Keelefilosoofia raamat
required (for the current purposes of the exchange). [Call this
the "Maxim of Strength."]
(M2) Do not make your contribution more informative than is
required.
(M3) Do not say what you believe to be false. [The Maxim of
Truthfulness.]
(M4) Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence. [The
Maxim of Evidence.]
(M5) Be relevant. [The Maxim of Relevance.]
(M6) Avoid ambiguity.
(M7) Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity).
The maxims' function is to expedite the giving and receiving of information,
in fairly obvious ways.
The maxims afford explanations of how a speaker can say one thing and
be correctly perceived as meaning another. Grice offers a template for such
explanations, in the form of a standard pattern of reasoning meant to be
engaged in by the hearer:
He [the speaker] has said that p; there is no reason to suppose that he is
not observing the maxims, or at least . .
annaabi.ee 
