(3) The contextualist view held that meaning should be studied in terms of situation, use, context –– elements closely linked with language behaviour. The representative of this approach was J.R. Firth, famous British linguist.
    (4) Behaviorists attempted to define the meaning of a language form as the “situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer.” This theory, somewhat close to contextualism, is linked with psychological interest.
2. What are the major types of synonyms in English?
答：   The major types of synonyms are dialectal synonyms, stylistic synonyms, emotive or evaluative synonyms, collocational synonyms, and semantically different synonyms.
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3. Explain with examples “homonymy”, “polysemy”, and “hyponymy”.
答：(1) Homonymy refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form, i.e., different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.
      When two words are identical in sound, they are homophones.
      When two words are identical in spelling, they are homographs.
When two words are identical in both sound and spelling, they are complete homonyms
(2) While different words may have the same or similar meaning, the same one word may have more than one meaning. This is what we call polysemy, and such a word is called a polysemic word. There are many polysemic words in English, The fact is the more commonly used a word is, the more likely it has acquired more than one meaning.
(3) Hyponymy refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word. The word which is more general in meaning is called the superordinate, and the more specific words are called its hyponyms. Hyponyms of the same superordinate are co-hyponyms to each other. Hyponymy is a relation of inclusion; in terms of meaning, the superordinate includes all its hyponyms.
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4. How can words opposite in meaning be classified? To which category does each of the following pairs of antonyms belong?
north/south   vacant/occupied   literate/illiterate  above/below
doctor/patient  wide/narrow  poor/rich  father/daughter
答：They can be gradable antonyms, complementary antonyms and relational opposite
    Gradable antonyms: literate/illiterate   wide /narrow   poor/rich
    Complementary antonyms: vacant/occupied
    Relational opposite: north/south, doctor/patient, father/daughter, above/below
5. Identify the relations between the following pairs of sentences:
    Tom's wife is pregnant.        My sister will soon be divorced'
    Tom has a wife.              My sister is a married woman.
    He likes seafood,             They are going to have another baby.
He likes crabs.               They have a child.
答： “Tom's wife is pregnant” presupposes “Tom has a wife.”
     “My sister will soon be divorced” presupposes “My sister is a married woman.”
     “He likes seafood” is entailed by “He likes crabs.”
     “They are going to have another baby” presupposes “They have a child.”
6. In what way is componential analysis similar to the analysis of phonemes into distinctive features?
答：  They both base on the belief that the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components.
7. What is grammaticality? What might make a grammatically meaningful sentence semantically meaningless?
答：  Grammaticality refers to the grammatical well-formedness of a sentence. The violation of the selectional restrictions, i.e., constrains on what lexical items can go with what others, might make a grammatically meaningless.
8. Try to analyze the following sentences in terms of predication analysis:
     The man sells ice-cream.         Is the baby sleeping?
     It is snowing.                  The tree grows well.
答：The man sells ice-cream.
      MAN, ICE-CREAM (SELL)