ABSTRACT
(1) Tim and Gareth, two employees of a paper merchant, are having a conversation over lunch.
TIM
I’m not thinking about it, I’m doing it. I’m leaving to go back to university to learn about more than the price of Opti-Bright Laser Copy paper.
GARETH
Two ninety-eight a gramme.
TIM
Two forty a gramme. Check the list.
GARETH
Yeah. Thought you said something different. What are you gonna study?
TIM
Psychology.
GARETH
What you wanna be a psychiatrist for? They’re all mad themselves, aren’t they? Dialogue from the script of the television (TV) series The Office (Gervais and Merchant, 2002, p.192).
