Pragmatic Structure of Implicature and Violation of Grice Maxims in Some English and Arabic Newspapers

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to study gossip in two Newspapers. It pragmatically tackles gossip in these mass media. Consequently, it attempts to achieve the following aims:1) examining to what extent Grecian pragmatic theory of cooperative principle is of any help for revealing the intended meaning of media gossips in the selected newspapers.2) identifying the pragmatic structure of implicature in which gossip is composed. To Fulfill the aims of this study, it is hypothesized that: 1) Pragmatic principles occur randomly in English and Arabic media gossips.2) The gossip columns (the data of the current work) in the six newspapers under investigation are analyzed according to the models (Violation of Grice Maxims and implicature) . 3)Carrying out a contrastive analysis of the ways of expressing gossip in both languages.4) Drawing conclusions from the results of the study and making some recommendations and suggestions for further study.