Chapter 4
Principles guiding communication
The role of implicature
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Two models of communication
- 3.Gricean principles guiding communication
- 3.1The Cooperative Principle and the maxims of conversation
- 3.2The Maxims of Quantity
- 3.3The Maxims of Quality
- 3.4The Maxim of Relation (Relevance)
- 3.5The Maxims of Manner
- 4.Reducing the number of maxims: Neo-Gricean approaches and Relevance Theory
- 4.1A sketch of Levinson’s and Horn’s models
- 4.2The Principle of Relevance
- 5.In lieu of a conclusion: The influence of cultural practices on maxims of conversation
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