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Houlette, Forrest; Ramsey, Paige A. – 1979
The Cooperative Principle posits four general ways in which a speaker is expected to be cooperative: (1) quantity--make a contribution no more and no less informative than is required; (2) quality--say only that which one both believes and has adequate evidence for; (3) relation--be relevant; and (4) manner--make a contribution easy to understand.…
Descriptors: Information Processing, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance