The Cooperative Principle: Maxims of Conversation

An overview of Grice's maxims of conversation (quantity, quality, relation, and manner).

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[@evanashworth490]

I do have a couple neurolinguistics-related videos: "Psycholinguistics: Language and the Brain" and "Slips of the Tongue and Slips of the Ear", but I may try to create a dedicated video to neurolinguistics in the future. Thanks for watching!

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[@evanashworth490]

Hi Muhammad. I am honored by your request, but, unfortunately, I am not accepting new advisees at this time. Sorry about that!

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Hi Evan, I love your videos! Do you have any textbook recommendation on English grammar/linguistics 101 for learners who do not major in English? Thanks in advance! I hope u have a nice day

[@evanashworth490]

Hi Soraya! The introductory linguistics textbooks I might recommend would be The Study of Language by George Yule and Language Files (published by Ohio State University). I hope that helps!

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[@rappop7977]

Hello Man, Thanks for sharing this! By the way, which one of the followings is correct 1. Write the note neatly 2. write the note neat in the first example "neatly" is working as an adverb that how the note should be written. But I was wondering in the second example the adjective "neat" is used as an object complement that to state what the object "the note" has to become. but on the other hand, The second example sounds strange. Please help me with this that will make me so grateful to you.

[@evanashworth490]

Hello! Prescriptively, the first example is "correct", but for linguists, the second example is just fine, as both examples mean the same thing. I hope that helps!

[@aminayassin6508]

Nice 👌 thanks 😊 What about figures of speech, other than sarcasm, do they flout the maxims? Hyperbole, metaphor, personification...

[@evanashworth490]

This is a great question, and my feeling is that other figures of speech can but don't always flout a maxim. However, for example, if the speaker piles on too many metaphors, the meaning could be easily lost on the addressee, so that might constitute a flouting (or probably a violation) of the maxim of manner (namely, the speaker is not "clear"). I hope that helps!

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[@evanashworth490]

Hi Khulood. I will try to help!

[@khuloodahmed2437]

@@evanashworth490 What is the best model to follow in order to analyse intonation in terms of phono-pragmatic analysis. Furthermore, how can I design eclectic model concerning these two fields?

[@evanashworth490]

@@khuloodahmed2437 Whoa--sorry, that question is a bit outside my area of expertise, but I think you could use the transcription system devised by Jefferson and Schegloff which is used for conversation analysis. I'm not sure about your second question though, sorry.

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Thanks--the beginning of the semester here is hectic, but I hope to upload another video within a month. Thank you for being a subscriber!

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[@evanashworth490]

Hi, Mohammed! I'm not sure if it will help, but I have a video on several topics in semantics called "lexical semantics"

[@davidcuarzo1986]

La intencionalidad es definida en la tradición psicologista como una propiedad de la mente (o conciencia) que consiste en que sus estados (los estados de conciencia o mentales) están dirigidos hacia algo, se relacionen o traten acerca de algo, que es su contenido u objeto intencional. Pero este objeto intencional es algo exclusivamente mental, retengamos esto. El lenguaje se encarga de expresar solo ese contenido mental y no una realidad del mundo externa a la mente, con su valor de verdad o falsedad. Siempre que pienso, pienso algo. No es posible pensamiento sin contenido. Pero ¿cómo se relaciona este psicologismo con la filosofía del lenguaje de Grice? ¿Cómo se establece la relación significado-mente? Pues bien, de modo tradicional, el estudio de la mente y de los conceptos o contenidos mentales se ha basado en el estudio de su expresión en el lenguaje, en el análisis de cómo el lenguaje expresa los contenidos mentales: cómo decimos las cosas que pensamos, de qué modo las expresamos. En este sentido, para Grice existen dos elementos del lenguaje que cumplen el rol de ejes referenciales: 1) las oraciones de actitud proposicional y 2) los nombres comunes (o términos generales).

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Zaddy 🤩 (Was this a violation of the Maxim of Relation?)

[@evanashworth490]

This is actually a complicated question to answer. I had to look up what "zaddy" means, but if you mean to call me an attractive, older man (thanks!), then, I guess it's not entirely irrelevant because I just take it as a general compliment about the video. However, if you mean something else by "zaddy" (e.g., the sound a Cadillac makes when idling too low), then, yes, it would be a violation of the maxim of relation.

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[@evanashworth490]

Thanks! I've just moved toward shorter videos because we humans tend to have short attention spans.

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Hi! I'm not sure what you mean by "fuzzy expression"

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Thanks! These just take a lot of time to create.

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[@evanashworth490]

I have no plans to make a video on generative phonology, but I plan to make one on applied linguistics and, perhaps later on, one on cognitive linguistics.

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Hello there! I know I'm being late, but can someone here explain to me what it means to observe a maxim (and what is the non-observance of a maxim)? I don't understand that and I feel pretty stupid for that =-=

[@evanashworth490]

Hello. You're certainly not stupid! I describe the difference between violating and flouting a maxim in the video, and generally, non-observance of a maxim is either violating or flouting a maxim.

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[@evanashworth490]

Hello! I might suggest looking at Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method (1st edition) by Marianne W Jorgensen and Louise Phillips. I hope that helps!

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What’s the difference between relation and manner

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Relation: stick to the point (don't talk about something i don't ask you about ) Manner : be clear ( not ambiguous )

[@hayotgozal8804]

Quantity and manner looks similar to each other for me. Can you explain the difference with one example, please?

[@evanashworth490]

Sure! Consider the example below in which speaker A is a teacher and speaker B is a 3rd grader: A: Do you have any questions about multiplication tables? B: Does 8 times 8 = 36? A: I cannot divulge the answer but you should eschew obfuscation by consulting your textbook. In the third line, speaker A isn't necessarily speaking too much (violating maxim of quantity), but they are definitely violating the maxim of manner by using unnecessarily complex language with a child, which creates confusion. I hope that helps!

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[@evanashworth490]

Hello! Yes, Quirk can be difficult to read, and I think part of this has to do with the way Quirk writes and the time in which he was writing. I found it useful to have a strong grasp on a grammatical terminology (e.g., subordinate clauses, lexical categories).

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Hi. When a final syllable is cut off , we call is 'apocope,. When the initial syllable is cut ofd, we call it "'syncope' How to call when the middle syllable is cut off?

[@evanashworth490]

Hello! Syncope can also involve deletion from the middle of a word 🙂

[@rappop7977]

@@evanashworth490 My bad. I am not sure about the cutting off initial syllable. How do we call when the initial syllable is cut off?

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we contract is not as "isn't" and are not as "aren't". How do we contract am not is formal situation?

[@evanashworth490]

I suppose I would say, "I'm not..."

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I cannot make difference between flouting and violating maxims for All maxiems I have exams 😐can you explain it please

[@evanashworth490]

Briefly, "violating" a maxim means breaking the rule of the maxim, but "flouting" only appears to break the rule of the maxim (by creating an implication that the listener/reader must figure out).

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A) we'll all miss john and mary,won't we? B)well,we all miss john Which maxim is violated at this example ?

[@evanashworth490]

That looks like the maxim of manner is being flouted (not a serious violation to me) because the listener must use inference to determine that the speaker doesn't miss Mary.

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ADHD, aka we always flout the maxim of quantity.

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This dude is reading excerpts from George Yule's book "The study of language" 😆

[@evanashworth490]

Sure am! Also, from Language Files and A Concise Introduction to Linguistics. Covering content from introductory linguistics texts is one of the main purposes of this channel. Thanks for watching!

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