LING 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Implicature
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Ling sem: conversational implicatures, whims, politeness, sarcasm, etc. often flout the maxims, perhaps you want to i. ii. iii. Humor your listener: are you a good italian cook? . Is the pope catholic? : some lawyers will ask, is there anything else? to lessen the ambiguity of answers. A speaker may use hedged or indirect language to soften their tone and sound polite. Pushy brash affect may result from direct implicature: societal norms, politeness i. People do not like being backed into a corner. People do not like to back into each other into corners. i. ii: linguistic integrity, linguistic integrity and politeness may not. Gender is not well correlated with hedge patterns of speech (although it used to be thought to be). Powerlessness is: less empowered individuals will be more polite. , police-questioning may be a withering experiment, excessive politeness is sometimes exuded by arrestees to cooperate.
