Midterm Assignment

2022/2023
Semantics
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Marwa Ahmad Aljafar
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Donya Faisal Alali
2172131925
Deema Faiz Almutairi
2182160300

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 (The true deceiver)

The true deceiver is a thriller novel by Tove Jansson. Chapter one talks about the first
protagonist and the narrator Katri Kling that lives with her brother mats and a nameless dog.
She take care of her brother after their father’s death, and all she ever wanted is to fulfill her
brother’s dreams.

Jansson, Tove. The True Deceiver. Translated by Thomas Teal, NYRB Classics, 2009.

1- An example of a constant reference.

- They were forbidden to throw snowballs at Katri Kling’s window, but did it anyway.
2- An example of a variable reference established via the use of person’s deictic
( possessive pronouns).
- After her mother died, katri took over helping in the shop, where she also did the
accounts.
3- An example of a one place predicate.
- They say that money smells; it’s not true.
4- An example of two place predicate.
- I respect the mystery of dogs, the secret natural wildness that big dogs hold on to, But
I don’t trust them.
5- An example of a noun predicate.
- The best builders were the Liljeberg brothers.
6- An example of an adjective predicate.
- Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell
how pitiful we are.
7- An example of Synonymy + Antonomy.
The village lay soundless under untouched snow until the children were let out and
dug tunnels and caves and shrieked and were left to themselves.
- The word shrieked
- Synonymy: scream, shout, yel.
- Antonomy: whisper, mutter.

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 8- An example of hyponomy /hyperonomy.

- Hyperonomy: Animal Season. Colour

  
- Hyponymy: Dog Winter/Summer yellow

9- An example of performative and specify whether it is an explicit or implicit.

- So much money that I won’t need to think about money anymore. And I’ll repay it,
later. (implicit)
10- An example of constative.
- Mostly I think about money.
11- An example of commissive and specify whether it is direct or indirect.
- Mats and I will live there too. (indirect)
12- An example of a directive and specify whether it is direct or indirect.
- How long can What was once a wild animal deny its wildness? ( indirect)
warning/asking
13- Select a speech act and specify the sentence type of the locution then specify whether
its illocution is accordingly direct or indirect.
- First of all, mats will get his boat, a big, seaworthy boat with a cabin and and inboard
motor, the best ever built in this otherwise miserable village.
Sentence type: declarative.
Speech act: commissive.
Illocutionary act : promising / indirect.