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4.0 Preliminaries The present chapter has been devoted to the application of concept of conversational implicature to Chetan Bhagat’s novel The Three Mistakes of My Life. The analysis of conversational passages has been carried out on the basis of analytical model which has been incorporated in Chapter III. Analytical model, as illustrated in Chapter III, includes certain steps of analysis which start with selection of the conversational pieces, followed by inclusion of contextual setting, drawing implicature behind conversation and furnishing concluding comments etc. 4.1 Analysis of Conversational Implicature Conversational Exchange 1 Contextual Background Ishaan asks Govind to help his sister Vidya in Mathematics. She is studying for medical …show more content…

Govind replies that he has seen the sign. His response should have been ‘yes’ but he violates maxim of relation and indirectly suggests Ali’s father that they have seen the sign and from that sign they come to know that he belongs to secular party. This expression indirectly agrees with Ali’s father. Govind also observed maxim of agreement here by implying that they know he belongs to secular party and the sign indicates that. Further, Ali’s father asks them to visit their party but Omi stands up quickly and in a loud voice rejects to visit the party. He violates a number of maxims at this point of time. First of all, he violates maxim of relation because his reply rejects the idea of visiting the party in an indirect way. It suggests that he should not have asked Omi to visit their party. On the other hand, it should have been ‘no’. Next he violates maxim of agreement by disagreeing with Ali’s father in an impolite way. He also violates maxim of quantity and tact as he responds more than required and it also impolitely insults Ali’s father respectively. Through this response he suggests that he should not convert them from other party to his party. Omi takes it personally because he belongs to other

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