"too Gricean"

---- By JLS
------ For the GC

---- THIS IS TOO SCARY! I type "too Gricean" -- since for the life of me I cannot see how I can retrieve a good source for the pragmatic analysis of "too phi", "enough phi", where "phi" stands for a property or adjective, and the first hit for "too Gricean" is:


books.google.com.ar/books?isbn=0521444691... -

Psychopathology: the evolving science of mental disorder
Steven Matthysse, Francine M. Benes, Deborah L ...
1996 - Psychology - 633 pages

But the context is NOT scary at all. It´s all conditional:


"If, as Brown showed in the context of polite behavior,
schizophrenics are too "Gricean," in this excerpt our
speaker is surely not Gricean enough.

The maxim of relation ("make your contribution relevant") ...

--- This is NOT Penny Brown, but ROGER Brown, and the ref. is to the same volume that has the "too Gricean" occurrence, and is entitled "Politeness in schizophrenia".