Semantics
1. What is semantics?
Ans: Semantics is the study of meaning without context.
2. What does semantics deal with?
Ans: Semantics focuses on the study of meaning which is important to understand a sentence.
3. How does semantics differ from pragmatics?
Ans: Semantics deals with the literal meaning of words or phrases whereas pragmatics deals with the contextual meanings of them.
4. What is synonym?
Ans: A synonym is a word or phrase that means nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.
5. What is antonym?
Ans: An antonym is a word that is the opposite meaning of another. (e.g., bad and good).
6. What is homonym?
Ans: Homonym is one of a group of words that share the same pronunciation or the same spelling but have different meanings.
7. What is homophone?
Ans: Homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, origins, or spelling.
8. What is hyponymy?
Ans: Hyponymy is the relationship between a specific word and a more general term of the word, between a hyponym and its hypernym.
9. What do you mean by Eponym?
Ans: An eponym is a person, place, or thing after whom or after which something is named, or believed to be named.
10. What is conceptual meaning?
Ans: Conceptual meaning is the literal or core sense of a word derived from definition given in dictionaries and the appearance of this lexical item.
11. What is connotation?
Ans: Connotation is the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning.
12. What is denotation?
Ans: Denotation is the literal meaning of a word or the "dictionary definition" of a word.
13. When does ambiguity occur in a language?
Ans: Ambiguity occurs in a language when a word or the structure of a sentence gives a variety of meanings.
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