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Flout at Your Own Risk: LLMs Struggle with Pragmatic Cooperativity Under Epistemic Asymmetry

arXiv cs.CL · 2026-07-14 Cached

This paper investigates whether large language models exhibit pragmatic cooperativity in multi-party collaborative tasks under conditions of epistemic asymmetry, formalizing Grice's cooperative principle and evaluating LLMs as both speakers and listeners. Results show that while LLMs display some pragmatic capabilities, they struggle with incomplete information and fail to recognize certain violations of Gricean maxims.

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