Talk:Lexical entrainment

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Once lexical entrainment has come to determine the phrasing for a referent, both parties will use that terminology for the referent for the duration, even if it proceeds to violate the Gricean maxim of quantity. For example, if one wants to refer to a brown loafer out of a set of shoes that consist of: the loafer, a sneaker, and a high-heeled shoe, they will not use the shoe to describe the object as this phrasing does not unambiguously describe one item in the set under consideration. They will also not call the object the brown loafer which would violate Grice's maxim of quantity. The speaker will settle on using the term the loafer as it is just informative enough without giving too much information.^[4]

First, the text says "even if it violates", then it describes a situation with no violation. @TGilder: since you write this, can you explain this and/or clarify the text of the article? Jack who built the house (talk) 09:16, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]