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急求解答语言学一道discussion题

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急求解答语言学一道discussion题
discussing the following linguistic phenominon,then write down you opinion on the answer sheet according to the following question.
The following coversation is between a couple when the wife Jenny and husband John are in the kitchen with their cat Felix.Which of the maxims of the Cooperative principle is flouted by the husband's utterance and what his conversational implicature.Wife:Where is my fish? Husband:Oh,the cat looks happy.
Quite obviously,The cat ate the fish ,so it looked so happy.The husband didn't dare to tell the truth to his wife because he was afraid to be shouted at by his wife.The purpose that the husband gave an irrelevant answer to his wife's question was to change the topic of conversation in order that his wife didn't get angry with the cat.