Conversation and Pragmatics

to try to deliver our intended messages successfully and smoothly in a coversation, we NEED...

• implicature

• deixis

• cooperation

• pronoun

the idea of COOPERATION in a conversation means that...

• try not to confuse

• tell the truth

• be relevant

• all true

The true meaning of implicature is...

• tell the exact message

• additional information

• inference

• guessing

You don't need this to make an IMPLICATURE

• additional information

• exact meaning

• need inferences

• conclusion

FOUR elements should be fulfilled when having a good conversation, EXCEPT....

• quality of the content

• be informative as possible

• using idioms

• avoid ambiguity

guidelines for making a good conversation according to Grice

• cooperative principle

• maxims

• cooperative & maxims

• conversational implicature

words belong to CONVENTIONAL IMPLICATURE...

• but

• still

• even though

• Although

we can____ our conversational implicature

• cancel

• choose

• opt for

• modify

GENERALIZED CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE does not need....

• meaning

• fact

• background knowledge

• special expertise

when making a conversation, sometimes DEGREE OF CERTAINTY is included, why?

• to give a good example

• to make a focus

• to strengthen the message

• to repeat the messages