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Grice
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Grice  (grs), H(erbert) Paul 1913-1988.
British logician best known for his studies of the pragmatics of communication and his theory of conversational maxims.
Grice·an (grs-n) adj.
grice [ˈgraɪs]
vb
(Non-sporting Hobbies / Trainspotting) (intr) (of a railway enthusiast) to collect objects or visit places connected with trains and railways
n
(Non-sporting Hobbies / Trainspotting) an object collected or place visited by a railway enthusiast
[origin obscure]
gricer  n
gricing  n


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Penn breaks the Gricean maxim of relation, Mother perfectly understands his language because, although alien to her, it is, according to the narrator, "her most native tongue," the superlative most suggesting that she masters more than one language.
Renaming the world: freeman's revolt of mother by Chiwengo, Ngwarsungu / Academic Exchange Quarterly
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