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Imagine a situation in which two people are engaged in attempting to blow up the safe of a bank. One says (1) to the other. The literal meaning of (1) is something like, There are members of the police force in the vicinity. But the meaning that the speaker intends to communicate, and indeed that the hearer is likely to grasp, is something like Drop everything and run!
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Franks, B., Green, H.A. (2011). Pragmatic Theory and Social Relations. In: Hook, D., Franks, B., Bauer, M.W. (eds) The Social Psychology of Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297616_6
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