46 in this episode refer to, knowledge of American conventions, knowledge of
relationship between characters and personality of relevant characters. All this would be summarized and presented in brief within the dialogue-by-dialogue
analysis. It is assumed that the cooperative principle is in effect throughout all the gathered
dialogues. What follows is the implicature analysis.
1. DIALOGUE NO.1 Context:
Brandon was in bed with his fiancé, Mindy, both not wearing much. Brandon had just called in sick for not having slept well, claiming to have cough, upset
stomach, and a fever. Mindy then got on top of Brandon playfully, kissing him all over his body throughout the dialogue. Cultural: people who are ill are often
stereotypically illustrated as having a bowl of chicken soup for nourishment.
Overview:
This dialogue between Brandon and Mindy contains a lot of use of sarcasm, where one thing spoken means exactly the opposite. What can be observed here is
how a request-acknowledgement format of speech is used as a charade to convey an altogether different content.
Implicatures:
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U01.1 Oh. So you weren’t lying. You’d be curled up in bed with a bowl of chicken soup even if you didn’t have a horny girl in your bed Flouted maxim of
quality Mindy spoke this sarcastic utterance with the knowledge that Brandon was not so
sick that he needed to not go to work – i.e. Brandon was skipping work. Her initial guess Brandon wasn’t lying when it was so obvious that he did sets up the
situation for a series of flouting of maxim of quality. Whatever follows her guess
will mean the exact opposite: She is saying that Brandon was lying in order to accompany the horny girl herself in his bed at the moment
. Mindy used the chicken soup illustration to further state her point: Brandon is far from being the
pathetic guy who is restricted to his bed. Her tone suggests that she spoke the
utterance in amusement of seeing Brandon lying to keep her company.
U01.2 Oh, that’s ok, because I have almost no interest in kissing you. Flouted
maxim of quality Mindy spoke this in response to Brandon’s cautious warning how kissing him
might infect Mindy. Considering that Mindy was kissing Brandon all over the place, before U01.2 was uttered, this was an obvious lie. This use of irony tells
Brandon that the opposite was true: Mindy wanted to kiss him and do other things as well and – in relevance to his warning – she would not care if she
got infected while doing it.
U01.3 Perfect Flouted maxim of quality
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him. This short acknowledgement is said as if to convey Brandon’s appreciation of Mindy accepting his request that they do not kiss. However, Brandon’s
playfulness when saying this indicate that he understood Mindy’s sarcasm and that he was just saying this to continue the charade that Mindy had set up when
she said that she did not want to kiss him. Brandon is in fact saying that he is happy that Mindy is not going to stop kissing him.
U01.4 Good Flouted maxim of quality Mindy is saying this in the same manner of thinking behind Brandon’s U01.3. She
is, in a manner of speaking, sealing the deal of an understanding between her and Brandon. Of course, since the understanding is a charade, what she is saying is
really the opposite: “Good, I will kiss you now”.
2. DIALOGUE NO.2 Context:
