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This paper will be concerned with the way in which Grice’s Cooperative Principle is represented in the literature of both English and Arabic, and the interpretations and conclusions to which this can lead through showing the similarities and differences in those two languages with reference to the implementation of the cooperative principle and its maxims. Grice’s Cooperative Principle is an assumed basic concept in pragmatics. Grice has relocated the Cooperative Principle from philosophy to linguistics.
This paper discusses the Arabic coordination particle wa and its use and function on the basis of the Gricean cooperative principle. It aims to provide an outline of the maxims utilized by Arabic speakers in their interpretation of this conjunction. It demonstrates that interpretation brings out a conflict between the Gricean conversational maxims. The context of communication is investigated for a resolution of the conflict. It is argued that context and the functional understanding of language are more decisive in the interpretation of language utterances than either the conventional meaning of a linguistic element or the principle of communicative cooperation.
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The paper is an attempt to the study of Grice’s cooperative principle (hereafter CP), underlines meaning and communication. Grice claims that human beings communicate with each other in a logical and rational way, and cooperation is embedded in people’s conversations. He argues that when we speak to one another we act cooperatively and mutually accept one another to construct meaningful conversations in a particular way. Grice’s CP has been a central and controversial theme in pragmatics because a major source of controversy associated with the CP is that the term ‘cooperation’ is open to different interpretations due to the dichotomy of ‘saying’ and ‘meaning.’ Grice concerned the philosophical importance of the dichotomy a particular sentence ‘A’ and an ‘utterer’ ‘U.’ In this paper, we have to find out, first, what ‘A’ means, what ‘U’ said on a given occasion by uttering ‘A,’ and what ‘U’ meant by uttering ‘A’ on that occasion. Second, Grice produced an account of how saying and me...
English Education Journal
The Flouting of Grice’s Cooperative Principle by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English2017 •
The application of cooperative principle and repair strategies in talk showdemonstrates their essential function in language use. This research was intended to explain the flouting maximd of Grice’s Cooperative principle by native and non native speakers of English (guests) in Insight with Desi Anwar talk show, the differences between them in flouting the maxims, how the host of the talk show used repair strategies to overcome the guests who flout the maxims, reasons of using the strategies, and the contribution of the findings to the teaching English as a foreign language. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The findings showed that native and non-native speakers in the talk show flouted all the maxims. There were no significant differences between the performances of the native and non-native speakers in flouting the maxims. The differences only in terms of the frequency of flouting the maxims and the way they flouted the quality maxim. There were three types of rep...
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A Pragmatic Analysis of Some Quranic Verses in Light of Grice's Cooperative Principle2019 •
This is a comparative analysis of two studies which used the linguistic concepts of Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims.
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In “Logic and Conversation,” H. P. Grice posits that in conversations, we are always-already implying certain things about the subjects of our words while abiding by certain rules to aid in understanding. It is my view, however, that Grice’s so-called “cooperative principle” can be analyzed under the traditional Heideggerian dichotomy of ready-to-hand and present- at-hand wherein language can be viewed as a “mere” tool that sometimes breaks. Ultimately, I contend that the likening of language to a tool allows for a more robust understanding of it and conversational failures while ontologically recategorizing language as an object of sorts.
Research Result Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
The cooperative principle in political discourse: flouting Gricean maxims in Modern Standard Arabic political speeches2019 •
The purpose of this study is to investigate the universality of the Gricean Theory of Conversational Implicature and its application to the Modern Standard Arabic on political speeches. To do this, a recorded available broadcasted interview on an Egyptian TV channel with an ex-president of one of the Arab states lasting for 82 minutes was transcribed and used to generate representative utterances for flouting the four maxims of speech (i.e. quantity, quality, relation and manner). Ten utterances were generated and analyzed to represent the violation of flouting the maxims of speech. The findings revealed that the Gricean Theory of Conversational Implicature can actually be applied to the Modern Standard Arabic. The findings of this work have two implications for the study of pragmatics. First, political speech has the norm of being overtly unsystematic and covertly systematic, and this interprets the need of the Gricean Theory towards speech regulation. Second, intentionality and unintentionality of the violation of the maxims of speech is probably controlled by the speaker sometimes and is being uncontrolled in some other times-raising the point that experimental and/or behavioral research is needed to develop a certain scale measuring this aspect.
The article focuses on the realization of the universal pragmatic Principle of Cooperation in modern English discourse. This subject is relevant in the context of the growing interest in the pragmatic aspects of empathic communication. The Gricean paradigm of Cooperation was analyzed through the exploitation mechanism on the material from modern English literary and political discourses. The research has proved that to provide empathic communication the Cooperation maxims ideally work as follows: to achieve a coordinated interaction an interlocutor should try to make his/her conversational contribution truthful (the maxim of QUALITY), as informative as it is required (the maxim of QUANTITY), relevant (the maxim of RELATION), brief and orderly (the maxim of MANNER). The relation of reciprocal determination is established among the postulates of the Cooperative maxims with the further dominance of several of them in determining the direction of a communicative act to its goal (mutual understanding and empathy through the least cost spent). To achieve empathic communication the speaker can: 1) adhere to a certain postulate; 2) avoid it in some way; 3) consciously violate a postulate, exploiting its absence according to the chosen tactics of the discursive act conduct, which generates speech implicatures.
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