Single Idea 18046

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

Full Idea

Grice's maxim of quantity says 'make your contributions as informative as required'.

Gist of Idea

Grice's maxim of quantity says be sufficiently informative

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.112


A Reaction

Is the 'requirement' of informative for the speaker or for the listener? It is easy to image situations where, one way or the other, the two people don't agree about informativenss.