LIN 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Star-Spangled Banner, Implicature

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 207
• Professor: Abigael Candelas

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The maxim of manner encourages speakers to be clear: Be orderly: cooperative speech should be easy to understand and communicated as efficiently as possible. As with all of the maxims, cultural practices will affect the exact manner in which this is obeyed. The maxim of manner constrains ambiguous speech, but the maxim of quantity limits information. This see(cid:373)s u(cid:374)usual, u(cid:374)less the (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t is su(cid:272)h that a (cid:449)ould(cid:374)(cid:859)t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hether it(cid:859)s (cid:373)or(cid:374)i(cid:374)g or after(cid:374)oo(cid:374) The maxim of manner constrains ambiguous speech, but the maxim of relevance presumes coherence. : i ha(cid:448)e(cid:374)(cid:859)t talked to (cid:373)(cid:455) father i(cid:374) a fe(cid:449) da(cid:455)s. i hope he(cid:859)s alright. (cid:862)he(cid:863) (cid:272)ould refer to (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals, (cid:271)ut the ma(cid:454)i(cid:373) of ele(cid:448)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e helps resol(cid:448)e the ambiguity. On the assumption that s has obeyed the maxims when generating an utterance. Implicatures are only implied -- the speaker could reasonably go on to cancel them without a contradiction. S: liza ate some of the cookies.