CMN 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kellyanne Conway, Cooperative Principle, Implicature
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The words we use to communicate meaning usually carries more meaning than the words alone. Make your conversational contribution such as required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged (grice, 1975, p. 26) Follow rules to make contributions, do what is needed at point when uttered. If you follow the rules of cooperative principle, you are being cooperative in conversation. Sometimes people may seem like they are violating maxim. But we give them benefit of doubt. (something about perlocution ?? listen to podcast. Ex: people say something literal, but we learn to look for and process the illocution. Sometimes locution may violate maxim, but the illocution will not. Strategically shifting topic to convey they did not do well on exam or they do not want to talk about the exam. A may respond with, sorry you didn"t do that well .
