English Linguistics - Assignment 8 James Madison University

[This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. Find one example of an idiom. ___________ How do you know it is an idiom? ____________________________________________________________
2. More practice with entailment and presupposition:
   1. What's an entailment of "Lucy aced the linguistics test." "
   2. What's presupposed in "So, how fast were you driving when you went through the red light?"
   3. For the following sentence, give an example of two of its entailments and at least one of its presuppositions: "Although it was past her bedtime, the little girl was watching television and eating cookies."
3. Attempt exercises 21a-e and 22a-c in your textbook. ( Note that implicatures can arise when conversational maxims appear at least superficially to be being violated. :) )