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• Gricean maxims
  '''Quality''': ‘Try to make your contribution one that is true’ ...son for this, wanting to implicate (i.e. wanting his utterance to have the implicature) that there was something seriously wrong with Miss X’s singing. In later
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• Maxim of manner
  Horn (1984) suggests that all maxims (except of the Maxim of Quality) should be replaced with two principles: the Q(uantity) principle and the R * [[Maxim of quality]]
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• Irony
  ...arer to arrive at the offensive point of your remark indirectly, by way of implicature" (Leech 1990: 82). Irony is one option of conveying hidden criticism, since ===Irony as a flouting of the maxim of quality===
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