Semantics: a coursebook, second edition
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finition and some which are probably not likely learned that way. PA RT T WO From reference . . . 92 93 3 . . . to sense UNIT 9 SENSE PROPERTIES AND STEREOTYPES Entry requirements ONE-, TWO-, and THREE-PLACE PREDICATES (Unit 5), EXTENSION and PROTOTYPE (Unit 8). If you feel unfamiliar with any of these ideas, review the appropriate unit. Otherwise, take the entry test below. Entry test (1) Which of the following are two-place predicates? Circle your answer. below, smother, sleep, come, annihilate, vanish, afraid (of) (2) Write the terms ‘referent’, ‘extension’, and ‘prototype’ in the appropriate boxes in the chart below: (Set of things that could be referred to using a particular predicate) (Thing referred to on a particular ................................................... occasion of utterance) (Thing typically referred to .................................................... using a particular predicate) .................................................... Feedback (1) below, smother, annihilate, afraid of Extension (2) Referent Prototype If you have answered both questions correctly, continue to the introduction. Otherwise, review the relevant unit. Introduction It is sometimes hard to distinguish a factual (or ‘ontological’) question from a semantic one. Practice (1) Have you ever been asked an apparently factual question about something (call it ‘X’), and found it necessary to say to your questioner ‘Well, it depends on what you mean by X’? Yes / No (2) Have you ever been involved in an argument with someone over an apparently factual matter, only to discover that some tải về 1.74 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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