Grice's conversational maxims
What you chose to leave out is heard just as clearly as what you said.
'Will you come?' — 'I have a lecture.' Nobody said the word no and everybody heard it: the hearer runs on four expectations, and when you plainly break one, they work out the meaning themselves.
- The situation
The minutes say 'it was decided to continue the discussion', and a month later nobody knows what was decided.
- What the model says
This breaks quantity: less was said than needed, so the reader has to guess — and guessing, they conclude that nothing was decided.
- What you do
In this meeting's minutes write, against every item, what was decided, who does it and by when.
What it claims
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Who created it
Why this is your problem
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shared competencies: Rhetoric, Mobilising others, Self-command
shared competencies: Rhetoric, Mobilising others
shared competencies: Rhetoric, Self-command
shared competencies: Rhetoric, Mobilising others
Of the ten gslk competency domains, this work grounds:
The same work written for a member: what to do with it in the club.
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- Stanford Encyclopedia on Paul Grice
- Stanford Encyclopedia on pragmatics — where the maxims live today
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