Implicature

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

What maxim does this above rule belong to?

• Maxim of quality

• Maxim of quantity

• Maxim of relation

• D. Maxim of manner

“Don’t say what you believe to be false”

What maxim does this above rule belong to?

• A. Maxim of quality

• B. Maxim of quantity

• C. Maxim of relation

• D. Maxim of manner

“He sometimes writes to me”

What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?

• A.Scalar implicature

• C. Conventional implicature

• conversational implicature

“Will Sally be at the meeting this afternoon? – Her car broke down”

What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?

• A.Scalar implicature

• C. Conventional implicature

• conversational implicature

“Even Bill likes Mary”

What kind of implicature can you find in this utterance?

• A.Scalar implicature

• conversational implicature

• C. Conventional implicature

“A: Where is my box of chocolates?

B: The children were in your room this morning.”

Which maxim does the answer of B violate?

• A. Maxim of quality

• B. Maxim of quantity

• C. Maxim of relation

• D. Maxim of manner

Which maxim does the answer violate?

“A: I hear you went to the opera last night; how was the lead singer?

B: The singer produced a series of sounds corresponding closely to the score of an aria from ‘Rigoletto’”

• A. Maxim of quality

• B. Maxim of quantity

• C. Maxim of relation

• D. Maxim of manner

What kind of implicature does B include in his expression?

A: I’m going to the prison tomorrow.

B: Will 200 dollars do?

• Scalar

• Conventional

• conversational

Which kind of maxims does this conversation NOT follow?

A: "What are you doing?"

B: "1+1=2, 2+2=4, 4+1=5"

• Quantity

• Quality

• Manner

• Relation

What about these two girls?

• She really wants to be prepared for a funeral.

• The question annoys her and she just wants to avoid it or to stop asking the same thing every time.

• The pink girl is concerned about why she is always in black