The Conversational Implicature Created by the Violation of the Cooperative Principle 英语论文

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1、TheConversationalImplicatureCreatedbytheViolationoftheCooperativePrincipleAbstractTheCooperativePrinciple(orCPforshort)playsaveryimportantroleinPragmatics.ThispaperanalyzestheconversationalimplicaturederivefromtheviolationoftheCP.Examplesinconversationsbeloware

2、giventoillustratehowitworks.ItwillbehelpfultounderstandtheCPdeeplysoastoimprovelearners’languagecommunicativeability.KeywordsTheCooperativePrincipleviolationconversationalimplicatureIIntroductionTheCPwasadvancedfirstlybyOxfordphilosopherHerbertPaulGriceasfollow

3、s:Makeyourcontributionsuchasisrequired，atthestageatwhichitoccurs,bytheacceptedpurposeordirectionofthetalkexchangeinwhichyouareengaged.Griceidentifieditintofourmaxims,whichgotowardsmakingaspeaker’scontributiontotheconversation“cooperative”.Itinclude:(1)Quantity;

4、(2)Quality;(3)Relation;(4)Manner.Buttheuseoftermssuchas“principle”and“maxim”doesnotmeantheCPanditsmaximswillbefollowedbyeverybodyallthetime.Peopledoviolatethemtomaketheconversationalimplicatureinthepurposeofhumor,politenessandsoon.Inthispaper,Iwillanalyzethecon

5、versationalimplicaturecreatedbytheviolationoftheCooperativePrinciple.IITheViolativeExamplesoftheCP1.ViolationoftheMaximofQuantityThemaximofquantityincludestwoaspects:theinterlocutorsshouldmaketheircontributionsasinformativeasisrequired(forthecurrentpurposeofthe

6、exchange)andshouldnotmaketheircontributionsmoreorlessinformativethanisrequired.However,inourdailyconversations,weoftenviolatetheminordertodescribethingsvividlyorfunnily.Eg1:Wariswar.Eg2:Mrs.X:HowdiditJimmydohishistoryexamination?Mrs.Y:Oh,notatallwell,butthere,i

7、twasnothisfaults.Theyaskedhimthingsthathappenedbeforethepoorboywasborn.WecanseethatEg1isuninformativeatthesuperficiallevel,butitimpliesthat“Waristerriblebynature”.InEg2,“notatallwell”isasenoughasrequired,theaddingisneedless.Butitcancoveytheridiculousimplicature

8、like“Jimmy’sfailurecausedbytheteacherwhoasksthequestionbeforeJimmywasborn”.2.ViolationoftheMaximofQualityAccordingtothemaximofQuality,theinterlocutorsshouldnotsaywhatyoubeli