The Application of Grice Maxims in Conversation: A Pragmatic Study

Md Mahroof Hossain Md Mahroof Hossain

doi:10.32996/jeltal.2021.3.10.4

Md Mahroof Hossain Md Mahroof Hossain

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https://doi.org/10.32996/jeltal.2021.3.10.4

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Abstract

In every individual’s life, communicating and interacting with others is vital for carrying out a healthy social and professional relationship. Strictly speaking, we, you and I communicate with one another in our day-to-day life and simply understand each other. Paul Grice’s has presented his cooperative principle theory to explain our day-to-day life conversation. This article aims to review the basic Grecian theory of conversational implicature, identifying important consequences, known problems, and useful extensions or modifications. This paper is about how people should consider meeting the cooperative principle in order to perform successfully in communication which is based mainly on Paul Grice’s theory of implicature which is considered one of the most important contributions to pragmatics.

Highlights

IntroductionGrice’s work on the cooperative principle led to the development of ‘pragmatics’ as a separate discipline within linguistics
1 In pragmatics, the major aim of communication is considered the exchange of information
This article primarily presents criticism of Gricean theory. It first illustrates Gricean theory and its principles, showss how implicature and how Gricean theory have been dealt with through the years. It shows how the Neo-Griceans presents a new theory that attempts to solve the problems of the Gricean framework

Summary

Introduction

Grice’s work on the cooperative principle led to the development of ‘pragmatics’ as a separate discipline within linguistics. Many linguistics and critics have argued against this field as a branch of philosophy rather than linguistics as its proponents, yet they have discussed and introduced it from philosophy and logic rather than language study From among those influential theories in Grice’s theory of conversational implicature, Grice attempts to systematically show how a person gets from what is said to what is meant or from the expressed meaning to the implied meaning. He argues that speakers can create implicit meanings and their audiences can infer these intended meanings from their conversations He believes that people follow specific patterns in their interactions and claims that listeners generally assume that a speaker’s utterance contains enough relevant information. What Grice (1975) does not say is that interaction is ‘cooperative’ in the sense which is found in the dictionary

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