Abstract
Though often misunderstood, Grice's Cooperative Principle (CP) has dramatically influenced disciplines invested in close discourse analysis. The CP states that interlocutors exhibit a specialized form of cooperation: they follow maxims of cooperation or deliberately break them to imply information (‘conversational implicature’). Here, Grice's CP is explained with examples. Two major critiques of the CP are examined, and the first refuted: (1) that the CP assumes benevolence from discourse participants; and (2) that conversation is too haphazard to be considered ‘cooperative.’ The essay ends with reference to applications of the CP from grammar studies, Neo-Gricean pragmatics, politeness theory, question processing, gender studies, and teacher research.
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