The Conversational Maxims by #Grice

Of the four categories, the maxims of Quality are the most essential for me:

Supermaxim: Try to make your contribution one that is true.

- Do not say what you believe to be false.
- Do not say that, for which you lack adequate evidence (Grice 1975, #Logic and #Conversation, p. 46).

If insecurity cannot be resolved by conversational #implicatures, if the suspicion of dishonesty remains, then #communication (and #trust) fails - in #politics and elsewhere.

Costruzioni evidenziali intersoggettive basate su verbi riferiti al destinatario
Il caso di vedi/vede/vedete+che

🎉 The first common research article of the InfinIta project group (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/192771) is out 🎉 It just appeared, in Italian, in the young international and #multilingual journal "Studia linguistica romanica", which covers all topics of #Romance #linguistics.
📖 https://studialinguisticaromanica.org/index.php/slr/article/view/116

This is what it is about:
A study of various #corpora of spoken Italian shows that present indicative forms of vedere+che regularly convey #evidential meanings. These range from direct #perception to repeated experience and inference based on visual and non-visual clues. This is true also of forms referring to the addressee. These express #intersubjective sources by means of the generic reading of the 2nd person singular or by means of evidential #implicatures. Such implicatures lead to an extension of reference from an experience made by the addressee during the interaction to an experience shared by the speaker-addressee dyad. A salient property of the latter's in situ intersubjective uses is that the speaker claims #epistemic primacy. This applies to asymmetrical situations such as, for instance, classroom interaction, but also occurs in symmetrical interactions, where it emphasizes the speaker's persuasive commitment.

@linguistics