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Floating a maxim
A cooperative speaker can intentionally disobey a
maxim, as long as he or the context provides
enough indicators for the hearer to notice it. It use
to indirectly convey information.eq: what a nice
!jacket Ronny
This can be a positive comment on Ronny's jacket
and here the maxim of quality obeyed or can be a
negative comment on his Jacket and the maxim of
quality disobeyed that when say it after the jacket
.was cutting
Now I will talk about implicature which means
what a speaker can imply, suggest or mean as
.distinct from what the speaker literally says