[判断题] The meaning of the word black doesn’t differ in the two collocations of black hair and black coffee since linguistic context doesn’t form part of the meaning of the word.

1、[判断题]Grice specified two kinds of implied meaning or implicature: conventional implicature and non-conventional implicature. Conventional implicature is inferred by the hearer with reference to the context of communication. For example, he is rich but he is not greedy.

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2、[判断题]In English, long vowels are also tense vowels because when we pronounce a long vowel such as /i:/, the larynx is in a state of tension.

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3、[判断题]Male speech is, on the whole, less assertive and thus sounds to be more polite than male speech. For instance, male speakers tend to use more often the question tag and such syntactic forms as I’m afraid…and I’m not sure but…

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4、[判断题]What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning the context of use is considered. If it is not considered, the study is being carried out in the area of pragmatics.

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5、[主观题]What is pragmatic failure? Try to find instances of pragmatic failure in the English used by Chinese learners of English.

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