Grice’s maxims We use the language every day to communicate with each other in order to learn and produc.in other words we need language to cooperate. .In linguistics the cooperative principles design to cooperate to work together in order to communicate efficiently between two people or groups of people. Grice’s maxims was written in 1975 and created by Paul Grice about how follow the conversation maxims. The linguist paul Grice presented this maxims in depth and give us four maxims. Grice’s maxims are four maxims that the speakers should be follow these rules or maxims:- 1 Maxims of Quality 2 Maxims of Quantity 3 Maxim of Relation 4 Maxims of Manner http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/grices-conversational-maxims.html The cooperative principle is generally about cooperative with one another, when two people want to speak or to exchange it. The first maxim is Maxims of Quality, which means to tell the truth when two persons interact with each other in a conversation. Example: A: how old are you ? B: 135 Here The speaker doesn 't give the right answer which is false because he is in fact 20 years old,and the answer to the statement was obviously false. The second maxim is maxims of Quantity to give maximum information with minimum effort. Example:1 A: how old are you ? B: 1+1+1+1+1+3+1+4+2+1+3 Example :2 A: what are you watching? B: television As the result in example 1( B second person ) is violated the maxims of quantity that he shouldn’t say more or