Pragmatics: rules of conversation
Conversational implicatures have become one of the principal subjects of pragmatics.Speakers sometimes deliberately violate the rules of ordinary conversation to achieve certain ends.Object of the course paper is the Cooperative principle and Maxims of conversation.The study of such conversational implicatures is the core of Grice's influential theory.(1) why speech errors are often ignored (or even go unnoticed) in conversation.So the CP is a mean to make conversation as is effective and efficient one.Flouting a maxim (major violation) to create a conversational implicature.Implication: By spelling the word ‘ice-cream’ B wants to make the conversation unclear for children.Bach, Kent, Conversational Impliciture. - Mind and Language -1994 - pp.124-162.Grice, H. Paul Further notes on logic and conversation. In P. Cole (ed.) - 1967.