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Inference and the Discourse Architecture of Drama
Grice's Cooperative Principle
Practising Gricean Analysis
Top Girls
Conversational implicature and The Dumb Waiter
Gricean Self-Test
 
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Conversational implicature and The Dumb Waiter

In this section we are going to analyse a passage taken from near the beginning of The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter More about Harold Pinter.

We will begin by using the turn-taking style of analysis we explored in Topic 11 and then add in some Gricean analysis as a way of exploring the text.

 

 

 

 


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