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Gricean Maxims generate [[implicature]]s. If the overt, surface meaning of a sentence does not seem to be consistent with the Gricean maxims, and yet the circumstances lead us to think that the speaker is nonetheless obeying the [[cooperative principle]], we tend to look for other meanings that could be [[Implication (pragmatics)|implicated]] by the sentence.
Grice did not, however, assume that all people should constantly follow these maxims. Instead, he found it interesting when these were not respected, namely either "flouted" (with the listener being expected to be able to understand the message) or "violated" (
==Criticism of the Gricean Maxims and the Cooperative Principle==
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