NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA,
PLOT 91, CADASTRAL ZONE, JABI, ABUJA
FACULTY OF ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018 EXAMINATION
COURSE CODE: ENG331
COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS
TIME ALLOWED: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTION:Answer Any 3 Questions(Your correct use of language elements will earn you additional 3 marks for each question attempted.)
1. List (4 marks) and discuss four fields of academic inquiry related to the study of semantics (16 marks). (20 marks)
2. (a) Distinguish between thematic and conceptual meaning.(10 marks)
(b)List (4 marks) each type of associative meaning that you know and give two examples for each.(6 marks)
3. Give a brief discussion on each of these, with an example to demonstrate each:
(a)synonymy (4 marks)
(b)antonymy (4 marks)
(c) hyponymy (4 marks)
(d) homonymy (4 marks)
(e) polysemy (4 marks) (20 marks)
4. (a) State clearly what conjunction and disjunction are used for in semantic logic. (10 marks)
(b) Identify five types of connectives used in semantic logic. (10 marks)
5. With clear examples, discuss each of these structural elements and how their semantic structure is revealed in use in literary works:
(a) Rhetorical question (4 marks)
(b) Exclamation (4 marks)
(c) Inversion (4 marks)
(d) Climax (4 marks)
(e) Anticlimax (4 marks)
(20 marks)
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