The Analysis of Violation of Cooperative Principle in College English Listening Comprehension Teaching

Abstract

The paper is about the usage of violation of Grice's cooperative principle in college English listening comprehension teaching. Cooperative principle put forward by H.P.Grice is a theory about people's conversation. CP theory plays an important role in explaiming people's verbal communication. While in actual communication, people sometimes violate the CP theory literately. In order to grasp the real meaning of speakers, students need notice the situation when CP theory is violated literately and understand what the speakers really want to express in English listening comprehension exercise. So English teachers had better introduce Grice's CP theory and the violation of CP theory in collage English listening comprehension teaching.