Grice & the cooperative principle by Natascha Raue

natascha_raue — 2021-11-24 10:04:49 UTC

A: Would you like some coffee?

B: Coffee would keep me awake.

--> What does person B mean with the reply?
(Sperber & Wilson )

natascha_raue — 2021-11-24 10:05:30 UTC

A: Can I go to the washroom?
B: I don't know, can you?

--> What happens here?

natascha_raue — 2021-11-24 10:12:00 UTC

What are possible conversational inferences?

Gricean Maxims & children

natascha_raue — 2021-11-24 10:31:38 UTC

What do you think: what does being cooperative in conversations have to do with the infants development of language?

natascha_raue — 2022-01-07 17:51:52 UTC

(https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/154482764904/who-would-have-believed-that-the-perfect-wikipedia)

natascha_raue — 2022-01-07 18:06:55 UTC

Duck wall
https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/89398581283/epikalia-kanyewesticle-look-at-all-those

natascha_raue — 2022-01-07 18:17:05 UTC

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natascha_raue — 2023-11-26 17:27:38 UTC

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2023-11-27 10:07:55 UTC

Person B implies being tired, possibly not having slept much and thus needing caffeine to stay awake.

2023-11-27 10:12:25 UTC

Person A asks for permission to go to the restroom. Person B refers to the ability of person A to go to the washroom.

2023-11-27 10:13:50 UTC

The answers means basically „yes“.

I think…

2023-11-27 10:15:01 UTC

It is important to answer a child’s question and talk to them in a way that‘ll help them learn to speak and understand. If you were to answer a child’s question with a lecture on physics, they‘ll be more confused than before. At the same time if you were to answer the question with less information than it is required, they‘ll stay confused as well. Children are to be taught to answer and speak in a way so that everyone will understand them.

2023-11-27 10:17:06 UTC

The Cooperative Principle is violated, because the information that Jeremy is trying to imply is different from the information his mother takes from his expression "Fruits and vegetables would be healthy" (He sees that as a negative, whereas she sees it as positive)

Study on children and maxims

natascha_raue — 2023-11-27 10:24:25 UTC

2023-11-27 10:28:20 UTC

I remember my English teacher saying "It's raining cats and dogs outside!" and I was looking out the window and said "Where?"

2023-11-27 10:30:05 UTC

some people tend to violate the Maxim of Quantity when they would talk too much and give more information than needed

Communication is complicated

2023-11-27 10:31:42 UTC

I'm good at talking but I'm really bad at being understood

2023-11-27 10:32:23 UTC

I think it's easy to accidentally violate the maxim of relevance on things such as inside jokes or even in casual conversation when one party lacks background information

2023-11-27 10:35:45 UTC

Sometimes really dry humour performed with a serious face can be difficult to understand

The Maxim of Quantity

2023-11-27 10:36:31 UTC

Make your contribution as informative as is required for the current purposes of the exchange.
Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.

2023-11-27 10:36:50 UTC

The Maxims are guidelines for conversation and some of them are unintentionally very easy to violate. Sometimes this violation is intentional as for jokes or codes that you tell friends for example.

The Maxim of Quality

2023-11-27 10:37:02 UTC

Do not say what you believe to be false
Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence

The Maxim of Relation

2023-11-27 10:37:41 UTC

also called Maxim of Releavnce
only give relevant information

examples for violations of maxim of quantity

natascha_raue — 2023-11-27 10:38:02 UTC

2023-11-27 10:38:31 UTC

Communication

can be more effective & fun by using Implicatures.
only works because we assume that the person we are talking to is being cooperative

The Maxim of Manner

2023-11-27 10:38:35 UTC

Avoid obscurity of expression and ambiguity
Be brief and orderly
clear statements, no additional meaning

2023-11-27 10:39:24 UTC

I wonder how well comedians are aware of these maxims, and whether being hyper aware of them can result in overanalyzing their jokes during the writing process. Or does knowledge of this help in writing jokes?

types of Implicature

2023-11-27 10:40:11 UTC

particularized conversational implicature
generalized conversational implicature
conventional implicature

2023-11-27 10:40:54 UTC

Cooperative Principles are rather guidelines than prescriptive rules. They help the interlocutors to achieve an effective conversational communication. However, these principles are violated and flouted more often than we think. This results in a variety of implicatures.