However, Mr Villaraigosa said he took full responsibility for breaking official protocol about declaring the gifts, which included complimentary tickets to the Oscars and baseball games.
This paper is written to study pragma-linguistic failures, which result from the inappropriate use of linguistic expressions in violation of pragmatic principles in the course of communication.
It might seem counterintuitive, but Kiecolt-Glaser believes that stress makes our immune systems less effective because it actually elicits an immune response itself.
Miles sometime went to the barbers during working hours to have his hair cut. But this was against the office rules: clerks had to have their hair cut in their own time.