. Metonymy. 15. Modality (deontic vs. epistemic). 16. Presupposition. 17. Proposition. 18. Prototype theory. 19. Semantics vs. pragmatics. 20. Senders/utterance/sentencje meaning.

21. Sense realtions (synonymy, antonymy, complementarity, conversness, the has-

relation, hyponymy, incompatibility) 22. Situation types (achievement, accomplishment, state, activity). 23. Speech acts (locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary; assertive, commissives, expressive, declaratives; informative, obligative, constitutive). 24. Telicty vs. atelicity.

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