Gricean maxims

English

Alternative forms

  • Grice's maxims

Etymology

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

Proper noun

the Gricean maxims pl

  1. (linguistics) 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.
    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.
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