The Gricean maxim of Quality "Try to make your contribution one that is true" and his maxim of Manner "Be perspicuous" are not observed in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobriand ...
Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 38, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 49-74 (26 pages) This paper is a study of debate practices as seen in the Nyāyasūtra and a number of commentaries. It concentrates on ...
Truth is often elusive or at best described as “my truth,” which does not always comport with reality. Grice (1975) developed four maxims that guide conversations. A violation of one or more of the ...