Pragmatics II

Question 1

flouting

Answer 1

intentional violation of maxim
still requires conversational partners to be rational and mutually assume adherence to coop principle

Question 2

flouting quantity

Answer 2

A: How was that philosophy talk?
B: Well, he definitely said a bunch of words.
What’s implicated?
It was bad.
It was way over my head

Question 3

flouting quantity with a tautology

Answer 3

war is war = true no matter what, so uninformative
Assuming CP, it’s informative at the level of implicature: violence is necessary in times of war.

Question 4

flouting relation

Answer 4

being irrelevant= infer doesnt want to talk about it

Question 5

flouting manner

Answer 5

saying something odd –> assume person did it in odd way

Question 6

uncooperative children

Answer 6

Mixed results on whether children compute implicatures like adults, especially scalar implicatures
computing implicatures = more for older kids

Question 7

humour

Answer 7

flouting quality or quantity

Question 8

can i get a ride home
my car is out front

Answer 8

B can make the inference that the answers is yes based on the assumption that A is saying something relevant.

Question 9

did you eat all the cookies?
I ate a few.

Answer 9

implicature = didnt eat all
cancel = i ate a few and those were great so i ate the rest too

Question 10

Context: Someone always picks me up after the night class we have together, and you know this. You are about to get in your car:
Me: ‘My sister isn’t here this week…’

Answer 10

implicature = i want a ride
entailment = my sister is elsewhere this week
presup = i have a sister

Question 11

define implicature

Answer 11

inferred based on assumption that our conversational partner is following coop principle

Question 12

entailment vs presup

Answer 12

family of sentences test

Question 13

presup vs implicature

Answer 13

cancelability