Grice’s Cooperative Principle concerns contributions fitted to a conversation’s accepted purpose. Quantity, quality, relation, and manner structure expectations that support interpretation, including disagreement and indirectness. Recognizable departures can invite inference, although cooperation does not imply benevolence, and plausible interpretation does not establish the speaker’s actual intention.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.