General Instruction: This examination booklet contains three sections. Section One
requires you to provide short answers as per the instruction in the section. Under
Section Two, you need to write a short paragraph in line with the instruction in this
section. In Section Three, you are required to write an extended essay. Answer ALL the
questions. Read all the questions carefully before answering. Number your answers
clearly.
SECTION ONE: THEORY OF IMPLICATURE................................................. (20 MARKS]
Mention the type of conversational implicature embedded in each of the following
sentence.
1. Her pilot brother has a fear of heights.
2. I am studying Linguistics at the Namibia University of science and Technology and
completed some of the required module.
3. His son is one of the top performing PhD candidates of Forensic Linguistics at the
University of Stellenbosch.
4. Kapenda thinks there is a meeting tonight at NUST Hotel School.
5. My heart's a stereo and it beats for my husband only.
6. Hosea has most of the money and settled all our bills at NUST Hotel School.
7. For the entire 2023 academic year, this room 211 has become my prison.
8. What on earth has happened to the roast beef?
9. I walked into a house.
10. Katutura police station got robbed in the daylight yesterday.
SECTION TWO: PRESUPPOSITION, ENTAILMENT AND IMPLICATURE .............. (30 MARKS]
Expounding and interpreting the relationships and differences between presupposition,
entailment, and implicature in Pragmatics have been a very complex task. Write a
comparative paragraph unlocking the relationship between presupposition, entailment, and
implicature in Pragmatics. Whenever possible, provide pragmatic examples.
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