Meaning of cooperative principle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The idea that listeners and speakers need to cooperate in order to communicate effectively.
2. A theory of how listeners and speakers cooperate to communicate with language.

Examples

“Our talk exchanges do not normally consist of a succession of disconnected remarks, and would not be rational if they did. They are characteristically, to some degree at least, cooperative efforts [...] One might label this the Cooperative Principle.”

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