Question 1. Give 3 utterances including hedges and explain which Gricean Maxims the speakers violate in each utterance.

There were more or less 100 people at the theater.

In short, we broke up.

I assume he´s not coming.

Explanation:

The Hedges are in bold.

The Gricean Maxims are:

Maxim of Quantity: a contribution should be as informative as necessary for the exchange.

Maxim of quality: do not say what you believe to be false or something of which you lack adequate evidence.

Maxim of relation: provide only relevant information.

Maxim of manner: avoid vagueness and ambiguity, be brief and orderly.

The first two sentences infringe the Maxim of Quantity because the hedges reflect a lack of detail in the information provided, meaning that information necessary for the exchange is missing.

The third sentence infringes the Maxim of quality because an assumption is information based on no evidence.

- "d.)  describe the iroquois belief of how the earth was created. for the iroquois, there was no reason to explain the importance of rituals. also, as animists, they didn't need a special elaboration as to why animals are important or why they had a crucial role in the earth's creation. this is just an authentic myth that explains the creation of the earth. every culture has produced creation myths."

second person

explanation:

note the heavy uses of "you", "your", as well as "he".

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