Mind your manners!

Nov 21, 2011 by

In a recent series of posts on conversational implicatures (see here and here) we’ve discussed H. Paul Grice’s theory on how we recognize and interpret implicatures, including the four conversational maxims he has...

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More on "telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the t...

Nov 9, 2011 by

[thanks to Olga Kagan, Martin W. Lewis and Vitaliy Rayz for helpful discussions of various issues covered in this post] In a series of earlier posts, I discussed the issue of “telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but...

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