Apply Grice’s cooperative principle and the four maxims to the conversation.
- Where do you see examples of quantity, quality, relation, and manner? Where do you see any of the maxims violated?
- Apply Lakoff’s rules of politeness to the conversation.
- Where are they maximized or violated? Do any utterances in the exchange provide examples of positive face, negative face, or face-threatening acts?
- Analyze two contextualization cues or discourse markers that contribute to the speakers’ meaning(s).
- Evaluate two rhetorical strategies used by the speakers that contribute to their persuasiveness.
- Assess the ways in which the discourse is a performance or a verbal art.
- Consider the aesthetic nature of the discourse and of the hearer’s response.
- Evaluate the interplay between intention and interpretation in the conversation.
- What is each speaker’s intention? Is the speaker interpreted correctly? Why or why not?
The post Apply Grice’s cooperative principle appeared first on My Assignment Online.
