LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Paul Grice, Cooperative Principle, Presupposition
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What is said: a breathable membrane giving a good resistance of water penetration. What is implicated: not giving a complete resistance . Think of an example to back up your answer. answer: no. E. g. , i murdered bill. implies that bill died, and the entailment that bill died cannot be cancelled because someone murdered him, so he had to be dead. Think of an example to back up your answer. Postulated by philosopher paul grice in famous paper (logic and conversation) Intended to help explain how conversational implicatures arise. Cooperative principle: make your contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk in which you are engaged . Grice lays out a number of principles ( maxims of conversation") that cooperative interlocutors adhere to. For instance, cooperative speakers should be as informative as they can. In court, a wants to know how many children b has.
