LING 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Pragmatics, Communicative Competence
8 Jan 2018
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Are children with autism deaf to grecian maxims? (surian et al. Significance: how does morpho syntactic stuff go into pragmatics or does it at all, maybe they want to show that the difficulty with pragmatics was not because of the language aspect but because of cognitive deficiencies. Some background: grice (1975) principle of cooperation in conversation, maxim of quantity, make your contribution as informative as is required, do not make your contribution more informative than is required. We always flout the grecian maxims, but the listener uses additional information to understand what we are talking about. As typically-developed adults, we automatically try to infer that maybe there is a program called. We are forcing meaning into the answer to make it line up with our expectations for the. Grecian maxims required in the answer to our question. What is your favourite programme on the telly.
