Early Autumn written by Langston Hughes is a short story about ex-lovers Mary and Bill who come across on Wash ington Square in a dusk of early autumn.The story is composed mainly by short conversation and scenery dep...Early Autumn written by Langston Hughes is a short story about ex-lovers Mary and Bill who come across on Wash ington Square in a dusk of early autumn.The story is composed mainly by short conversation and scenery depiction.This paper investigates the characteristics of Mary and Bill through conversation analysis based on Cooperative Principle and Face Theory.展开更多
Grice＇s conversational implicatures have aroused far more attention in linguistics than have his conventional implicatures. The basic idea is that language-activity, most typically, is a kind of rational （and purpos...Grice＇s conversational implicatures have aroused far more attention in linguistics than have his conventional implicatures. The basic idea is that language-activity, most typically, is a kind of rational （and purposive） social interaction governed by the principle of co-operation. In what may now be regarded as his classic formulation of this principle, Grice recognized several kinds of co-operation which he grounded under the headings of quantity, quality, relation and manner. Each of these comprises a set of one or more subprinciples, formulated by Grice as prescriptive maxim, which participants normally obey, but may on occasion flout or violate. Those were analyzed and given examples in sentences and text in this paper.展开更多
One of the politeness strategies,which has recently been observed,is the use of a semantically weak scalar expression to implicate the meaning of one or more of its stronger alternatives in a face-threatening context-...One of the politeness strategies,which has recently been observed,is the use of a semantically weak scalar expression to implicate the meaning of one or more of its stronger alternatives in a face-threatening context-a speech situation in which a loss of face can potentially be induced for the addressee,the speaker or both-out of politeness concerns.I call this type of marked scalar implicatures‘non-canonical scalar implicatures’.This article provides an informed discussion of the linguistic phenomenon in a few languages and presents a new analysis of it within the neo-Gricean pragmatic framework.展开更多
Can pragmatics and especially conversational implicature contribute to the semantic(i.e. conventional, truth-conditional, and propositional) content of a sentence uttered? During the ‘Golden Age of Pure Pragmatics...Can pragmatics and especially conversational implicature contribute to the semantic(i.e. conventional, truth-conditional, and propositional) content of a sentence uttered? During the ‘Golden Age of Pure Pragmatics'(GAPP), the answer to this question was straightforwardly negative. In other words, pragmatic intrusion into the semantic content of what is said is not allowed. But time has moved on. It has now been generally accepted in both the philosophy of language and linguistics that contra this ‘received' view, pragmatics and in particular conversational implicature or a variant of it like explicature or impliciture can encroach upon the semantic content of a sentence uttered, and to a less extent that some conversational implicatures may not be cancelled. This article presents a critical discussion and a neo-Gricean analysis of pragmatic and especially conversational implicatural penetration into the semantic content of a sentence uttered, focusing on what Levinson has called intrusive constructions.展开更多
Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's masterpieces. There are a lot of lively vivid dialogues in the novel. Conversational implicature is analyzed from the perspective of progmatics in Mansfield Park will be prov...Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's masterpieces. There are a lot of lively vivid dialogues in the novel. Conversational implicature is analyzed from the perspective of progmatics in Mansfield Park will be provided in this article.展开更多
Conversational Implicature Theory is one important theory of pragmatics. It focuses on the implied meaning of the speakers and plays an important role in speech communication.
The short story Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway is created and characterized by the conversation between the man and the woman, which can be approached by the cooperative principle from the pragmatic perspecti...The short story Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway is created and characterized by the conversation between the man and the woman, which can be approached by the cooperative principle from the pragmatic perspective to investigate how the man and woman accomplish the pragmatic acts and how the author and the reader collaborate to produce the intended perlocutionary effects.展开更多
Friends is a classical situation comedy in America in which humorous dialogues abound. With the theoretical framework of Cooperative Principle, this thesis extracts typical dialogues in American situation comedy Frien...Friends is a classical situation comedy in America in which humorous dialogues abound. With the theoretical framework of Cooperative Principle, this thesis extracts typical dialogues in American situation comedy Friends as data and discusses the characters' violation of maxims of Cooperative Principle together with the derived humorous effect.展开更多
Translation has always been acknowledged as one main branch of linguistics.Catford holds that translation is a specific linguistic theory.It’s necessary and important to study the relationship between translation and...Translation has always been acknowledged as one main branch of linguistics.Catford holds that translation is a specific linguistic theory.It’s necessary and important to study the relationship between translation and linguistic.Many scholars have proposed many opinions on the impacts of conversational implicature.From the academic perspective and on the basis of Grice,H.P’s conversational implicature theory,this article makes a careful analysis of conversational implicature and translation by giving exact definition and discussing the features of them.This article talks about the relationship between conversational implicature and translation by giving definitions and setting examples,hoping to help translation in further and make a great contribution to the development of translation.展开更多
The cooperative principle put forward by Grice is an important part of pragmatics.The four maxims included in the cooperative principle are effective in analyzing people's conversation,and sometimes the violations...The cooperative principle put forward by Grice is an important part of pragmatics.The four maxims included in the cooperative principle are effective in analyzing people's conversation,and sometimes the violations of the four maxims can often generate the implicit meaning of conversation,which called conversational implicature,or achieve certain communicative effects such as humor,irony and so on.This article tries to analyze some transcripts from a popular TV series of America called Desperate Housewives season I from the perspective of cooperative principle to show how to infer the conversational implicature and communicative effects of people's conversation with cooperative principle.展开更多
Understanding an utterance is far from proposition analysis and literal meaning interpretation. It is the unity of what is said and what is implicated. Grice＇s theory of conversational implicature provides some expli...Understanding an utterance is far from proposition analysis and literal meaning interpretation. It is the unity of what is said and what is implicated. Grice＇s theory of conversational implicature provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered. Using this theory, we can infer the speaker＇s real attention, appreciate figure of speech in literary work, and improve our communicative competence.展开更多
Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s debut which uses Elinor’s and Marianne’s marriage life as the main line, describing exquisitely and vividly the protagonists’ love and marriage. Since the dialogue is one of ...Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s debut which uses Elinor’s and Marianne’s marriage life as the main line, describing exquisitely and vividly the protagonists’ love and marriage. Since the dialogue is one of the basic ways to shape characters in literary works, the analysis of dialogues, especially that of those contradictory dialogues helps better analyze the novel itself. This paper analyzes different conversational implicatures in the typical dialogues in Sense and Sensibility, in order to help us to understand character differences, and to further understand the novel’ s theme. Through the analysis, this paper finds that there exist many indirect expressions in the dialogues in Sense and Sensibility, which reflect that characters violate the four maxims of Cooperative Principle in order to implicitly express their true thoughts and avoid such unpleasant communicational effects as embarrassment and conflict.展开更多
This paper probes into the dialogues in If You Are the One based on the theoretical framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle, with a view to discovering humorous effects and conversational implicature in a certa...This paper probes into the dialogues in If You Are the One based on the theoretical framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle, with a view to discovering humorous effects and conversational implicature in a certain context. Through the analysis of representative dialogues which obey and violate the maxims respectively, this paper concludes that speakers, by appropriately violating the maxims and unconsciously observing the maxims of the CP, manage to achieve humorous effects and conversational implicature. Meanwhile, this paper aims to help people express themselves appropriately to avoid pragmatic failures and achieve the goal of communication.展开更多
Researches on discourse analysis have been broadly conducted from various perspectives in linguistics. Many of them focus on analyzing the discourse with respect to cohesion, coherence, and the co-operative principle....Researches on discourse analysis have been broadly conducted from various perspectives in linguistics. Many of them focus on analyzing the discourse with respect to cohesion, coherence, and the co-operative principle. This paper, however, attempts at the discourse coherence and the understanding of conversational implicature through the application of schema theory in doing discourse analysis.展开更多
文摘Early Autumn written by Langston Hughes is a short story about ex-lovers Mary and Bill who come across on Wash ington Square in a dusk of early autumn.The story is composed mainly by short conversation and scenery depiction.This paper investigates the characteristics of Mary and Bill through conversation analysis based on Cooperative Principle and Face Theory.
文摘Grice＇s conversational implicatures have aroused far more attention in linguistics than have his conventional implicatures. The basic idea is that language-activity, most typically, is a kind of rational （and purposive） social interaction governed by the principle of co-operation. In what may now be regarded as his classic formulation of this principle, Grice recognized several kinds of co-operation which he grounded under the headings of quantity, quality, relation and manner. Each of these comprises a set of one or more subprinciples, formulated by Grice as prescriptive maxim, which participants normally obey, but may on occasion flout or violate. Those were analyzed and given examples in sentences and text in this paper.
文摘One of the politeness strategies,which has recently been observed,is the use of a semantically weak scalar expression to implicate the meaning of one or more of its stronger alternatives in a face-threatening context-a speech situation in which a loss of face can potentially be induced for the addressee,the speaker or both-out of politeness concerns.I call this type of marked scalar implicatures‘non-canonical scalar implicatures’.This article provides an informed discussion of the linguistic phenomenon in a few languages and presents a new analysis of it within the neo-Gricean pragmatic framework.
文摘Can pragmatics and especially conversational implicature contribute to the semantic(i.e. conventional, truth-conditional, and propositional) content of a sentence uttered? During the ‘Golden Age of Pure Pragmatics'(GAPP), the answer to this question was straightforwardly negative. In other words, pragmatic intrusion into the semantic content of what is said is not allowed. But time has moved on. It has now been generally accepted in both the philosophy of language and linguistics that contra this ‘received' view, pragmatics and in particular conversational implicature or a variant of it like explicature or impliciture can encroach upon the semantic content of a sentence uttered, and to a less extent that some conversational implicatures may not be cancelled. This article presents a critical discussion and a neo-Gricean analysis of pragmatic and especially conversational implicatural penetration into the semantic content of a sentence uttered, focusing on what Levinson has called intrusive constructions.
文摘Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's masterpieces. There are a lot of lively vivid dialogues in the novel. Conversational implicature is analyzed from the perspective of progmatics in Mansfield Park will be provided in this article.
文摘Conversational Implicature Theory is one important theory of pragmatics. It focuses on the implied meaning of the speakers and plays an important role in speech communication.
文摘The short story Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway is created and characterized by the conversation between the man and the woman, which can be approached by the cooperative principle from the pragmatic perspective to investigate how the man and woman accomplish the pragmatic acts and how the author and the reader collaborate to produce the intended perlocutionary effects.
文摘Friends is a classical situation comedy in America in which humorous dialogues abound. With the theoretical framework of Cooperative Principle, this thesis extracts typical dialogues in American situation comedy Friends as data and discusses the characters' violation of maxims of Cooperative Principle together with the derived humorous effect.
文摘Translation has always been acknowledged as one main branch of linguistics.Catford holds that translation is a specific linguistic theory.It’s necessary and important to study the relationship between translation and linguistic.Many scholars have proposed many opinions on the impacts of conversational implicature.From the academic perspective and on the basis of Grice,H.P’s conversational implicature theory,this article makes a careful analysis of conversational implicature and translation by giving exact definition and discussing the features of them.This article talks about the relationship between conversational implicature and translation by giving definitions and setting examples,hoping to help translation in further and make a great contribution to the development of translation.
文摘The cooperative principle put forward by Grice is an important part of pragmatics.The four maxims included in the cooperative principle are effective in analyzing people's conversation,and sometimes the violations of the four maxims can often generate the implicit meaning of conversation,which called conversational implicature,or achieve certain communicative effects such as humor,irony and so on.This article tries to analyze some transcripts from a popular TV series of America called Desperate Housewives season I from the perspective of cooperative principle to show how to infer the conversational implicature and communicative effects of people's conversation with cooperative principle.
文摘Understanding an utterance is far from proposition analysis and literal meaning interpretation. It is the unity of what is said and what is implicated. Grice＇s theory of conversational implicature provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered. Using this theory, we can infer the speaker＇s real attention, appreciate figure of speech in literary work, and improve our communicative competence.
文摘Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s debut which uses Elinor’s and Marianne’s marriage life as the main line, describing exquisitely and vividly the protagonists’ love and marriage. Since the dialogue is one of the basic ways to shape characters in literary works, the analysis of dialogues, especially that of those contradictory dialogues helps better analyze the novel itself. This paper analyzes different conversational implicatures in the typical dialogues in Sense and Sensibility, in order to help us to understand character differences, and to further understand the novel’ s theme. Through the analysis, this paper finds that there exist many indirect expressions in the dialogues in Sense and Sensibility, which reflect that characters violate the four maxims of Cooperative Principle in order to implicitly express their true thoughts and avoid such unpleasant communicational effects as embarrassment and conflict.
文摘This paper probes into the dialogues in If You Are the One based on the theoretical framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle, with a view to discovering humorous effects and conversational implicature in a certain context. Through the analysis of representative dialogues which obey and violate the maxims respectively, this paper concludes that speakers, by appropriately violating the maxims and unconsciously observing the maxims of the CP, manage to achieve humorous effects and conversational implicature. Meanwhile, this paper aims to help people express themselves appropriately to avoid pragmatic failures and achieve the goal of communication.
文摘Researches on discourse analysis have been broadly conducted from various perspectives in linguistics. Many of them focus on analyzing the discourse with respect to cohesion, coherence, and the co-operative principle. This paper, however, attempts at the discourse coherence and the understanding of conversational implicature through the application of schema theory in doing discourse analysis.
