TUGAS 1 SASTRA INGGRIS SEMESTER 8

TUGAS 1 SASTRA INGGRIS UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA

Soal 1

a. What is the difference between lexical and compositional semantics?

b. Determine whether the underlined words of the following text belong to lexical semantics or compositional semantics.

Face masks have long been used in health care, often for the simple reason that they protect doctors and nurses from splashes of body fluids during procedures but also for the purpose of blocking the transmission of respiratory droplets. Thanks to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, however, face masks have become a critical form of personal protection not just for doctors, nurses, and patients but for ordinary people out for a walk or off to pick up groceries. (https://www.britannica.com/story/how-do-face-masks-control-the-spread-of-disease)

 

Soal 2

a. What is the difference between reference and sense meanings?

b. Determine whether the underlined words of the following text have a reference meaning or sense meaning.

 

The classic conception of comedy, which began with Aristotle in ancient Greece of the 4th century BCE and persists through the present, holds that it is primarily concerned with humans as social beings, rather than as private persons and that its function is frankly corrective. The comic artist’s purpose is to hold a mirror up to society to reflect its follies and vices, in the hope that they will, as a result, be mended. The 20th-century French philosopher Henri Bergson shared this view of the corrective purpose of laughter; specifically, he felt, laughter is intended to bring the comic character back into conformity with his society, whose logic and conventions he abandons when “he slackens in the attention that is due to life.” (https://www.britannica.com/art/comedy)

Soal 3

a. What is a presupposition?

b. Mention what is presupposed by each of the following sentences.

i. Is Mike playing that loud music?

ii. What I want for my birthday is a new cell phone.

iii. Andy didn’t go to work today.

iv. Agnes stopped playing the piano several years ago.

v. When did Andrew go back to school?

 

Soal 4.

a. What is the difference between denotation and connotation?

b. Find the denotative meaning of the words politician and statesman, then explain how they differ in connotation?