The idea that each person in a conversation implicitly assumes that all speakers are following the rules and that each contribution to the conversation is a sincere, appropriate contributionthe most basic conversational postulate,
stating that participants cooperate by sharing information in an honest fashionis __________.
a. the Cooperative principle
b. the Quality principle
c. the Belief principle
d. the Manner principle
Question 2
The broad term for the rules that govern our conversational interactions is __________.
a. conversational laws
b. conversational principles
c. conversational expectations
d. conversational maxims
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