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Session Overview |
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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Grice's Cooperative PrincipleTask B - Coming out of the theatre againHere is the text again, and below it we have provided a link to our discussion of our understanding of it. You need to decide (1) what maxim(s) have been broken, (2) whether the break constitutes a violation or a flout and what the general interpretative consequences are: We have just gone to see the performance of a play together. As we are coming out of the theatre you ask me:
You can look back at our answer to Task A on the 'Inference and the discourse architecture of drama' page.
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