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maxime de quantité

[Subentry of maxime, quantité1]

Eng    maxim of quantity

Synonym(s): loi d'exhaustivité

Type of: maxime, maxime conversationnelle, maxime de conversation

Related term(s): tautologie

Domain: Speech-Act Theory

Source(s): Ducrot & Schaeffer 1995: 476; Moeschler & Reboul 1994: 204; Neveu 2004: 84; Neveu 2005: 26; Parveau & Sarfati 2003: 217-218; Sperber & Wilson 1989[trans.]: 58

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