What are the four maxims of the Cooperative Principle?Please give examples to show how the flouting of these maxims gives rise

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问题 What are the four maxims of the Cooperative Principle?Please give examples to show how the  flouting of these maxims gives rise to conversational implicature(Give at least two examples, each flouting a different maxim).

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答案The four maxims of the cooperative principle are maxim of quantity,maxim of quality,maxim of manner and maxim of relation. Example 1 A:The hostess is an awful bore.Don’t you think? B:The roses in the garden are beautiful,aren’t they? This is said when it is known to both A and B that it is entirely possible for B to make a comment on the hostess.Thus B is saying something irrelevant to what A has just said,and flouting the maxim of relation.The implicature produced is“I don’t wish to talk about the hostess in such a rude manner.” Example 2 A:Shall we get something for the kids? B:Yes.But I veto I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M. This is said when it is known to both A and B that B has no difficulty in pronouncing the word“ice-cream”.Thus B has flouted the maxim of manner.The implicature produced is“I don’t want the kids to know we are talking about ice-cream.”

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