試題詳解

17.Which of the following about the Cooperative Principle is INCORRECT?
(A) A theory proposed by philosopher Paul Grice analyzed how implicatures arise in discourse.
(B) The primary underlying assumption that people make in a conversation is that no discourse participants act to accomplish conversational goals.
(C) Grice described four maxims that might be the basis of many conversations: the Maxim of Quality, Maxim of Quantity, Maxim of Relation, and Maxim of Manner.
(D) The Maxim of Quality says that in a conversation, people say what they believe to be true and only say what they have sufficient evidence.