Horn reformulated Grice’s CP into two principles: ____________ and the R-principle.

Language acquisition is primarily the acquisition of the vocabulary and the meaning of language.

_______ further increasing quantum-well（量子阱） number, the increase of the emission energy（发射能量） becomes slow.

Conversational implicatures are indeterminate. Different contexts may help to produce different implicatures for the same utterance. Think of some contexts in which “Boys are boys” convey different implicatures.

Which maxims does the speaker intend to opt out by using the following hedges? i. I don’t think I have sufficient evidence for this, but… ii. I’m not at liberty to say any more. iii. I know this is irrelevant, but… iv. This is a bit confused, but… v. S., to cut a long story short, vi. Not to change the topic, but… vii. I’m sure you already know this, but… viii. People say…

Levinson reformulated Grice’s CP into three principles: the Q-principle, the I-principle, and _____________.

The three processes that produce I-implicatures are _______________, mirror maxim and bridging.

What are the Q-implicatures of the following? (1) He can run 100m in 9.9 seconds. (2) He has cut down his smoking to ten cigarettes a day.

What are the I-implicatures of the following? (1) Mary ate the cake after dinner. (2) The police moved in and the suspects were arrested. (3) John and Mary went to the park in the afternoon. (4) Joan is reading two modern languages at Oxford. (5) His secretary talked learnedly about the internet.

Context is separable from language use.

In normal cases, the hearer is assumed to be the center of a speech event.