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Semantics - Meeting 1 Review

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  • The verb 'mean' in semiotics can be used to talk about reference and inference.
    True
  • Semantics is the study of meaning.
    True
  • Semiotics is not concerned with the study of signs.
    False
  • Semantics is normally taught before phonology and morphology.
    False
  • According to Saussure, a sign must have both a signifier and signified.
    True
  • The semiotic triangle was proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure.
    False
  • The following image is the signifier.
    True
  • Semantics is completely unrelated to semiotics.
    False
  • Semantics and pragmatics talk about completely different things.
    False
  • The semiotic triangle consists of representamen, interpretant, and object.
    True
  • Signified refers to the material aspects such as sound or image.
    False
  • Pragmatics does not take the speaker's meaning into consideration.
    False