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    Ironic utterances cannot be interpreted as meaning the opposite of what is said without violating the maxim of Manner.

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    • 1.The maxim of Manner requires speakers to be perspicuous and avoid obscurity.
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    • 2.Implying the opposite of what one says is less perspicuous than stating it explicitly.
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    • 3.Interpreting Don's utterance as conveying the opposite of its literal content treats the implicature as doing work that direct assertion could do more clearly.
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    • 1.Grice himself acknowledged that Manner governs how something is said, not whether implied content must match literal content.
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    • 2.Irony achieves perspicuity at the level of speaker meaning precisely by exploiting the marked contrast between literal and intended content.
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    • 3.A speaker who says 'What lovely weather' in a storm is maximally clear to competent hearers; no paraphrase would be more efficient given the rhetorical context.
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    • 1.Sperber and Wilson's echoic use theory shows irony communicates attitudes toward a proposition, not simply its negation, making 'opposite meaning' a misdescription.
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    • 2.If irony does not strictly implicate the opposite but rather expresses dissociative attitudes, then no violation of Manner is required to explain its interpretation.
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    Grice (1975: 30) recognized that his maxims may “clash”. When they do, there is no way to determine what is required for conformity to the Cooperative Principle. In the case of irony, for example, Manner clashes with Quality. When Don said “The weather’s lovely”, we cannot interpret him as meaning what he said because on that interpretation he would be violating Quality. But we cannot interpret him as meaning the opposite because then he would be violating Manner (Wilson & Sperber 2012: 18–9
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