Question

A paper illustrates this set of concepts with the idea of a cook asking for sugar not expecting a “trick spoon made of rubber” or “a good book.” Geoffrey Leech expanded on Robin Lakoff’s proposed variant of this set of concepts, which includes giving options. Under a “Neo” theory named for their originator, these concepts can be replaced by Horn’s lower-bounding Q-principle and upper-bounding R-principle. A member of this set of concepts titles a book by (*) Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber that argues the other three are not needed. The formulator of these concepts (10[1])contrasted the effects of violating and flouting them. Implicatures arise due to this set (10[1])of rules introduced in “Logic and Conversation,” which delineate aspects of the cooperative principle. For 10 points, name this set of four (10[1])principles in pragmatics that govern everyday speech, including quantity, quality, relation, and manner. ■END■

ANSWER: Gricean maxims [or Grice’s maxims; or the four maxims of conversation; or conversational maxims; accept politeness maxims; prompt on maxims; prompt on the cooperative principle or CP with “What set of rules makes up the cooperative principle?”; anti-prompt on relevance or relation or quantity or quality or manner before they are read]
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Vivian MaloufWorld's Fair Wiggle WalkCleo: 5/7 movie9310
Conor ThompsonTunks et al.The Present King of James is Bald10710
Sean FarrellHouston Junior CollegeFree-ish Agents12910

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