PHILOS 133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Perlocutionary Act, Implicature, Cooperative Principle
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If you keep adding things and asking what else has to be true in addition to what"s given, pretty soon you"ll run out of utterance to look at. b. It is impossible to be told anyone"s name. Implicature: what is implicated is not entailed (generally) b, based on particular situation. Implicatures are not conventional: conventional implicature: connected with therefore . Doesn"t say q follows from p, but is implicated: cooperative principle: you are supposed to cooperate. Grice wants cooperative principle to be generally respected: quantity: make contribution as informative required for the exchange, not more not less. a. i. Ex. this student has great handwriting (flout: quality: tell the truth, do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence b. i. X is a fine friend (when x is really a pos: be relevant, manner, if you flout the principle, you create an implicature.
