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1. The Pragmatics Action Maze

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This lesson aims helps students navigate requests by identifying pragmatically appropriate language.

2. Softening Short Requests

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This lesson aims to introduce students to a range of different ways in which native speakers soften their requests and to develop their awareness of how these are used by different speakers and in different situations within the speech community.

3. The Texas Airport Cookies: Pragmatic Variation from an Urban Legend

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This aims to enhance awareness of pragmatic variation with respect to setting and participant characteristics in an airport scenario.

4. Chapter 1: Rights of the Individual

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on individual rights such as the right to equality and the right to an education.

5. Chapter 2: Individual Freedoms: Freedom of Expression

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on freedom of expression.

6. Chapter 3: Individual Freedoms: Freedom of the Press

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on issues related to freedom of the press.

7. Chapter 5: Responsibilities of the Government

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on the duties that a government has to its citizens.

8. Chapter 6: Rules and Laws

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on the aspects of rules and laws and the role of rules and laws in civil societies.

9. Chapter 2: Air Pollution

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Environmental Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Environmental Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on air pollution.

10. Chapter 3: Human Population

    In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Environmental Education Format(s): Text

    This chapter in the Environmental Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on the effect that overpopulation has on the environment.

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