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1、OutlineGriceCooperative PrincipleConversational Implicature第1页/共23页Grice(19131988)a British-educated philosopher of languageStudy:The differences and relationships between speaker meaning and linguistic meaning.nonliteral speech as the outcome of a cooperative principle,and some derived maxims of di

2、scourse,speaker meaning第2页/共23页Grices work:he proposed different kinds of implicatures and used that term as he claimed that implication was not the right word.He reprinted many of his essays and papers in his valedictory book,Studies in the Way of Words.Significance:one of the foundations of the mo

3、dern study of pragmatics.第3页/共23页Categories of Implicature第4页/共23页Cooperative PrincipleCooperative principle is a very important factor in the process of generating implicature.Grice:Make your conversational contribution such as is required,at the stage at which it occurs,by the accepted perpose or

4、direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged.(Cole&Morgan,1975:45)第5页/共23页Four Maxims of Cooperative PrincipleQuantity Maxim(数量准则)Quality Maxim(质量准则)Relation Maxim（关系准则）Manner Maxim（方式准则）第6页/共23页Quantity Maxim1.Make your contribution as informative as is required(for the current perpose o

5、f the exchange).2.Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.Michael has four dictionaries.Michael has five,six or even more dictionaries.第7页/共23页Quality MaximTry to make your contribution true:1)Do not say what you believe to be false.2)Do not say that for which you lack adequa

6、te evidence.Honesty is the first policy.第8页/共23页Relation MaximBe relevant（关联的）.1)A:Mrs.Smith is so disgusting at the party.B:The curtain is very beautiful.2)A:I am out of petrol.B:There is a garage at the corner.第9页/共23页Manner MaximBe perspicuous:1)Avoid obscurity of expression.2)Avoid ambiguity.3)B

7、e brief(Avoid unnecessary prolixity)4)Be orderly.Open the door.Go to the door,put the key into the lock,turn the key clockwise two times and push.Husband:What should we buy for the kids?Wife:Lets veto I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M.第10页/共23页Conversational ImplicaturesA conversational implicature is an inference fr

8、om the semantic content depending on context,speakers intention,hearers attitude and the mutual assumption.Grices Theory of Conversational Implicature(1967)is one of the single most important ideas in pragmatics(Levinson,1983)第11页/共23页examples for implicatureA:How are you?B:Im dead.(possible speaker

9、 meaning:Im very tired.)A:Would you like a cocktail?Its my own invention.B:Well,mmm,uh its not that we dont not drink.(possible speaker meaning:No,I dont like it.)第12页/共23页Two CategoriesGeneralized Conversational Implicature Particularized Conversational Implicature第13页/共23页Generalized implicature i

10、s the implicature that arises as a result of observing the maxims.This type of implicature can be understood and interpreted without making reference to any conversa-tional contexts.(不需上下文也能产生的会话含义叫一般会话含义)e.g.I walked into a house.+The house is not my house.(一般会话含义)第14页/共23页Particularized implicatur

11、e（特殊会话含义）arises from the act of flouting or violating the maxims.By flouting the maxims,the speaker wants to force the listener to draw extended implicature.Therefore,the interpretation of a particularized implicature has to rely on certain specific context as in the following example：The dog is loo

12、king very happy.（需要上下文才能产生的会话含义)第15页/共23页Special features of implicaturesCancellability 可取消性Non-detachability 不可分离性Calculability 可推导性Non-conventionality 非规约性Indeterminacy 不确定性第16页/共23页Cancellabilityadd more clause to cancel the implicature.1)Bill has four books.(Implicature:Bill has only four books

13、and no more or no less.)Bill has four books,perhaps five or more.2)A:There is a young lady with him,sir.She is crying.B:Pretty?A:I should say she is pretty,sir,in a quite inoffensive way.You are the cream in my coffee.In fact,I dont like cream.第17页/共23页Non-detachabilityConversational implicatures ar

14、e attached to the content rather than to the form.In other words,it is not possible to get rid of the implicatures by substituting words with synonyms.Bob is a genius.Bob is a mental prodigy.Bob is an exceptionally clever human being.Bob is an enormous intellect Bob is a big brain.Compare:Bill didnt

15、 manage to save the child.Bill didnt save the child.第18页/共23页CalculabilityAn addressee would make the inference in question to preserve the assumption of cooperation.a set of factors which have to be analyzed if we want to work out the implicature:1)the conventional meaning of the utterance,i.e.,the

16、 propositional content.2)the Cooperative Principle and submaxims.3)the context.4)the mutual understanding of the participants,what has been said and what is expected to follow.5)all these things must be accessible to the participants in the conversation.第19页/共23页Non-conventionalityThe literal meanin

17、g remains the same in all contexts,but conversational implicature will vary or be lost as the context changes.It is cold here.第20页/共23页IndeterminacyAn expression with a single meaning can produce different implicatures as the contexts and participants vary.He is an ox.1)as stubborn as an ox2)as dumb as an ox.第21页/共23页第22页/共23页感谢您的观看！第23页/共23页