Guo Xian-fan
Abstract
In order to guarantee the conversations go smoothly, the two participants in the conversation should abide by some basic principle, which is called Grice’s Cooperative Principle. The paper explains the four maxims and analyses the conversational implicature produced by the violation of the maxims.
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In order to guarantee the conversations go smoothly, the two participants in the conversation should abide by some basic principle, which is called Grice’s Cooperative Principle. The paper explains the four maxims and analyses the conversational implicature produced by the violation of the maxims.
Key concepts: Implicature, Grice, Cooperative principle, Conversation, Order (exchange), Linguistics, Politeness maxims, Psychology