Worksheet 1

1) Consider the gif below and answer the following questions:

a) What is the illocutionary force of his utterance? Is it achieved directly or indirectly?

b) If taken at face value, who does his utterance appear to benefit?

c) Which one of Grice’s maxims is not observed?

Cartoon taken from Collins Cobuild Phrasal Verbs Workbook p. 114

Worksheet 2

Try to work out the statement (only 1 !!!) which can be used for all of the meaning and related contexts below. There is only ONE possibility!!!!

STATEMENT	MEANING	CONTEXT
	We must do our weekly shopping.	Wife to husband who wants to have a lie-in.
	All my friends are out tonight.	Son to father. The boy wants to stay out late and the father thinks he should stay in studying.
	You can leave early.	Lady speaking to live-out nanny.
	We won’t find a place to see the latest picture.	Boyfriend to girlfriend who insists they should go to the cinema.
	We are all alone…	Wife to husband to remind him that they children are spending the day in her mother’s place.
	Don’t park here or you will get a parking ticket.	Wife to husband to remind him that he can only park in that area on Sundays.

* Adapted from Frank, C., Rinvolucri, M. & Berer, M. 1982. Challenge to think. Oxford: OUP.