Pragmatic Analysis on Conversational Implicature in Mansfield Park

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.

Grice＇s theory of conversational implicature

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.

Analysis of conversational implicatures in sentences and text

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.

The Conversational Implicature in Sense and Sensibility -A CP Perspective

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.

The Study of Cooperative principle and Conversational implicature to Alice's adventure in Wonderland

Alice＇s Adventures in Wonderland （1865） is considered to be one of the best examples of English fairy tale literature. This thesis studies the famous fairy tales from the perspective of cooperative principle and conversational implicalure. Meanwhile to study how the author creates a mess and disodered fantasy wonderland by breaking the conversation principle and deepen the theme of the novel to show us a full of magic fairyland.

The Analysis of Conversational Implicature of English Nonce Words in Comic Humor

Based on Grice's cooperation principle(CP),this essay attempts to explore the conversational implicature(CI) of English nonce words in comic humor with many examples from famous U.S sitcom Friends.From this new perspective,the paper proposes that the conversational implicatue in comic humor rcannot only be traditionally involved on sentence level,but also in new-coined words or phrases,so the reflection of the speaker's particular communicative needs can be exactly conveyed.

Analysis of Conversational Implicature

Conversation plays an essential and important role in people's daily activities. Conversational implicature is the most basic element in the process of communication and is one of the core concepts in pragmatics. Only if one knows the conversational implicature in the discourse could the communication smoothly move on. Otherwise, it would be difficult to continue.Thus, this paper aims to contribute on the knowledge of the analysis of conversational implicature through making a detailed analysis on Grice's theory of conversational implicature and to help people appropriately use this theory in conversations so as to avoiding unnecessary misunderstanding. It also reveals some limitations of conversational implicature.

The Translation of Fictional Dialogues in the Light of Conversational Implicature Theory——A Case Study of The Outstation

This paper is intended to focus on the translation of fictional dialogues,and to explore the specific translation methods in the choice of emotional words to convey the speaker’s conversational implicature in the fiction The Outstation under the guidance of conversational implicature theory.

An Analysis of Conversational Implicature in the Legend of Zhen Huan from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle

The author uses the cooperative principle to analyze the conversational implicatures in the Legend of Zhen Huan by examining how the maxims of the cooperative principle are violated.By writing this article, the author hopes to let the audience have a further appreciation of this work and enjoy more about the charms of language.

An Application of Conversational Implicature Theory to L2 Listening Teaching

In second language( L2) listening,listeners find it difficult to figure out the speaker 's implied meaning correctly.Based on Grice's conversational implicature theory and Anderson's three-stage language comprehension model and also based on the cognitive processes in listening comprehension described by Vandergrift,the author attempts to build a implicature inference listening comprehension model( the CT model for short),and conducts an empirical study to testify its effectiveness in L2 listening teaching.

STUDY ON TEACHING THE INTERPRETATIONS OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION

本文讨论了在大学英语听力教学中教授会话含义理解的可行性和有效性。在教学实验中,研究者通过教授基本的语言学理论特别是会话含义理论的相关知识,改革传统听力教学模式,优化课堂教学结构和互动架构。研究表明,学生在掌握相应的会话含义理论之后,经过有指导的学习实践,成功地掌握了教材中听力会话的基本结构以及会话含义的推导过程,进而实现对篇章的理解。因此,在大学英语听力教学中教授会话含义,可以促进学生听力能力的提高。

Truth-condition-contributing conversational implicatures, intrusive constructions, and neo-Gricean 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.

An Analysis of the Linguistic Features of The Minister’s Black Veil from the Perspective of Literary Pragmatics

The Minister’s Black Veil is one of the most classic short stories written by American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864),From the perspective of literary pragmatics,this paper analyzes the language features of the novel,such as words and sentences,grammar,semantic ambiguity,rhetoric and conversational implicature based on cooperative principle,so as to explore the superb writing style and literary art of the novel,better understand and appreciate this literary work,and provide a new perspective and reference for the study of British and American literature Direction.

Analysis of English Humor in Two Broke Girls from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

Humor,as a language art,is considered to be an indispensable form of communication in our daily life.This paper,from the perspective of cooperative principle,takes 8 humorous conversations from the popular sitcom Two Broke Girls as analytical materials to analyze English humor.The humorous effects produced by violating the maxim of quantity,quality,relation and manner in Two Broke Girls are the concrete embodiment of conversational implicature in English humor.The most important part of this paper is the detailed analyses of many examples,which is helpful to the study of the cultural differences between Chinese humor and English humor.Moreover,linking sitcoms to pragmatics can deepen interlocuters’understanding of cooperative principle and the speaker’s implication.As an interdisciplinary subject,therefore,not only can pragmatics be combined with sitcoms,but also applies to other fields.It is hoped that this paper can make future researchers realize the importance of context and delve into other areas from the perspective of cooperative principle.

CHINESE EFL LEARNERS' PRAGMATIC PERFORMANCE IN LISTENING TASKS

This research aims to examine Chinese EFL learners' performance on a listening comprehension task that focused on linguistic and pragmatic comprehension.Linguistic comprehension requires the listener to understand vocabulary,syntax and other linguistic information,while pragmatic comprehension asks for the listener to understand contextual information,such as the role and status of the interlocutor(Rost 2002).An independent Sample T-test and a correlational study were conducted to explore two main problems.The first one dealt with whether there were developmental differences in the processing of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning across two groups of EFL learners with high and low proficiency and their comprehension of two subcomponents of pragmatic meaning — speech acts processing and conversational implicature processing.The second one explored the relationship between comprehension of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning,and the relationship between the two subcomponents.