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WorksheetsGrice's Maxims
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Implicature, Presupposition, or Entailment?
All cows eat grass and Bossie is a cow.
Bossie eats grass.
Implicature
Presupposition
Entailment
Implicature, Presupposition, or Entailment?
Stop bothering me!
You are bothering me.
Implicature
Presupposition
Entailment
Implicature, Presupposition, or Entailment?
Hortense made three pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving dinner.
Hortense made no more than three pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving dinner.
Implicature
Presupposition
Entailment
Be Brief -- Violation or Flout?
We combined the chicken stock, the wine, the rice, the pepper, the saffron, and the other stuff and made risotto milanese.
Violation
Flout
Quality -- Violation or Flout?
Do you have any pets in your 400 sq ft apartment?
Yes, I have a giraffe and a hippo.
Violation
Flout
"Relevance" -- Violation or Flout?
"Did you just pee in the pool?”
“Hey look! That’s a Sinclair Brontosaurus over there!"
Violation
Flout
Which maxim?
Q: Where does Timmy live?
A: O'er yonder in a soybean field
Quality
Quantity
Relevance
Manner
None of the above
Which maxim?
Q: Do you want to go milk the cows right now?
A: How about Toews and his retirement from the Blackhawks?
Quality
Quantity
Relevance
Manner
None of the above
Which maxim?
Q: How long does it take to drive to Disney World from Chicago?
A: Exactly 28.6 hours.
Quality
Quantity
Relevance
Manner
None of the above
Which maxim?
[In response to a jump scare]
“You almost gave me an MI!” (where MI = myocardial infarction = heart attack)
Quality
Quantity
Relevance
Manner
None of the above
