We have been arguing that conversational norms protect mutual trust, and that joint attention is essential to maintaining both. Gricean conversational maxims are linguistic norms that facilitate easy ...

Grice's Quantity maxims have been widely misinterpreted as enjoining a speaker to make the strongest claim that she can, while respecting the other conversational maxims. Although many writers on the ...

You are no doubt familiar with instances of verbal abuse that wear their name on their sleeve, as it were. Say you're at the store when you hear a woman ask her companion: "Do you think we need more ...