LINGUIST 2E03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Abu Ghraib Torture And Prisoner Abuse, Implicature, Paul Grice

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 2E03
• Professor: Magda Stroinska

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You will be given an example of conversational implicature to explain and analyze. You need to be able to define ci, explain how it works in this case, think of your own examples, and explain the role of gricean maxims in communication. The weather has been spectacular this past week . An implicature is something that was meant, implied, or suggested but is distinct from what is actually said. Miss singer produced a series of sounds that corresponded roughly to the score of an aria from. B: will jeff be joining us tonight . He says this: p, but q = it must be 7 am. He should know, that she will know the milkman comes at 7 am. B: the milkman has just come. p (true) Are you always orderly: if you start listening to what people say. Is what you say always relevant: if you answered yes, you lied . *exam: what"s the relevance of the maxim.