Title
Define and exemplify 3 of the following (using Euripides Ion 529-543 if you want): a) illocutionary force; b) felicity conditions; c) maxims of politeness; d) deictic markers; e) presupposition triggers; f) discourse topic.
   
Reading
R. Fasold Sociolinguistics of Language (Oxford 1990), ch. 5 and 6
Leech & Thomas 'Language, Meaning and Context: Pragmatics', in N.E. Collinge (ed.) An Encyclopedia of Language, (London 1990),pp. 173-206
S. Levinson Pragmatics (Cambridge 1983), ch. 5 and 6
J.L. Mey Pragmatics (Oxford 1993)
N.E. Collinge 'Thoughts of the Pragmatics of Ancient Greek', Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 1988, pp. 1-13

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