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Question:

Revise your Step 3 as needed based on the assessment you received, and update your Change Log to reflect your revisions.

Decide how your language will form polar questions (intonation only, or question particle, or syntactic movement). Decide how your language will form content questions (you'll need an interrogative morpheme, it will appear either in-situ or else with syntactic movement).

Decide on a kind of pragmatic practice you'd like to develop for your language - select from joking, teasing, swearing or word taboos.

find a scholarly article about some real-life community practice of the sort you've selected. We recommend the JSTOR database for this purpose, as it allows you to limit searches to journals published in one or several academic disciplines. You will need an article that meets the following requirements:
o It was published in a journal in either Anthropology or Linguistics; and
o It focuses on a language community that you are unfamiliar with; and
o It focuses on one of the pragmatic practice you've selected; and
o It provides actual language examples - not just descriptions in English - of the system.

Draft two sections of your Language Project: Question Formation, and Pragmatics.

o Your question formation section will have two subsections: polar questions and content questions. In the polar questions subsection, describe and give an example of a polar question in your language. In the content questions subsection, describe and give an example of a content question your language.
o Your pragmatics section will have two subsections: in the literature and in my language.

In the subsection called in the literature briefly describe what you learned from your article. Be sure to cite that article in the text, and provide a complete reference citation in your reference list! Review the sections on Speech Act Theory and Grice's conversational maxims in the Bischoff and Fountain Pragmatics manuscript and see if you can incorporate one of those theories into your discussion.

In the subsection called in my language, create a set of examples in your language that demonstrate how you would build a relevant practice. Your examples might be analogous to, or otherwise inspired by, the article you found in the literature.