JOURNAL COOPERATION AND GENERALIZED CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE

4TH October

COOPERATION AND GENERALIZED CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE

The class was based on two presentations, the first one was about Cooperation and the second, which my partner and I had to exposed, was generalized conversational implicature.

There were interesting topics that we could use in every moment, any situation or context. Cooperation and contribution are very important in a conversation ; we always have to take into account the maxims of the Cooperative Principle, first we have to make sure that we are giving only the information required in our conversation, (quantity) also we have to say the truth or do not say information we think is false. (Quality). At least, we have to say the outstanding information and do not say the Confucius or obscurity information. (relation and manner).

We as listeners always expect that the speaker says the truth, gives the important and noticeable information, be cooperative and collaborate in order to the hearer infers the real meaning. This meaning depends in a context, if the person talks with their friends, family, boyfriend. Etc.

Implicature is an additional conveyed, suggested meaning that the speaker implies without directly expressing, in order to the listener infers that aspect of the meaning in the utterance.
·  There were the different types of implicatures studied: Conversational implicature, is the basic assumption in a conversation, unless otherwise indicated. The participants are adhering to the cooperative principle and the maxims.
Generalized conversational implicature, is a conversational implicature that is inferable without reference to a special context.
Scalar conversational implicature: When producing an expression, a speakers selects the word from the scale which is the most informative and truthful.
Particularized conversational implicature: is one which depends on particular features in a specific context.
Conventional implicatures:
They are not based on the cooperative principle of the maxims, they do not have to occur in a conversation, and they do not depend on special contexts for their interpretation.

For me both presentations were good, i felt that the students understood the topic and had an idea about implicatures and their types.