Maxim of Quality:
I purchased flowers to plant in our flowerbed at home a few days ago. This is the conversation my husband and I had in regards to the flowers:
My husband: Why did you buy flowers to plant?
Me: I am hoping to do it tomorrow and I was passing the nursery.
My husband: Yeah you’ll plant flowers during the week and monkeys will fly.
The Maxim violated is Quality.
The reason it is violated is because my husband is saying something completely untrue. Monkeys can’t fly. By adding the word yeah to his comment that is not true he is stating that the flowers won’t be planted in the flowerbed this week. J I will now set out to prove him wrong!
Signaled: Sake of humor and tone of voice. My husband was expressing how he would of appreciated me not buying the flowers until I was ready to plant them since I am really good at killing flowers.
Maxim of Manner:
I had to help interview candidates for an office coordinator position last week. My husband asked me the following question and I responded:
My husband: When will you be home tonight?
Me: I will be home after the last interview and the officers say it is okay for my presentence to be dismissed from the premise.
The Maxim violated is Manner.
The reason it was violated was because I used unnecessarily words to answer a simple question. I was trying to be confusing.
Signaled: Tone of voice, I am sure it came across as rude because he asked me a simple questions and I answered back with a long confusing answer.
Maxim of Relation:
My sister was being goofy and said something crazy. This is what we said to her:
My little sister: I need to drive my car to the park across the street to workout.
Me: Good thing you are the pretty sister!
The Maxim violated is Relation.
The reason it is violated is because I went off topic. My little sister is saying something crazy like driving over to the park across the street to work out. Why not just walk or run over there and then workout. I was talking about it is a good thing she is pretty because her idea was crazy. So I was talking about her looks instead of her idea to drive over.
Signaled: Sake of humor and tone of voice. I didn’t want to tell my sister she was being lazy to drive over to the park to workout. When she could of just walked over.
Maxim of Quantity:
I started teaching summer school the other day and I asked my students to think of questions to have me answer. One student asked me the following question:
My one student: Do you have any pets?
Me: I have two tiny baby dogs.
The Maxim violated: Quantity.
The reason is it violated is because you need to say your strongest statement first. The way I answered it is it that I have two pets or do I have two tiny baby dogs. I should have said I have two dogs and a fish.
Signaled: I do not think I signaled for this one. I think there was no signal because I was just answering a question.
I believe we use body language a lot more then we even realize it so I am sure there was body language involved in all of these conversations as well. J
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