The cooperative announced last week that due to increasing sales in the tri-county area, it would distribute a quarterly dividend of more than twice the usual amount to all of its members.
英译中:Cooperative buying
An agricultural cooperative wants to sell more of its less popular vegetables, zucchini in particular. A consultant has suggested that the cooperative’s farmers should attempt to market a purple form of zucchini instead of the conventional green form, because people generally dislike green-colored vegetables.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the accuracy of the consultant’s assertion?
Only when a maxim under Cooperative Principle is blatantly violated and the hearer knows that it is being violated, do conversational implicatures arise.