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prior to them, as in U08.1.
Utterances: U02.1, 02.5, U02.6, U05.1, U08.1, U10.1, U12.2, U12.3, U12.4,
U16.1, U16.4, U16.6, U16.7, U18.1, U18.3, U19.1, U20.3, U22.1
Count: 18 utterances
3. Maxim of Quantity
Utterances that flout the maxim of quantity in “Occam’s Razor” generally do so by being far too brief, containing less literal information than what ought to be.
However, upon analysis, these utterances were actually capable of conveying more information beyond the uttered words. While determining implicatures in a
relevance-flouting utterance is more like a process of “filling in the blanks”, determining the implicatures of a quantity-flouting utterance is more like
guesswork, where the things not spoken are conveyed by contexts surround the utterance.
Utterances that are longer than its actual message are meant to convey both the message with certain affective feel. U21.3 is such an utterance. It conveys, in
addition to the core message, a false info that “not sick” is a technical term, purely to create humour.
Utterances: U10.1, U11.1, U12.1, U12.2, U.12.3, U16.1, U16.2, U16.4, U16.5,
U16.7, U18.2, U18.3, U19.2, U21.1, U21.3, U22.1, U23.1
Count: 17 utterances
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4. Maxim of Manner
Utterances flouting the maxim of manner in “Occam’s Razor” are those that are deliberately made in an unclear way. Characters sometimes deliberately define
things not as what it is supposed to be, but as something else with a particular meaning to the hearers. House, for example, in U2.01, defined Wilson’s
description of a patient as a “con”, and only would Wilson know what House was referring to. Wilson also mentioned that “not sick” is a technical term to add
humour to his utterance in U21.3. Utterances can also flout this by maxim by saying one thing and then not
acknowledging it. In U15.1, House told Foreman what caused his patient’s ailment, and then he said that he did not know what cause the patient’s ailment.
Utterances: U.02.1, U02.2, U15.1, U21.2, U21.3, U23.1
Count: 6 utterances
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION
A. Conclusion
This research is dedicated to study maxim floutings by studying the floutings that occurred in the American prime time television series House, M.D.,
on the episode “Occam’s Razor”. Two research questions are therefore formulated to guide this study: 1 What are the maxim-flouting utterances in House, M.D.?,
and 2 What are the implicatures of those maxim-flouting utterances? Answers to both questions are given in-depth in chapter IV. The first
question was answered as the study identified the 49 utterances that have flouted various maxims within the 21 dialogues gathered from the episode “Occam’s
Razor” the full list is provided in the appendix. The dialogues gathered make up
about 5 minutes or approximately 11 percent of the 42-minute episode. The second question is answered as the study performed comprehensive implicature-
analysis on each of the 49 utterances. This study runs on the understanding that the nature of implicature is that
what is conveyed via the maxim flouting and what is understood is essentially identical. This understanding allows the implicature analysis to provide credible
insights as to how characters of House, M.D. and, consequently, the people tuning in to watch the show – all 6.33 million of them on the episode’s premiere –
process and shape utterances.
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