For example, answering " It's raining " to someone who has suggested playing a game of tennis only disrespects the maxim of relation on the surface; the reasoning behind this " fragment " sentence is normally clear to the interlocutor ( the maxim is just " flouted " ).
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For example, if Alice points out that Bill is not present, and Carol replies that Bill has a cold, then there is an implicature that the cold is the reason, or at least a possible reason, for Bill's absence; this is because Carol's comment is not cooperative does not contribute to the conversation unless her point is that Bill's cold is or might be the reason for his absence . ( This is covered specifically by the maxim of relation .)