Should I take your comment to mean that you think that the maxims are prescriptive? They are not; they’re purely descriptive.
This isn’t a “If you do [X], communication will be improved”. This is a “If you do [X], [Y] will be more noticed”, whether it improves or impairs the communication is an orthogonal consideration.
I think you have misunderstood what the Gricean maxims are. They are emphatically notinjunctions of the “If you do [X], communication will be improved” sort.
Epistemic Salience has nothing to do with the maxims. … Epistemic Salience isn’t studied …
This is just a summary of a (subset of) the Gricean maxims, right?
Should I take your comment to mean that you think that the maxims are prescriptive? They are not; they’re purely descriptive.
I think you have misunderstood what the Gricean maxims are. They are emphatically not injunctions of the “If you do [X], communication will be improved” sort.
Yes, it does; and yes, it is. Please take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicature (and some of the pages linked from the “See also” section of that page).
But the existing literature about them is, of course, considerably longer than what you’ve written; and that is, of course, what I was referring to.