English Discourse and Pragmatics - Optional Extra Credit for Midterm James Madison University

[This assignment is optional and will be marked only as a sufficient or insufficient effort. It is due with your midterm and will be worth 5 points extra credit on that exam. ]

Task: Using the research database Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), available through the JMU libraries website, find a journal article, dissertation, book or book chapter ( from no earlier than 1990 ) that deals with an aspect of pragmatics or discourse that has been discussed in this course. Write down or print out the full reference for this work, explain what it is an example of and why it is interesting.