Single Idea 18044

[catalogued under 19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature]

Full Idea

Grice's maxim of manner requires one to be as brief as possible.

Gist of Idea

Grice's maxim of manner requires one to be as brief as possible

Source

report of H. Paul Grice (Some Models for Implicature [1967]) by Ofra Magidor - Category Mistakes 5.2

Book Reference

Magidor,Ofra: 'Category Mistakes' [OUP 2013], p.115


A Reaction

An alternative maxim of conversation is that there should not be long silences between contributions - which would probably result if the contributions are all curtly abbreviated.