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2nd Assignment (9 points)

1. Semantics: (Chapter 9) (3 points)

a. What is the difference between Semantics and Pragmatics?

b. What is the conceptual meaning and associative meaning that people have when they hear the phrase "it's made in Japan"?

c. Identify the thematic roles in the following sentence.

I hit him with a stick

I =

Him =

With a stick =

2. Pragmatics: (Chapter 10) (4 points)

a. Collect an example of a speech act of request from your WhatsApp chats and identify what politeness strategies used by the speaker to avoid a face-threatening-act (FTA). (e.g. ,بالله, ما عليك امر, ياليت, عندي طلب, اموجي,Using a question structure )

example: speech act of request+ softener

بو علي اذا عندك مسحات طبية جيبها معك لاهنت""

b. Identify the antecedent and the anaphora in the following utterance.

A car crashed into a pole today. It was wrecked completely.

c. Identify the presupposition in the following utterance.

Why did you come late last night?

d. What is the structure and the function of the following utterance?

Can you give me a ride to the airport?

3. Discourse Analysis: (Chapter 11) (2 points)

a. Is the following utterance coherent or cohesive?

Car bombing in Africa, three causalities, two died.

b. What maxim is violated in the utterance below?

Speaker A: Where is the chocolate factory?

Speaker B: the sky is blue.