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as far as inappropriately and unethically reaching to Cuddy at home and at wee hours.
17. DIALOGUE NO.17 Context:
House and his team are inside Houses office. House had brought the differential board into his office and is making his explanation from beside the board. Chase
is sitting in Houses chair, Cameron is leaning on Houses desk, and Foreman is on the chair across Houses desk. House has gathered them to announce that he has
found the cause for Brandons sickness, which was poisoning from a gout medication called Colchicine. When Chase asks House how Brandon could have
gotten colchicine when he did not have gout, House started speaking U17.1. Character context: Cough medicines that are commonly available generally do not
cost 200.
Overview:
The flouting here can only be spotted when one is closely attuned to the context of the illustration that House was giving the diagnostics team. Anyone lacking in
pragmatic competence will simply become mislead by House’s story regarding the motivation of the doctor he was illustrating hence making this a maxim
violation although House clearly does not have any intention to mislead anyone with U17.1.
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Implicature Analysis: U17.1 First, he got a cough. Now, because he’s an idiot, he went to a doctor.
In order to justify charging 200, the doctor felt he should actually do something. Oops. He wrote a prescription. Flouts maxim of
quality
The team knows that Brandon is not an idiot. However, going to see the doctor due to having a cough does seem to display a lack of common sense. House
exaggerates this fact and uses it to validate his “He’s an idiot” comment. He
therefore flouts the maxim of quality here in order to deliver a mockery .
Another flouting also occurs when House emphatically describes the doctor as trying to justify charging 200 by writing a prescription for Brandon. There is, in
fact, nothing wrong with doctors writing prescriptions, since it is actually part of what they are expected to do, but charging 200 dollars for a cough medicine
prescription is simply daylight robbery. The flouting here is seen, therefore, by
House using the emphatic tone when describing the doctor despite of everyone
in the room knowing that the doctor was a must have been a cheat. Considering also that no cough medicine cost 200, the illustration therefore casts the
suspicion on whether or not the cough medicine prescribed was really cough medicine – providing room for the plausibility of the doctor having prescribed
colchicines instead. The discrepancies in U17.1 communicates to the team that
House was actually mocking the doctor he was describing for overcharging patients by prescribing dubious medicine, which in this case is possibly
colchicines, for personal profit. Keeping in mind that U17.1 is essentially a
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hypothetical illustration, this meant that House’s mocking is a portrayal of his contempt at doctors who overcharge and not at any doctors in particular.
18. DIALOGUE NO.18 Context:
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