Ling 131: Language & Style
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12 - Meaning between the lines (Session A) > Practising
Gricean Analysis > Task E
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| Session Overview |
| Inference and the Discourse Architecture of Drama |
| Grice's Cooperative Principle |
| Practising Gricean Analysis |
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| Conversational implicature and The Dumb Waiter |
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Practising Gricean AnalysisTask E - The return of a Shakespearean exampleWe first came across the following two lines in Task C of the 'Analysing drama - preliminary matters' page in Topic 11. You may find it helpful to remind yourself of what we discovered in that task before completing this one. There are a number of maxims flouted in these two lines. Try to identify them all, the implicatures which result from each flout, and how they contribute to the overall effect.
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Task F - A bit more information about how the Gricean maxims operate
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