Questions tagged [pragmatics]

Is there any pargamtic difference between the following sentences? The children like that the clown performs in a circus. The children like it that the clown performs in a circus.

while reading a Wiki page about pragmatics and presuppositions, I came upon this explanation: Some further implicative predicates: [...] X avoided Ving » X was expected to, or usually did, or ought to V, etc. I don't understand how it presupposes…

Would anyone please enlighten me on why the author uses 'if and only if' here? It sounds to me as though just 'if' sufficed for him to inform the readers 'Cats are her favourite animals' is the truth condition. Implicature A communicated…

Let me go. / Let me do it. / Let me see, try, etc. Q1. Which meaning are these more close to? "Allow me to go, do, see?" or "I'll go, do, see, etc?" There are two reasons I doubt this: As far as I've seen, most of these LET-ME imperatives didn't…