TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC ĐỒNG THÁP

KHOA NGOẠI NGỮ

TIỂU LUẬN
HỌC PHẦN: NGỮ DỤNG HỌC

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Giảng viên hướng dẫn:
 TIỂU LUẬN – NGỮ DỤNG HỌC
LỚP: ĐHSANH21-L2-CẦN THƠ
Directions

Your test should be organized as the frame below

Full name:……………………………………….Date of birth:………………………….

Class:……………………………………………Student ID number:…………………...

Email address:…………………………………..Phone number:………………………...

Notes:
Submission:
Your finished report must be sent to:
Nguyễn Văn Tám, email: nvtam72@gmail.com.vn and LMS system of Dong Thap
university
Deadline: July 30th, 2023

Text format and layout

Font: Times New Roman
Size: 13
Line: single
Spacing: 0.6 (before and after paragraphs)
Top and bottom: 1,5 cm
Right and left: 2,0 cm

Plagiarism

No selected documents must be used twice (Selected documents for assignment

must be different from individual to individual). Plagiarism will not be allowed in
your assignment. Any detected signs of plagiarism (even among classmate’s
products) will be considered as cheating and the report will be, therefore,
eliminated.
1. Identify the speaker’s meaning of each the underline utterances( 1 point)
1 a.
A: Whoa, has your teacher gone angry?
B: Let’s go to get some coffee.
“B” means that he wants to talk about that problem at the coffee shop
1 b.
A: Where is the salad dressing?
B: we have run out of olive oil.
“B” means____________________________

2. Give two statements of speech acts and identify the three levels (locutionary,
illocutionary and perlocutionary) of the act in each statement. (2 points)

3. Identify the presupposition in the following sentences. (2 points)

a. I am not able to go to Hanoi this weekend.

b. Did you return the book to the library? You had borrowed a book from the library

c. I am going to spend my holiday in the country.

d. He bought a new English- Vietnamese dictionary yesterday.

4. For each of the following sentences , provide two situations so that one utterance
performs two different acts. Interpret the utterances and identify the acts performed in
the light of the situation you provide. (2 points)

a. We are running out of time.

b. The ice-cream is in the fridge.

5. Find out and analyze 2 examples of conversational implicatures. (1 points)

6. What is pragmatics? Why is pragmatic awareness important? Give examples to

distinguish a semantic meaning and a pragmatic meaning (2 points)