English Linguistics - Assignment 8 James Madison University

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

• Do Exercise 19 on page 217 in your text.
• Do Exercise 22, just examples e-h, on page 218-219 in your text.
• For each of the following sentences, describe a situation in which it may be uttered as an indirect speech act, and then describe what the underlying purpose or intention (the illocutionary force) of that utterance would be in the situation you described:
  1. Is that restaurant is still open?
  2. You don't have to worry about that bully anymore.