【正确答案】正确答案：In order to specify the Cooperative Principle further, Grice introduced four categories of maxims. The first is the quantity maxim:(1)Make your contribution as informative as is required;(2)do not make your contribution more informative than is required.(2 points)Sentences like " Well, boys are boys. " seem to violate the first quantity maxim. At the superficial level, the level of what is said, the sentence is totally uninformative. But when people hear this sentence, he/she should think that the speaker must convey something when he/she says it. Then the listener will think that the speaker is implying something with this sentence and think about it at a deeper level, the level of what is implicated, and the sentence is informative. It conveys the meaning that "Boys are naughty and mischievous by nature. "(3 points)

【答案解析】解析：考查合作原则及其四条准则。为了进一步具体说明合作原则，格赖斯引入了四条准则，其中第一条为数量(quantity)准则：(1)使所说的话正好满足当前交谈所需要的信息；(2)所说的话不要多于需要的信息。同义反复句是违背数量准则第一条次则的极端例子，如：Well，boys are boys(男孩就是男孩)。从表面上看，也就是从字面义上看，这个句子完全没有提供任何信息。但是从深层看，也就是从内在含义看，它提供了信息，表达了这样的含义：男孩的天性就是淘气、顽皮。