The Co-operative principle and Implicature Done by Ihtiyorjon (이튼)

Flout a maxim

An intentional blatant violation that hearer is expected to be aware of the violation.

• Example:

a) The exam was a breeze.

An exam a (literal) breeze (flouting the maxim of Quality)

b) A: How is the weather like today?

B: The groceries are selling fresh strawberries. (flouting the Maxim of Relation)

Opt out of the maxims

To refuse to play the game at all

• Example
• If wife tries to have an argument with her husband and he responds by opening the newspaper and begins to read, he has opted out the maxims.

Types of Conversational implicature

Conversational implicature includes

• generalized conversational implicature
• particularized conversational implicature

Generalized conversational implicature

• +No special knowledge is required in the context
• +a/an X =>not speaker’s X
• Example

Grice's first example is a sentence of the form “X is meeting a woman this evening.” Anyone who utters this sentence, in absence of special circumstances, would be taken to implicate that the woman in question was someone other than X's “wife, mother, sister, or perhaps even close platonic friend” (Ibid.)