试题题干
Directions：Answer the following questions.
Which maxim does B’s utterance in the following conversation violate? Does the violation give rise to conversational implicature? If it does, what is the implicature?
[A is talking with B about a film they have seen.]
A: The film was good. Don’t you think?
B: The music was nice.
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试题解析
在谈话中，B本可以简单地回答：“不”-这将在这种情况下提供尽可能多的信息。相反，B提供的信息比情况要求的要少。因此，B违反了量的准则。B的话语是一种礼貌的不同意A的方式，它的意思可能是“电影中除了音乐以外没有什么好东西。”