Grice's work is one of the foundations of the modern study of pragmatics Grice studied the differences and relationships between speaker meaning and nguistic meaning He explained nonliteral speech as the outcome of a cooperative principle, and some derived maxims of discourse back• Grice's work is one of the foundations of the modern study of pragmatics. • Grice studied the differences and relationships between speaker meaning and linguistic meaning. • He explained nonliteral speech as the outcome of a cooperative principle, and some derived maxims of discourse. back