New posts in pragmatics

"You got it" vs. "I got it"

Are you being served/helped?

Is the use of the word 'damn' to express frustration offensive?

What natural mechanisms in English are used to avoid to mention the number of things and the gender of people? [closed]

Is the use of the dative of possession (from Latin) in English phrases proper?

"He has been learning to swim" implicates that he doesn’t know how to swim

Do all “epicene” pronouns mean the same thing as one another?

Water can/may still get in

Felicitated- pragmatics and connotations

"Are YOU coming to get me" / "Are you coming to GET me" Is there any grammatical or semantic difference?

"When I last saw him he was dying, but now you'd hardly know he'd been ill"

Is calling someone "old school"- offensive/derogatory? [closed]

"It is that ..." sentences in a non-linguistic context

"Can I bum a cigarette?" - "I’m an athlete"

The word 'until': 'fought off the Dutch until 1903' _ does this necessarily imply being conquered in 1903? [closed]

Conversational Postulate

Origin of "How are you?"

"noun of noun" vs. "noun+noun"?

Implication of unstated contrasting cases

"Populist" in the following text context