Grice's Maxims
& Chatbots

Dr. Elias Vance
Dr. Elias Vance

Senior Researcher

39 min
Intermediate
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Learning Objectives

State and explain Grice's four conversational maxims: Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner

Analyze how current chatbots routinely violate or deliberately exploit Gricean conversational maxims

Apply Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson) to conversational AI design and response selection

Design chatbot response strategies that are systematically grounded in pragmatic theory

Cooperative communication principles and their systematic application to conversational AI system design.

This lesson builds on the theoretical foundations established earlier in the module and extends your understanding of how cognitive-linguistic principles apply directly to modern AI systems.

Learning Objectives

State and explain Grice's four conversational maxims: Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner

Analyze how current chatbots routinely violate or deliberately exploit Gricean conversational maxims

Apply Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson) to conversational AI design and response selection

Design chatbot response strategies that are systematically grounded in pragmatic theory

Key Concepts

1

State and explain Grice's four conversational maxims: Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner

2

Analyze how current chatbots routinely violate or deliberately exploit Gricean conversational maxims

3

Apply Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson) to conversational AI design and response selection

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