maxim of relevance

Synonym(s)

Sources

• LEVINSON 1983 102

  LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

• WALES 1989 399

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• ELL 951 (relevance maxim), 3254 (principle of relevance)

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• BROWN & LEVINSON 95

  BROWN, Penelope & LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1987) Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

• CRYSTAL 2003 286

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.