So if you are preparing for any kind of speech, remember that communication is tricky. To make your job easier, make sure you follow Grice’s Maximes. There are four of them:

• Maxim of quality
• Maxim of quantity
• Maxim of relation
• Maxim of manner

Their charm is that they are quite easy to work with. The outcome is, however, overwhelmingly different. The English philosopher Herbert Paul Grice proposed four maxims of communications for he described conversations as a cooperative effort where people aim to understand each other. However, by not following those golden rules, they make understanding even more complicated. The reason for it is called implicature. This phenomenon can be described as that part of communication that is meant but not literally said. Things that are suggested, implied or hinted at. And that’s just why we should follow the four golden rules: To prevent the implicature to mess up with our communication.

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