Nonliteral Meaning - Assignment 1

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Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

  1. Look over the entire online syllabus (http://educ.jmu.edu/~cotesa/eng302f16.html also available through Canvas). Then answer the following questions:
    1. Which epigraph in the group of five listed below our tentative class schedule do you find most interesting and why?
    2. What labelling convention is our text adopting for a concept/idea about the world and what labelling convention is it adopting for the what we think of as a particular linguistic word-entity ?
    3. Consider the word home:
      1. What do you know about it as a word?
      2. What do you know about the concept/idea 'home'?
      3. Name three synonyms for this word.
      4. What is an example of a referent for this word?

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