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Questions for discussion
1. What does semantics deal with? What is the sphere of pragmatics?
2. What is presupposition? What types of presupposition are identified?
3. What is implication? What makes it different from inference?
Practice Assignment
Analyze the semantic structure of the following sentences (explicit and implicit
meanings):
1. His brother-in-law was anathema to him. (S. Sheldon)
2. None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window. (J.
Rowling)
3. He didn’t seem at all upset at being almost knocked to the ground. (J.
Rowling)
4. Mr. Dursley tried to act normally. (J. Rowling)
5. He pawned a cigarette-case and a pair of field-glasses and managed to live—
to eat, sleep, and smoke. (F. S. Fitzgerald)
6. With sickening truth it occurred to him that his facility for meeting people
was limited. (F. S. Fitzgerald)
7. He was glad he did not know who lived here. (F. S. Fitzgerald)
8. She has sensed a shift in the weather. (M. Ondaatje)
9. He told me that Isabel had broken her engagement to Larry. (W. S.
Maugham)
10. She saw that he had been waiting impatiently. (W. S. Maugham)
11. Yes, he seems to have been taken suddenly ill at the office… (A. Christie)
12. She never wanted to see that room again. (M. Mitchell)
13. We have forgotten to inform Mr Poirot of that. (A. Christie)
14. Paul suppressed a shiver, and forced himself to ask the question uppermost
in his mind. (A. Cronin)
15. He made a supreme effort to break it. (J. Galsworthy)
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