Once the Shoe Company Nike Obtained a Trademark for a Line

question 17

True/False

Once the shoe company Nike obtained a trademark for a line of shoes called Shox, no other company was allowed to use that name for any product.

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Definitions:

Semantics

The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning, including the ways meaning is structured in language and interpreted by people.

Grammatics

The study of grammar, which is the system and structure of a language including syntax, morphology, and phonology.

Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

The theory suggesting that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.

Surface Structure

In linguistics, the outward form of a sentence, including words and their syntax, as opposed to the deeper meanings and relationships analyzed in deep structure.