S11,12 Pragmatics I+II

Question 1

pragmatics

Answer 1

more than the literal meaning

Question 2

speech act theory

Answer 2

actions performed via utterances

Question 3

Grice’s Cooperative Principles 4

Answer 3

1. Quantity
   - as informative as possible
2. quality
   - do not say what’s false
   - do not say something with lack of evidence
3. relation
   - be relevant
4. manner
   - avoid obscurity of expression
   - avoid ambiguity
   - be brief
   - be orderly

Question 4

grice: status of the maximes

Answer 4

they are only theoretical

Question 5

grice: violations

Answer 5

can happen = misleads the conversation

Question 6

grice: flouting

Answer 6

blatantly fail to fulfill it, and thus generate a conversational implicature

Question 7

grice: conversational implicature

Answer 7

if it does not apply to the maxime it’s not nonsense but rather an implicature is generated

Question 8

grice: deixis

Answer 8

point at specific entities or aspects of the communicative situation; person deixis, place deixis, time deixis