Kasdi Merbah University - Ouargla

Faculty of Letters and Languages

Department of Letters and English Language
Course: Linguistics Instructor: Mr. BENCHEIKH. Y
Time Allotted: 90 minutes Level: 3rd Year LMD Academic Year: 2019/2020

Sixth Semester

Lesson 03 : Cooperation and Implicature

Note : This is JUST an outline. Please refer to the powerpoint presentation

(S6:Discourse Analysis for Third Year Students 2020 ) for further explanation.

Outline
1. The cooperative Principle of Conversation
1.1 Quantity Maxism
1.2 Quamity Maxim
1.3 Relation Maxim
1.4 Manner Maxim
1.5. Hedges and (Q.Q.R.M) Maxims
1.6 Flouting and Violating Maxims
2. Conversational implicature
2.1 Generalized Conversational Implicature
2.2 Scalar Implicature
2.3 Particularized Conversational Implicature
3. Properties of Conversational Implicature
3.1 Calculated
3.2 Suspended
3.3 Cancelled
3.4 Reinforced

Required Readings :
1. Chapter 05 : Cooperation and Implicature (pp35-46) in Yule, G (1996) Pragmatics .
Oxford : Oxford University Press
2. Chapter 03 : Discourse and Pragmatics (pp52-81) in Paltridge, B (2006) Discourse
Analysis : An Introduction. New York : Continuum Discourse