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Single Idea 18044

[filed under theme 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 Ref

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.

The 4 ideas from 'Some Models for Implicature'

18046 Grice's maxim of quantity says be sufficiently informative [Grice, by Magidor]
18044 Grice's maxim of manner requires one to be as brief as possible [Grice, by Magidor]
22330 Grice said patterns of use are often semantically irrelevant, because it is a pragmatic matter [Grice, by Glock]
18045 Grice's maxim of quality says do not assert what you believe to be false [Grice, by Magidor]