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Publication details [#26713]

Kurzon, Dennis. 1996. The maxim of quantity, hyponymy and Princess Diana. Pragmatics 6 (2) : 217–227.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

implicature | inference | maxim of conversation | quantification | television debate

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper illustrates the violation of the Gricean Quantity maxim in terms of hypynomy via the analysis of extracts from a BBC television interview with Princess Diana in 1995.