Firth attempted to define the meaning of linguistic form as the “situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer.”
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- _____ reference is a kind of definite specific reference that depends solely on the common knowledge shared by speaker and hearer or on a specific situation in which the reference is made clear.
- In The Principles of Language Study (1921), Palmer put forward nine fundamental principles of good language teaching and learning, of which ______ was the first and most important. A: reinforcement and response B: habit-formation C: form and meaning D: meaning and situation
- Mathesius distinguishes theme from rheme, and puts forward that theme is and . A: the ground on which the speaker and the hearer meet B: the very information that is to be imparted to the hearer C: the point of departure in a sentence D: the goal of discourse
- ( ) is Shelley's bestknown lyric in which he calls forth the overthrowing of the old social system and bringing destruction to it.
- Which of the following is not true？ （ ）。 A: Sense is abstract and decontextualized. B: Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. C: Sense is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form. D: Sense is not the meaning complied in dictionary.