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knew could explain it.
The humour of the utterance is overcome by House’s critical and fatalistic attitude that clears up the fog once again that he is not “nice”.
5. DIALOGUE NO.5 Context:
Mindy had an argument earlier with Chase and Foreman in Brandon’s room where she impulsively accused the doctors of not knowing what they were doing.
Foreman then explained to Mindy that what they were doing was necessary, that they needed to know what was wrong with Brandon first before they can provide
accurate treatments. U05.1 occurred after Mindy catches up to Chase afterwards, apologizing by explaining that she does stupid things when she is scared. She then
reveals to Chase that she was afraid that she was the one who caused Brandon to fall sick. Sports context: Rock climbing is a very dangerous sport that is well-
known to have claimed lives of careless climbers.
Overview:
One would need to know the dangers of rock climbing to understand why Chase spoke U05.1 and related that with Mindy’s statement.
Implicature Analysis: U05.1 Don’t go rock climbing. Flouted the maxim of relevance
There nothing in what Mindy says that suggests that she was going rock climbing or that she was at all interested with the sport, making U05.1 quite irrelevant.
However, Mindy understood the danger of rock climbing and related Chase’s U05.1 with her expressed tendency of doing stupid things when she’s scared and
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comes to the realization that Chase is trying to make a joke: with her personality, she would die a very gruesome death if she went and did an
intense sport like rock climbing and got scared and did something stupid. The
reason she did not respond to the joke was because she was thinking about something really serious that she needed to ask Chase about.
6. DIALOGUE NO.6 Context:
This conversation took place in the clinic in the exam room 1 that house was assigned to. Jodi was sitting on the bed, looked a little bit nervous, but was okay
throughout her consultation with House regarding the colour of her mucus. House was standing across her looking at her file and talking to her in a conversational
tone. Jodi’s expression became apprehensive after Houses U06.1.
Overview:
This dialogue portrays how people can carry a conversational tune and yet have a diverse intention. Here we see how House politely engages Jodi, and then reveals
his contempt of her in the end. House spoke U06.1 after Jodi revealed that she thought that she was okay now, considering that her change in mucus colour
occurred the previous week, in response to House telling her that she should be worried.
Implicature Analysis: U06.1 And yet, here you are. What happened? Paramedics took a week to
respond to your 911 call? Flouted the maxim of quality
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however, the guess could not have been what he was really thinking seeing that it is too implausible to be an actual guess. House was actually setting up a humorous
and dramatic situation with his guess, and anything that could make Jodi’s decision to come to PPTH look ridiculous will suffice. Jodi understood that House
was just using the guess to show his contempt at her, which was why her response to him afterwards the statement, “You’re not a very nice doctor, are you?”. House
deliberately used a concerned tone in guessing that Jodi called the paramedics to deal with mucus and actually waited a whole week to further exaggerate this
mockery of Jodi being overly dramatic.
7. DIALOGUE NO.7 Context:
