This video relates to the Chapter 4: The Meaning of Language because this videos shows the 4 principles of maxims of conversation. Maxims of conversation are conversational conventions that people appear to obey in verbal interactions. The video shows the maxim of truth, which states to not say what you believe to be false, the maxim of quantity which basically says to not make your contribution more or less informative than is required. The other two principles that it shows are the maxim of relation which states to be relevant and the last one which is the maxim of manner which deals with clarity.
This video is really funny and relevant to the chapter and it helped me in understanding the different principles dealing with maxims of conversation with entertaining examples.
Just for fun, here's some examples of the maxims of conversations in a couple comics.
Wow, haha. That video was pretty good. The phone call and the last bit were ones that I found pretty amusing. I had to hold back on the last clip, in the computer coms. The second comic you posted was pretty funny as well. It's interesting that we follow these rules, sometimes, usually, maybe? Without ever knowing that they exist or that there is terminology and classification for them. This was a good post. Keep it up.
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