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Publication details [#26713]
Kurzon, Dennis. 1996. The maxim of quantity, hyponymy and Princess Diana. Pragmatics 6 (2) : 217–227.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
This paper illustrates the violation of the Gricean Quantity maxim in terms of hypynomy via the analysis of extracts from a BBC television interview with Princess Diana in 1995.