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Practising Gricean Analysis

Task A - Our answer

B flouts the maxim of quantity by answering a question about two people as if it were a question about just one of them. Because she says Kate is nice, but says nothing about John, we can infer that B is implicating that John is not fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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