WorksheetsCooperation & Implicature
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 3mins
Many expressions such as “ business is business”, or “boys will be boys” are called …..........
tautologies
conventional implicature
conversational implicature
particularized conversational implicature
Implicatures are primary examples of more being communicated than is said.
True
False
Two types of conversational implicature are:
conventional and generalized
conventional and particularized
generalized and particularized
tautologies and generalized
…............. implicatures are not tied to the particular words and phrases in an utterance but arise instead from contextual factors and the understanding that conventions are observed in conversation.
Conventional
Conversational
When no special knowledge is required in the context to calculate the additional conveyed meaning, it is called a generalized conversational implicature.
True
False
The generalized conversational implicature of “a/an X” is:
not speaker's X
speaker's X
…................... regarding the limitation of information conveyed by the speaker.
quality
manner
relation
quantity
… (a) are used to show the speaker's awareness of cooperative maxims.
…................... make your conservational contribution as required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged.
Conversational implicature
Tautologies
The cooperative principle
Hedges
The basis of scalar implicature is that when any form in a scale is asserted, the …………… of all forms higher on the scale is implicated.
(a)
But if you can tolerate it, what follows will explain why free trade sometimes hurts the world economy.
The utterance in this sentence implicates:
not many
not all
not always
not certain
A particularized conversational implicature occurs when a conversation doesn’t take place in a very specific context.
True
False
