Paper Requirements:
Your assignment is to write a paper of no less than 1,200 words and no more than 1,800 words (i.e. between 5 to 7 pages double-spaced).Your goal in this paper is to write an essay that clearly and critically engages with one of the essay prompts.Your paper should include a thesis statement, a concise summary of the issue you plan on discussing, and a development of your position and the reasons that take to support it.
Essay Topic
3.Herbert Clark introduces the notion of a communal lexicon. What is a communal lexicon and what exactly does Clark think the category of communal lexicon is supposed to explain? How do communal lexicons relate to social conventions? What is an example of a communal lexicon that is not mentioned by Clark? Do you think that communal lexicons explain what they are supposed to explain? Why or why not?


