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U12.4 Wouldn’t want to prescribe a lozenge if there was any doubt about its efficacy, huh? Flouts maxim of quality and relevance
U12.4 immediately comes off as very strange as people generally do not need prescriptions to obtain throat lozenges. Efficacy of a lozenge is also not something
that people generally cares about, so doubting it simply makes one seem hypercritical. This utterance also seems to have no relevance whatsoever with its
preceding utterance, although a second look will quickly reveal the lozenge as being relevant to the sore throat
. U12.3 sheds some light to the context of this utterance. In relevance to House using U12.1 and U12.3 to put himself in the
position of the ideal doctor, Cuddy makes House’s image of an ideal doctor sound extra fussy to mock back at House. This shift from protest to mockery
indicates that Cuddy’s amusement of having played into House’s silly prank is greater than her resentment.
13. DIALOGUE NO.13
Context:
Previously, after Brandons kidney failed, there was an argument between house and Foreman about Brandons diagnosis. House asserts that Brandon could have
caught two illnesses hypothyroidism and sinus infection – which meant that the kidney failure was not caused by the antibiotics they were giving Brandon – and
Foreman thought that it was viral infection, and managed to get the diagnostics team to work with him in the lab testing for Viruses. It was then that House came
to them and told them to check on Brandons urine and talk to him afterwards.
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revealed that the kidney failure was not caused by the antibiotics. House spoke U13.1 after Foreman asks House how he knew that.
Overview:
This utterance seems only to be useful for messing with its hearer. It resembles a prank more than anything, in which the purpose of the utterance is achieved when
it manages to confound or annoy the hearer.
Implicature Analysis: U13.1 I was sitting by his bed all morning, just so he’d know someone was
there for him. Flouts maxim of quality
U13.1 was something that Foreman would never believe, considering Foreman knows how much House hates dealing with patients personally. U13.1 is describes
a caring and attentive doctor who would put a lot of attention on patients’ emotional well-being, something which Foreman knows House detests. House did
not use it to deceive Foreman, therefore, although it does seem to lack any
perceivable purpose. The most accurate inference here would be that House was just flouting the truth by saying U13.1 to mess with foreman.
14. DIALOGUE NO.14 Context:
House was having a conversation with Foreman in House’s office, and Wilson was present. House had just gloated to Foreman over the fact that he was right and
Foreman was wrong over a diagnosis, which was obviously unnerving to
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friendlier person and would not have appreciated House’s attitude towards the doctors working under him.
Overview:
U14.1 demonstrates how one mentions the obvious opposite to humorously deliver a sarcastic remark. U14.2 demonstrates how one could deliberately fail to
grasp a sarcastic remark and extend the humour of a conversation.
Implicature Analysis: U14.1 That smugness of yours really is an attractive quality. Flouts maxim of
quality House knows that Wilson would have been a mindless admirer to find his gloating
attractive – which also meant that anybody finding House’s smugness attractive is pretty mindless. What was more likely, which in fact is also what Wilson really
wanted to convey, was opposite: House’s smugness is quite unattractive for House’s team. Wilson portraying smugness as attractive also adds humour to
his utterance.
U14.2 Thank you. It was either that or get my hair highlighted. Smugness is easier to maintain. Infringes maxim of relevance, flouts maxim of
quality
House expounds U14.1 on the point of “smugness as attractive” and mentions hair highlighting as the more difficult alternative, causing smugness to be more
preferable. On the surface, U14.2 seems to indicate that House failed to comprehend the implicature of U14.1, even thanking Wilson for making the
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argument that smugness is as attractive as hair highlighting is deliberately absurd. In other words, House was purposely showing failure to grasp the implicature of
U14.1 and extending the absurdity of Wilson’s statement. This was done most likely specifically to extend the humour established by Wilson.
15. DIALOGUE NO.15 Context:
