LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Paul Grice, Implicature, Cooperative Principle
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Make your contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occur, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk in which you are engaged. In court, a wants to know who killed lord disgrace. B is saying something that he/she knows is not true. Implicatures are inferences that listeners can draw on the basis of the assumption that speakers are cooperative, that is, obey the maxims of conversation. A might infer that b does not know french. If b knew french, quantity 1 could have compelled him to say so. So i conclude that b does not know french. We could also say that b is being over informative because he is talking about. He is not simply saying, no, i don"t know french. B: he"s been going to toronto a lot these days. Assuming that b is cooperative, his answer obeys relevance.
