The document provides questions to guide students on chapter 5 about cooperation and implicature in pragmatics. It lists 6 questions about expressions, implicatures, the cooperative principle and its maxims, hedges, and types of implicatures. Students are told the questions do not need to be submitted but should be kept in their files, and the professor will be available for discussion during regular class time.

1. Pragmatics
October 10 th
, 2013

2. Dear Students,
As I told you last Monday, these
are the questions that are going to
guide chapter 5: cooperation and
implicature.
The questions do not have to be sent.
Keep them in your files.

3. Ch. 5
Cooperation and
implicature
George yule

4. Question # 1
Expressions like «Business is
business» are called
______________.
What does the speaker intend to
do with this type of expression?

5. Question # 2
What do implicatures refer
to?

6. Question # 3
When the author talks about
cooperative principle, he
proposes four subprinciples
called maxims. Name and
explain them.

7. Question # 4
What do hedges consist
on?

8. Question # 5
The author states that there are
hedges for each maxim. Give one
example of each one.
Quality:
Quantity:
Relation:
Manner:

9. Question # 6
Which are the two types of
implicatures? Mention the main
characteristic that identifies each
one..

10. The following videos are for you
to have a clear idea of what
maxims consist on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRMgGCN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI9tFOcVn

11. Remember that I will be at the
office at the time we have class to
discuss about these topics.
Hope to see you there.
Regards,
Clara