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ASSIGNMENT No. 1
(Reading Passages 1–6)
Q.3 How would you differentiate between Speaker meaning and Sentence meaning? (10)
Q.8 What is different between semantics as studied by linguists and semantics studied
by philosopher and logicians? (15)
Q.9 What do you understand by the terms Sense and Reference? (10)
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ASSIGNMENT No. 2
(Reading Passages 7–12) Total Marks: 100
Q.3 How would you demonstrate with at least five examples that: (25)
‘Every expression that has meaning has sense, but not very expression has
reference’.
Q.4 Refer to the tutorial group activity given at the end of the reading passage 4 in the
guide. (25)
‘Construct a list of lexemes in the field CLASSROOM. Construct that list to form a
tree diagram’.
ASSIGNMENT No. 3
(Reading Passages 13–18) Total Marks: 100
Q.1 Read the following and point out the Locutionary, Illocutionary and
Perlocutionary acts involved: (20)
‘John and Harry are walking across a field. Harry sees a large dong bounding
towards them, growing and showing its teeth. He shouts ‘Quick! Up that free!’
Harry sees what is about to happen, they both shin up the free’.
Q.5 What do these terms mean? Illustrate your answer with examples: (20)
Conversational turns
Conversation maneuvers
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ASSIGNMENT No. 4
This assignment is more of a project or research work. You have to write a formal report
and give a presentation in your tutorial session.
40 marks will be given on the written report. Please bear in mind that your written
assignment / report must be written following conventions of formal writing, Read
the booklet “How to Write formal Reports and give Presentations:
A Guide for TEFL students” carefully.
60 marks will be given for your oral presentation. We will once again advise you to
be prepared and confident.
Now decide on the conversation you are going to analyse. The conversation or talk
can occur in a store with a salesperson, in the doctor’s office; among family
members or friends; in political and workplace meetings; and on the telephone,
basically choose a day-to-day life interaction.
Listen to the conversation or talk, transcribe and analyse it on the lines as who the
people are, their relationships, and the content of their conversation and develop an
analysis of the conversation as a communicative event.