The lecture on January, 18 dealt with lexical and sentence semantics, semantic components and semantic relations.

Tasks

1. Find examples of at least 3 appraisive expressions in German and English
2. What would be a prototypical
• car
• dog
3. Make your own definition for "casting show"
4. Describe the meaning of
• The Scissor Sisters sing
• Today the Scissor Sisters sing

1. English:
   • ... the greatest event...
   • absolutely boring
   • beautiful
   German:
   • super
   • total gut
   • langweilig
   
   
2. prototypical car: depends on the country from where you are or for people from which country you have to find this prototype; e.g. in Germany/for Germans you probably would name VW or Mercedes
   prototypical dog: e.g. a shepherd


3. A "casting show" is a show which searches for talented singers/actors/dancers/...


4. • The Scissor Sisters sing: general statement
   • Today the Scissor Sisters sing: a statement referring to a special date