English Linguistics - Assignment 7 James Madison University

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

1. Find one example of an utterance with an indirect speech act (illocutionary act) and another utterance in which the illocutionary act is more directly related to the locutionary act. Provide the context, as needed, to explain the examples.
2. Try to find an example of a sentence in an advertisement that has an implicature that may be being used to affect potential buyers.
3. Do 21a-e and 22a-c in your textbook.