An Introduction to Gricean Maxims
You will hear a lecture given by Prof. Elin McCready about some maxims, or rules, of conversation that an English philosopher of language named Herbert Paul Grice devised. These rules have become known as Grice’s Conversational Maxims, or Gricean Maxims. It can be said that Grice’s work formed the basis of the modern study of pragmatics, a branch of linguistics concerned with the ways in which people produce and comprehend meanings through language in social contexts.