Republic of the Philippines

GAPAN CITY COLLEGE

“Bridging Progress”
City Hall Compound, Bayanihan, Gapan City, Nueva Ecija

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

2nd Semester, A.Y. 2021 - 2022

Name: Jomel M Bendigurin
Section:AB ENGLISH 2A
Date: FEBRUARY 08 2023

1. Define meaning in 5 sentences. (5pts)

1. A word which is intended to be

2. Meaning is the idea that is represent by a word ,phrases ,etc

3. What's the listener understood

4. A word can have different meaning

5. Can be classified as denotation and connotation

2. Differentiate semantic meaning and speaker’s meaning. (5pts)

Semantic meaning is to explain how sentence are understood by native speaker. While, speaker meaning
a person who speaks and deliver a speech or formal address to an audience.

3. During our discussion, we have described Referent, Extension, Prototype and Stereotype
using a “bird” as an example. To further clarify reference types, come up with another example.
Explain. (10pts)
o Own example:
Steve's bag was badly damaged
 Referent: Steve's bag was badly damaged
Referent : Steve's and bag
 Extension:Steve's bag was badly damaged
Bag = All types of bag (handbag ,Tote bag, backpack and etc.)
 Prototype:Steve's bag was badly damaged
Bag is prototype= porche is typical to a backpack
 Stereotype: Steve's bag was badly damaged

Bag - is flexible material with an , opening at the top , used for carrying things.

4. Two linguistic expressions that refer to the same real-world entity are said to be coreferential.
Last meeting, we had “Jay Leno is the host of the Tonight Show.”, and “Ms. Kaye is our ELS
106 instructor.” as our examples. Give two more sentences that demonstrate coreference.
(10pts)

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 Republic of the Philippines
GAPAN CITY COLLEGE
“Bridging Progress”
City Hall Compound, Bayanihan, Gapan City, Nueva Ecija

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

2nd Semester, A.Y. 2021 - 2022

Neptune is most distant planet in our solar system

Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. is the Philippine president

5. A linguistic expression that refers to another linguistic expression is said to be anaphoric or an

anaphor. Last meeting, we had “The tsunami killed thousands of people. It was devastating”
and “Mary wants to play whoever thinks himself capable of beating her.” as our examples. Give
two more sentences that demonstrate anaphora. (10pts)
Relatives have a big dog but ours is too small
Jessica's dress is new but hers is old

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