The maxim of quality constrains the interlocutors to communicate with some factual basis. Speaker are expacted to say what they believe to be true and to have adequate evidence for their utterances. Consider the conversation in (5).
The maxim of quality constrains the interlocutors to communicate with some factual basis. Speaker are expacted to say what they believe to be true and to have adequate evidence for their utterances. Consider the conversation in (5).