Pragmatics Assignment

Pragmatics assignment

Procedure:

1. Choose only 2 items from the following 5 items
2. Elaborate your answer with the logical presupposition (notation)
3. Write down (handwritten) on A4 paper
4. Submit next week on the day of the meeting.

The items:

1. Inexperienced dancers often have difficulty in ending the Natural Turn in the correct alignment . . . It is usually the man who is at fault.
2. She’s a nice woman, isn’t she? Also a nice woman is our next guest.
3. [physician assigning interns to patients] You and you are shortness of breath. You and you take vertigo. And last but not least, knee pain.
4. Dear Ann Landers: Our Phi Beta Kappa son, age 22, is living at home and working in a department store until he decides on further schooling. “Neil” is a pleasure to have around. He’s a son any
   parent would be proud of. Also working in the store is a 29-year-old woman who has an 8-monthold
   child.
5. A: How was your meal?
   B: Good. I had the Pad Thai.