the Law of Conserved Conversation (That i’ve just made up)
You may want to read something about pragmatics, starting with e.g. the section on conversational implicatures in Chapter 1 of CGEL.
(Your made-up law sounds related to these.)
Huh. The Maxim of Relation does sound very much like what I was trying to go for.
You may want to read something about pragmatics, starting with e.g. the section on conversational implicatures in Chapter 1 of CGEL.
(Your made-up law sounds related to these.)
Huh. The Maxim of Relation does sound very much like what I was trying to go for.