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X: Shall we get something for the kids?Y: Yes. But I veto C-A-N-D-Y. Y’s answer violates maxim of ____________.

A. quantity
B. quality
C. relation
D. manner

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The husband coming into the kitchen is a reaction to the___________act of the wife’s utterance in the living room “The kettle is boiling.”

A. illocutionary
B. perlocutionary
C. locutionary
D. none of the above

In specifying the maxim of manner in his CP theory, Grice mentioned all the following except "_________".

A. Be relevant
B. Avoid ambiguity
C. Be brief
D. Avoid obscurity of expression

Conversational implicature is a part of __________.

A. Phonetics
B. Semantics
C. Phonology
D. Pragmatics

The speech Act theory is developed by ___________.

A. Searle
B. Austin
C. Grice
D. Halliday

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