Breaking Grice's Maxims: Enabling students to recognize and write subtext

Billy Cowan

Breaking Grice's Maxims: Enabling students to recognize and write subtext

Billy Cowan

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Abstract

In his influential Logic and Conversation (1975) Linguist H.P. Grice suggests that conversation is based on a shared principle of co-operation. Intrinsic to this principle are four maxims that underlie all human discourse. Borrowing from the study of semantics and Grice’s theory of Implicature, playwright Billy Cowan demonstrates how being conscious of these maxims, and then breaking, or even sticking to them religiously, can help students to better understand and write subtext.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Not Known
Pages	18-23
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 28 Mar 2018
Event	National Association of Writers in Education Annual Conference - York, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Nov 2017 → 11 Nov 2017

Conference

Conference	National Association of Writers in Education Annual Conference
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	York
Period	9/11/17 → 11/11/17

Keywords

Creative writing
implicature
Grice's maxims
subtext
teaching

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