19 ADRRI JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES E-ISSN: 2343-6891 VOL. 17, No. 7(5), October, 2020-December, 2020 Published by Africa Development and Resources Research Institute ADRRI JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ADRRI JOURNALS (www.adrri.org) E-ISSN: 2343-6891 VOL. 17, No. 7 (5), October, 2020- December, 2020 Analysis of Implicature of a Vice Chancellor’s Speech through the Gricean Conversational Maxim Lenses: A Case of a Selected Ghanaian Technical University Ramos Asafo-Adjei 1 , Mary Akossey 2 , and Uriah Stonewell Tetteh 3 1,2 Centre for Languages and Liberal Studies, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana 1 Email: ramos.asafo-adjei@tpoly.edu.gh 2 Email: mary.akossey@ttu.edu.gh 3 Liberal Studies Department, Cape Coast Technical University, Cape Coast, Ghana 3 Email: ustetteh@yahoo.co.uk 1 Correspondence: ramos.asafo-adjei@tpoly.edu.gh Available Online: 31 st December, 2020 URL: https://www.journals.adrri.org/ Abstract Implicature is a vital ingredient that fosters the understanding of utterances between interlocuters. This study analysed the implicature of the speech of the Vice Chancellor of the Meedy Technical University through the Gricean Conversational Maxim lenses. The qualitative research method (specifically, the single case study design) was employed for this study. The data was in the form of the Vice Chancellor’s investiture speech delivered in 2019. O’Leary’s (2014) eight steps of conducting document analysis was followed to analyse the speech. It was found that Grice’s maxims of Quality, Quantity and Manner were violated in the Vice Chancellor’s speech, albeit the implicatures of the message were understood by the audience because of setting, time and culture. Keywords: Ghana, implicature, investiture speech, technical university, vice chancellor [Cite article as: Asafo-Adjei, R., Akossey, M. and Tetteh, U. S. (2020). Analysis of Implicature of a Vice Chancellor’s Speech through the Gricean Conversational Maxim Lenses: A Case of a Selected Ghanaian Technical University. ADRRI Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, Ghana: Vol. 17, No.7 (5), Pp.19-45, E-ISSN: 2343- 6891, 31st December, 2020.] Received: (August 29, 2020) Accepted: (December 31, 2020)