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| Quantity | Manner | Quality | Relation | | Quantity | Manner | Quality | Relation | ||
---+ Mom: What did you think of Junior’s childish behavior last night? Dad: Well, boys will be boys | |||
|| | || The father's reply is seemingly unrelated to the question. | ||
+--- Teacher A: Do you have any rude students this semester? Teacher B: All students are rude. | |||
|| A's question triggers the quantity implicature from ''any'' to ''not all''. B's reply cancels this implicature explicitly. | |||
-- | -+-- Student A: I read the book and bought it. - but not in this order. | ||
---+ Student A: | || A violates the temporal order. The manner implicature needs to be explicitly cancelled. | ||
--+- Student A: C | |||
+--- Student A: Did you read the paper and work on the assignment? Student B: I worked on the assignment. | |||
|| B's reply triggers the quantitiy implicature that s/he did not read the paper. | |||
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Revision as of 20:53, 13 November 2013
The following material is an adapted form of material created by student participants of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS).
Involved participants: Stephanie C., Stephie R., Jenny, Anna P.
Implicatures
Grice's Conversational Maxims
According to Grice's theory of conversational implicature, there are four basic maxims which specify how to be cooperative in conversation: Quantity, Manner, Quality and Relation. Grice believed that implicatures arise when these maxims are violated and the speaker (relying on an assumption of cooperation) is forced to infer meaning.