[简答题]Directions: Answer the following questions.What is the Cooperative Principle? Please make an analysis of what maxim is violated by B and what implicature is produced in the following conversation.
A: The speaker is an awful bore. Don't you think?
B: The lecture hall is spacious, isn't it?
(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 speaker.)

正确答案:

(1)In making conversation, the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate; otherwise, it would not be possible for them to carry on the talk.
(2)By saying something irrelevant to what A has just said, B violates the maxim of relation.
(3)The implicature produced is "I don't wish to talk about the speaker in such a manner".

题目解析

(1)在进行对话时,参与者首先必须愿意合作,否则就不可能继续谈话。
(2)B说一些与A刚才所说的无关的话,违反了关系准则。
(3)产生的会话含义是:“我不想以这样的方式谈论演讲者”。

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