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Publication details [#56323]

Ephratt, Michael. 2012. “We try harder” – Silence and Grice’s cooperative principle, maxims and implicatures. Language & Communication 32 (1) : 62–79.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | communicative effect | cooperative principle | discursive practice | silence

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper shows that, like speech, verbal silence can sometimes help communication, in accordance with the cooperative principle, and sometimes hinder it. These results foreground the active role of verbal silence in communication.