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Keenan, Elinor Ochs. 1976. The universality of conversational postulates. Language in Society 5 (1) : 67–80.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conversational implicature | conversational maxim | conversational postulate | culture | language universal | variability
Language as a subject
Malagasy
Person as a subject
Grice, P.H.
Journal WWW
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Annotation

Grice's theory of conversational maxims and implicatures is examined in the light of the Malagasy language and ways of speaking. It is shown that the Gricean analysis retains usefulness, but careful ethnological comparison is needed, due to some subtle cultural differences.