English Explanatory Dictionary

Gricean maxims

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A set of four maxims of cooperative conversation, those being quantity (adequately succinct statements), quality (truthful statements), relation (statements pertinent to the conversation at hand), and manner (comprehensible statements), that describe tacit rules observed by all interlocutors.

Word forms

Gricean maxims the Gricean maxims Grice's maxims

Etymology

First described by British philosopher Paul Grice in his 1967 lectures.

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