Wie Bedoelt u Met We?

The persons who are being referred to by means of we_ may change in the course of conversation. We will demonstrate by means of a number of examples taken from classroom-discourse that the addressee - and so also the language student- knows exactly (because of context, situation and knowledge of the world) who is meant by we at each point in the conversation. The examples will show some typical environments for we. It will be shown that the referent of we changes when the situation being referred to changes.