83 House then no longer gets obsessed about his theory of cough medicine –
colchicine mix up indicates that this implicature is well conveyed perfectly.
20. DIALOGUE NO.20 Context:
This dialogue was still taking place in House’s office, the same as in Dialogue 19. House took a few contemplative moments before uttering U20.3.
Overview:
Dialogue 20 is very much influenced by dialogue 19. The ego jabs delivered clearly compelled House to use self-deprecating words in U20.1. The irony in
both U20.1 and U20.2 also must be understood to appropriately see the relevance of U20.3.
Implicature Analysis: U20.1 Well, we foolishly ruled out lymphoma because his CT scan showed no
adenophathy, CBC showed a normal diffen smear, bone marrow showed no –
Flouts maxim of quality None of the information House mentioned that lead him and his team to rule out
lymphoma was foolish. It actually gave very strong ground for ruling out lymphoma, so why call it foolish? This discrepancy is actually deliberate,
resulting in a sarcastic irony that actually validates House’s decision. He was, in
fact, arguing that it would be foolish to think that it was lymphoma, considering Brandons test results.
In other words, House was also saying that since House had not been foolish, then Wilson must have been the foolish one for
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subtle mockery is also Houses way to playfully get back at Wilson for having gloated over Houses mistake with the ego jabs.
U20.2 Yeah, you’re right. Let’s stick with the wrong pill theory. Flouts
maxim of quality Wilson was telling house to ignore the tests and was advising House to do a
procedure which House then explained as very risky. Wilson spoke U20.2 which sticks out like a sore thumb, since House sticking to the wrong pill theory despite
the reality of things is exactly what Wilson was mocking about with U19.1 and U19.2. Following the advice given in U20.2 would be utterly foolish. House
understood that Wilsons sarcasm-wrapped message was that he would not achieve anything if he did not move on from his wrong pill theory to the
procedure that Wilson was proposing.
U20.3 I’ll schedule him for surgery. Flouts maxim of relevance
U20.2 was an advice to stick to the wrong pill theory. Without understanding the implicature of U20.2, U20.3 would only look like House is being irrelevant to
Wilson earlier utterance. However, since the implicature of U20.2 is that House would only be able to find his answers if he moved on to the risky procedure, then
U20.3 became relevant. After some contemplation on Wilson’s words, House spoke U20.3 to show his agreement to go with Wilsons proposed surgery
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21. DIALOGUE NO.21 Context:
