Cooperative priciple - Implicature

Which Maxim says: Be clear; be brief; be orderly; don't be obscure?

• The Maxim of Quality

• The Maxim of Quantity

• The Maxim of Manner

• The Maxim of Relation

If a speaker tells a lie, they break the Maxim of __.

• Quantity

• Quality

• Manner

• Relation

“Don’t make your contribution more informative than is required”

What maxim does this rule belong to?

• The Maxim of Quantity

• The Maxim of Quality

• The Maxim of Manner

• The Maxim of Relation

A: Can you recommend any good new films?

B: I'm thinking about buying a new phone, but I'm not sure which brand or model is best.

=> B has flouted the maxim of__.

• Quality

• Relation

• Manner

• Quantity

A: Do you have the time?

B: It’s 9:30 at night, Greenwich Mean Time, 5 December 2023.

=> B has flouted the maxim of__.

• Quality

• Quantity

• Manner

• Relation

In conversational implicature, it is important to note that it is speakers who communicate meaning via implicatures and it is listeners who recognize those communicated meanings via ________

"He sometimes reads the newspaper."

What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?

• Scalar implicature

• Generalized conversational implicature

• Conventional implicature

• Particularized conversational implicature

“John walked into a house yesterday and saw a dog.”

What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?

• Scalar implicature

• Particularized conversational implicature

• Conventional implicature

• Generalized conversational implicature

"John is poor but happy."

What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?

• Scalar implicature

• Particularized conversational implicature

• Conventional implicature

• Generalized conversational implicature

A: Will Helen be at the meeting this morning?

B: Her car broke down.

What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?

• Scalar implicature

• Particularized conversational implicature

• Conventional implicature

• Generalized conversational implicature