Catching up

Here is another directional metaphor that we need to consider. Having "fallen behind" we need to "catch up."

I am anxious to move into semantics and pragmatics in Chapter 6 of "Concise..." and then on to the scoiolinguistics of Chapter 7. Most relevent to the conversational analysis is the section on conversational maxims (Chapter6):
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of Quality
Maxim of Relevence
Maxim of Manner
These are fairly easy to understand and should show up in your recorded conversations. Take a look and lets discuss.