What is the Cooperative Principle? Please make an analysis of what maxim is violated by B and what implicature is produced in the following conversation. A: The speaker is an awful bore. Don’t you think? B: The lecture hall is spacious, isn’t it? （This is said when it is known to both A and B that it is entirely possible for B to make a comment on the speaker.）
【正确答案】：(1) In making conversation ,the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate otherwise ,it would not be possible for them to carry on the talk.(2)By saying something irrelevant to what A has just said ,B violates the maxim of relation.(3)The implicature produced is “I don’t wish to talk about the speaker in such a manner ”.
