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Publication details [#53607]

Danziger, Eve. 2010. On trying and lying: Cultural configurations of Grice's Maxim of Quality. Intercultural Pragmatics 7 (2) : 199–219.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This study discusses to what extent Grice's Maxim of Quality is valid in the cultural model of utterance interpretation among the Mopan Maya of Eastern Central America, which doesn't refer to utterer intention.