Thanksgiving dinner can be the perfect opportunity to implement Grice’s Maxims of Conversation. Out of the four principles, quality, quantity, relation, and manner, I believe that the most effective to use would be relation. This principle simply means to keep the what you are saying relevant to the conversation at hand and not to veer off into random topics. For example, if Person A brought up the pandemic and vaccine mandates and it seemed like it would cause controversy, Person B could violate this principle by asking them something completely different, like how they are doing at work or how their children are if they have any. This would steer the conversation away from a controversial subject and make it obvious that it is something that they would not like to discuss.

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