Flouting of maxims in staff meetings / Bharathi Mutty

• Main Author: Mutty, Bharathi
• Format: Thesis
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
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This study explores the ways in which the staff of three local academic institutions flout Grice’s maxims in conversation during staff meetings. The study was conducted in two phases. The first phase was recording the staff meetings in participating institutions in two manners: overtly (the staff...