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  logique naturelle
  logocentrisme
  logogramme
  logographique
  logophorique
  logorhée
  loi
  loi de Grassmann
  loi de Grimm
  loi de litote
  loi de Verner
  loi de Zipf
  loi d'exhaustivité
  long
  longueur

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English

conversational maxim

[Subentry of conversational, maxim]

Fr    loi de discours, maxime conversationnelle, maxime de conversation

Synonym(s): maxim, maxim of conversation

Kinds: maxim of manner, maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of relation

Related term(s): co(-)operative principle, flout

Domain: Speech-Act Theory

Source(s): Brown & Levinson: 94-95 (Maxim); Brown & Yule 1983: 31-32 (= conversational convention); Crystal 2003: 286; Fasold 1990: 129-130; Grice 1975: 47; Matthews 1997: 75, 219-220; Mclaughlin 1984: 31-32; Richards etal. 1992: 85-86; Wales 1989: 95-96


English word list

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  conventionality
  conventionalized indirect speech act
  convergence1
  convergence2
  convergence3
  conversation
  conversational
  converse
  converseness
  conversion
  convertor
  convey
  convey information
  co-occurrence
  co-occurring element

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