Sunday 12 March 2017

COOPERATION IN CONVERSATION TO ACHIEVE EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION!

In social science generally and linguistics specifically, the cooperative principle describes how effective communication in conversation is achieved in common social situations, that is, how listeners and speakers must act cooperatively and mutually accept one another to be understood in a particular way. As phrased by Paul Grice, who introduced it, "Make your contribution such as it is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged (read more .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle)
Here's how the lingspace channel tells us the details: