英语学习pragmaticsan introduction.pptVIP

If someone who has asked you to fill out a form says Ill get ye a wee pen, dont expect it to be any smaller than a normal standard-issue pen; its just a friendly message of comfort. When you check in at the desk for a dental or medical or opticians appointment they will mark you down as having arrived and then say, If yed just have a wee seat over there, well call ye in a minute or two. The seats indicated are not liliputian but of standard size, with a sitting surface about as 1.3 times the width of an average butt (1.3?bw). It supplies what linguists now call conventional implicature: a com