2015-08-21
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Interpret the “deep meaning” of the following sentences. In what situations can they be used?
| Sentences | Deep meaning | Situations |
| 1. Hold on! | ||
| 2. Last orders! | ||
| 3. Thank you for not bringing food | ||
| 4. Bring a bottle | ||
| 5. Talk to you soon | ||
| 6. Keep your fingers crossed! | ||
| 7. Many happy returns! | ||
| 8. And for your starter? | ||
| 9. Can I help you? | ||
| 10. Sorry for the work in progress | ||
| 11. Answer the door! |
Speech and thought are a single process in the course of producing an utterance. Intended meaning is mapped with the help of words in the speaker’s or writer’s mind. this preliminary mapping is organised with the help of syntactical means and is given a finishing touch with morphology to encode the function and relationship of words in the sentence and phonology to represent the utterance with speech sounds or graphemes
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