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• Maxim of quality
  ...of the four conversational maxims of the cooperative principles. The maxim of quality requires information provided in conversations to be authentic and * [[Maxim of manner]]
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• Gricean maxims
  ...nicative principles that were proposed by [[H.P. Grice]] as an elaboration of his [[Cooperative Principle]]. He distinguished four categories, with sever '''Quantity'''
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• Maxim of relevance
  ...partner’s contribution to be appropriate to immediate needs at each stage of the transaction". ...tion if U can be interpreted as contributing to the conversational goal(s) of speaker or hearer". Leech states that the speaker strives for a certain goa
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• Maxim of manner
  The '''maxim of manner''' is one of the Gricean [[conversational maxim]]s which constitute the [[Cooperative Principle]]. It makes the following r ** Avoid obscurity of expression.
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• Implicature
  ...calar implicatures, where a weaker term on a scale implicates the negation of a stronger term. (i) John ate some of the chocolates
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