cvi statement, which is categorized as mistaken identity has infringed all of
the maxims.
2.7. RELAPSE Data15Relapse
Joey has an approach to Rachel as he knows that she likes him in his show. That makes Rachel very delighted. She never thinks before that
her idol star would like to invite her to his studio. While Joey, who is actually a playboy, uses this chance to have a date with her as Rachel is a
beautiful girl. Here, he tries to imitate the character he plays in the film in order to impress Rachel. Joey imitates what Dr. Drake Remoray, the film
character, usually does to attract the women. Yet, as Rachel always watches every show of it, she can remember that Joey’s words are one of
the lines from Dr. Drake’s dialogues. However, Joey does not give up. He still tries to say other sentences to attract Rachel, but Rachel still can find
out that it is one of the lines from the show. Finally Joey gives it up by saying that Rachel watches too much. Here, Rachel has observed the
maxim of quality as she knows well about the film. She can argue Joey’s words because she watches the show very often. However, the maxim of
relation is not followed by her since she overtly changes the subject of what Joey intends to do. She also flouts the maxim of quantity by giving
less information in order to implicate that she knows that Joey is only appealing her. However, she seems to observe the maxim of manner as she
cvii has tried to implicate that she knows Joey is only appealing her by giving a
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Phoebe stays in the hospital as she has a heart attack. Although she has got a heart attack, she still cannot stand to leave her bad habit, that is
smoking. When her friends are not waiting for her, she goes to the bathroom and smokes there. Fortunately, Monica and Candler come and
see that there is a smoke coming out from the bathroom. Poebe tries to cover her attitude by saying that the smoke is one of the side effect of the
illness. Certainly, Monica does not believe it and realizes that Phoebe must be smoking. She orders her to turn off the cigarette and gets out of the
bathroom. However, Phoebe still tries to convince her that the smoke is coming out of her body. That makes Monica annoyed then comes into the
bathroom and pulls the cigarette out of Phoebe. From the interpretation above, it is clear that Phoebe has violated the maxim of quality to hide her
bad attitude. As an unwell patient, she should not smoke at such condition. However, she cannot leave it although she was still sick. Therefore, when
Monica is catching her smoking, she tries to hide it by giving wrong answer. Phoebe also violates the maxim of relation as well. She gives an
irrelevant answer to Monica’s answer. Further, the first maxim of manner is violated by her as well because she gives an obscure answer and she
violates the maxim of quantity as she generates intentionally the misleading implicature by giving less information. In conclusion, when
cviii Phoebe does the relapse, she violates all of the maxims. She wants to
mislead her friends about what she is actually doing.
2.8. REPARTEE Data10Repartee
