Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gricean maxims

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gricean -max-ims
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

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A set of four maxims of cooperative conversation, those being quantity (adequately succinct statements), quality (truthful statements), relation (statements pertinent to the conversation at hand), and manner (comprehensible statements), that describe tacit rules observed by all interlocutors.

Example Sentences

"In order to flout all Gricean maxims at once, tell an excessively long lie about a topic irrelevant to the conversation at hand in a language not understood by the person you're talking to."

Etymology

First described by British philosopher Paul Grice in his 1967 lectures.

Inflected Forms

the Gricean maxims (canonical, plural) Grice's maxims (alternative)

Questions

What does gricean maxims mean?: A set of four maxims of cooperative conversation, those being quantity (adequately succinct statements), quality (truthful statements), relation (statements pertinent to the conversation at hand), and manner (comprehensible statements), that describe tacit rules observed by all interlocutors.
Where does gricean maxims come from?: First described by British philosopher Paul Grice in his 1967 lectures.

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