Maxims of Conversation

Grice's co-operative principles has how many maxims?

• One maxim

• Two maxims

• Three maxims

• Four maxims

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What are the maxim of quantity?

• Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity.

• Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither too little information nor too much.

• Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has been said before.

• Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believe corresponds to reality.

What it the maxim of quality?

• Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity.

• Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither too little information nor too much.

• Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has been said before.

• Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believe corresponds to reality.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is the maxim of relation?

• Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity.

• Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither too little information nor too much.

• Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has been said before.

• Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believe corresponds to reality.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is the maxim of manner?

• Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity.

• Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither too little information nor too much.

• Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has been said before.

• Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believe corresponds to reality.

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A speaker can be said to violate a maxim when ...

• they have an imperfect knowledge or performance of language.

• they seem unwilling to cooperate in the way the maxim requires.

• they appear not to follow the maxims but expect hearers to appreciate the meaning implied.

• they know that the hearer will not know the truth and will only understand the surface meaning of the words.

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is the difference between flouting and breaking?

• Flouting is intentional, breaking is accidental.

• Breaking is accidental, flouting is intentional

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which of these could be examples of flouting the maxims?

• Not understanding the question and giving the incorrect answer.

• Refusing to answer a question because you don't someone to know the truth.

• Lying to cover something up.

• Hearing the question wrong and giving an irrelevant answer.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which of these could be examples of breaking the maxims?

• Not understanding the question and giving the incorrect answer.

• Refusing to answer a question because you don't someone to know the truth.

• Lying to cover something up.

• Hearing the question wrong and giving an irrelevant answer.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which maxim did the linguist llama break?

• Maxim of Manner

• Maxim of Quality

• Maxim of Relevance

• Maxim of Quantity

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6