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Publication details [#39072]

Giora, Rachel. 1988. On the informativeness requirement. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (4) : 547–565.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

informativeness | text, production of

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper considers the dynamics of concept formation to explain the opposing constraints on text formation as postulated by Grice's (1975) maxims of Quantity and Relation.