Exam 3: Language and Definitions

When your father says to you, "I am really sick of coming home to such a mess!" the best description of his sentence is:

Matching: -Pollsters influence the responses they receive unless they avoid ________ language.

"I think that good food is the best thing in the world." "Well, I think that it is more important to eat organic produce than anything else." This exchange is:

Directive discourse in language is used to express emotion.

"The word home means 'that place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.'" This definition is best described as a:

A teacher says that amphibian means "frogs, newts, and salamanders." Is she giving the students a definition?

Extension refers to the collection of objects to which a term applies.

Matching: -When a pastor says to a couple, "I now pronounce you man and wife," he/she is using ________ language.

Matching: -"Man is the only rational animal." In this definition by genus and difference, "rational" refers to ________.

A child points at her family dog and says "doggie" to her mother.This is an:

Matching: -Definitions should not be ________, because then the definition will only explain the term to those who already understand it

Which type of definition is found in the dictionary?

"Hey, Jim! You about done there? " When Jim's carpool partner says this to him, it is an example of:

If you are told that pig means "swine," what kind of definition have you been given?

Love letters are, generally, good examples of the performative function of language.

Matching: -We use ________ when we want to disguise or underplay the emotive meaning of words.

What is the relationship between the definiendum and the definiens?

Which is most likely an expressive use of language?

In attempting to motivate someone, a speaker should consider beliefs and attitudes alike, since arguments almost always involve both of these things.

Ostensive definitions avoid some of the limitations of extensional definitions.