Implication in English

[Piscean]

"And would you like vegetables or salad?" the implied part is not the whole answer. It is only a part of the answer so the proper explicit possible answers are Yes, both. Yes, vegetables. Yes, salad. No, I don't want neither. No, I don't want neither. Can I have something else?

If you wish to go (unnecessarily, in my opinion) into 'proper explicit possible answers', then perhaps they should be:

No, I don't want vegetables or salad; I want both vegetables and salad.
Yes, I would like vegetables/Yes, I would like salad.
No, I want neither vegetables nor salad. I want nothing.
No, I want neither vegetables nor salad. I want something else.

This seems to be to be burdening the learners with a great deal of not particularly helpful material.

There is enough garbage semantics in linguistics to last a lifetime so let's not include that.

Which particular garbage semantics did you not want to include?

I did a TEFL with so much jargon- most of which I will never use.

I'd be interested to know what jargon you appear to dismiss. Perhaps you could tell us - in a new thread.

None of my students are at a level whereby they write anything like that. My answer was implication in practice.

whereby?

[jutfrank]

W: What steak would you like: rare, medium or well - done?
A: Medium, please.
W: And would you like vegetables or salad?
A: Vegetables, please. (implies yes)

Despite its syntactic form, the highlighted question does not require a yes/no answer. It is meant for the responder to say which of the two options he wants. The idea is that when you order the steak, there is a choice of accompaniment. You simply answer: Salad, please or Vegetables, please. It would be very unusual for someone not to order an accompaniment for a steak, and perhaps even more unlikely that someone would request both salad and vegetables!

There is no implication of any kind being made here—just a direct answer to a clear question.

[jutfrank]

Short hand is implication- you are implying some words that are not included. There is enough garbage semantics in linguistics to last a lifetime so let's not include that.

I have no idea what any of this is supposed to mean.