French / English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

English

maxim of conversation

[Subentry of conversation, maxim]
Source(s):
  • CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.
  • LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
  • SPERBER, Dan & WILSON, Deirdre. (1988) Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
  • MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Domain:
Speech-Act Theory