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Burt, Susan Meredith. 2002. Maxim confluence. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (8) : 993–1001.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This paper discusses maxim confluence, a type of interaction not discussed by Grice, but introduced by Myers-Scotton, in which two maxims enjoin the same speaker behavior, albeit for different motivations. Two examples of maxim confluence are presented, namely that of code choice among bilinguals with different native languages and choice of second person pronouns or address forms in different European languages.