You should write in the left hand column __________. a) first ...

[roselinechinyere27m]

You should write in the left hand column __________.
 
  a) first
  b) a few days after your reading or lecture
  c) only while you are studying for a test
  d) soon after your reading or lecture

Question 2

List the reasons why the relationship between language and meaning is complicated.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[josephsuarez]

Answer to Question 1

d)

Answer to Question 2

The relationship between language and meaning is complicated because:
 The meaning of words is in people, not in the words themselves.
 Words have two levels of meaning: denotation and connotation.
 Meaning may vary depending on its syntactic context, or the position of a word in a sentence and
the other words around it.
 The language of any speech community will change over time. Language changes in many ways,
including the creation of new words, the abandonment of old words, changes in word meanings in
segments of society, and the influx of words from the mixing of cultures.
 As a society absorbs immigrants who speak different languages and becomes more multicultural,
the language of the dominant group gradually absorbs some words from the languages of the
immigrants.