Vocabulary II

Question 1

ambiguity

Answer 1

possibility of two or more meanings

Question 2

back translation

Answer 2

is the process of translating a document that has already been translated into a foreign language back to the original language

Question 3

connotation

Answer 3

what is suggested on addition to the literal meaning of a word

Question 4

denotation

Answer 4

literal meaning of a word

Question 5

empiricism

Answer 5

the view that all ideas are abstractions formed by compounding (combining, recombining) what is experienced (observed, immediately given in sensation)

Question 6

euphemism

Answer 6

a figure of speech in which a delicate word or expression is substituted for one which is offensive to good manners or delicate ears

Question 7

linguistic determination

Answer 7

the idea that language shapes thought

Question 8

phenomenalism

Answer 8

only phenomena (sense data) can be known as they appear to our consciousness.

Question 9

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Answer 9

postulates a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it