Grices Maxims- we try to make meaning
1)quality- when someone speaks to us we assume they are telling the truth
2)quantity- we assume they are giving us all of the information
3)manner- we assume someone is speaking as clearly as they can
4) relevance - someone is saying something that is relevant
"I had a million jobs to do"
or "is the bottle almost empty"and "is that the time!"
You state the maxims clearly - way to comply with them all if this were spoken mode. The 'co-operative principle' needs mentioning and the examples need exploring PEE - they will probably need the other half of the adjacency pair in each case to make them clear - please post as a comment below. Thanks.
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