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cooperative principle: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

the assumption that speakers make contributions as informative, truthful, relevant and clear as the talk requires.

In pragmatics, cooperative principle refers to the assumption that speakers make contributions as informative, truthful, relevant and clear as the talk requires. This meaning comes from Grice (1975) in Speech Acts.[1]

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References

Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and Conversation. In Speech Acts (pp. 41-58). BRILL. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004368811_003

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