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Practising Gricean Analysis

Task C - Wild Thing

Below are the first two lines of the song 'Wild Thing' by the song writer Chip Taylor. 'Wild Thing' became a hit record for a group called The Troggs in 1966.

What maxim is flouted in line 2 and what implicature follows?

Wild thing
You make my heart sing

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