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se.The plement is ‘aboutghosts’.4. In TG, determiner is often written as Det.True.Chapter 5:1. Hyponymy is a relation of exclusion of meaning. False.2. The words ‘alive’ and ‘dead’ are relational opposites. False.3. The words ‘lead’(領導) and ‘lead’(鉛球) are homographs. True.4. The words ‘flat’ and ‘apartment’ are stylistic synonyms. False.5. The words ‘politician’ and ‘statesman’ are collocational synonyms. False.6. The words ‘buy’ and ‘purchase’ are dialectal synonyms. False.7. The words ‘shock’ and ‘surprise’ are semantically different synonyms. True.8. In the sense set freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, ‘junior’ and ‘senior’ are cohyponyms. True.9. The words ‘doctor’ and ‘patient’ are relational synonyms. True.10. ‘I have been to Beijing.’ entails ‘I have been to North China.’ True.11. ‘His friend is ing.’ presupposes ‘He has a friend.’ True.12. ‘Mary is single.’ is inconsistent with ‘Mary is married.’ True.13. ‘His dumb boy spoke good English.’ is a contradiction. True.Chapter 6:1. Pragmatics is a linguistic branch that developed in the 1890s. False.2. Course in General Linguistics was published in 1889. False.3. Context refers to the relation between lines or paragraphs of a text. False.4. If I said to you, ‘It’s very stuffy here.’, then my illocutionary act may be asking you to switch on the airconditioner. True.5. If Smith said to you in a supermarket, ‘I am thirsty now, but I have no money with me’, then his perlocutionary act is your buying him a cocacola. True.6. According to Austin, ‘He is a boy.’ is a constative. True.7. According to Austin, ‘I bet you sixpence it will be fine this evening.’ is a performative. True.8. ‘Open the door!’ is a directive. True.9. ‘The room is airconditioned.’ is an expressive. False.10. ‘We have never met before.’ is a representative. True.11. ‘I fire you!’ is a missive. False. … is a declaration.12. ‘I will return the book to you soon.’ is an expressive. False.13. ‘Do not say what you believe to be false’ is a maxim of relation. False.14. ‘Be brief’ belongs to the maxim of manner. True.15. ‘Make your contribution as informative as required (for the current purpose of the exchange).’ belongs to the maxim of quality. False.16. B’s reply violates the maxim of quality in the dialogue below: A: Where do you live? B: In South China Normal University. False. 17. B probably means that he doesn’t want to make any ment on the lecture, in the dialogue below: A: What do you think of the lecture? (The speech maker is ing) B: Do we have classes this evening? True.18. B probably means that it is impolite to ask about her age, in the dialogue below: A: How old are you? B: I am 80. True.19. B probably means that A should not laugh at him since they know each other, in the dialogue below: A: Are you a good student? B: Are you? True.Chapter 7:1. Sound changes tend to be systematic. True.2. The word ‘home’ was written as ‘hām’ in Ol