As two main universal principles in conversation,Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle play important roles in communication and intercultural communication.While in language teaching and learning in China,th...As two main universal principles in conversation,Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle play important roles in communication and intercultural communication.While in language teaching and learning in China,the neglect of the principles is caused by various reasons and thus leads to communication disorder in intercultural communication.The issue should draw the attention of English teachers who can lead students into the acquisition of the two principles in language learning.展开更多
Cooperative Principle put forward by Grice has been widely used in our daily conversions. And the violation of Cooperative Principle is the source of humors and special connotations. Hamlet is one of the most famous p...Cooperative Principle put forward by Grice has been widely used in our daily conversions. And the violation of Cooperative Principle is the source of humors and special connotations. Hamlet is one of the most famous plays in the world written by William Shakespeare. In the conversations of this play, Cooperative Principle and its violation is also widely used by the playwright.This article explores the application of the Cooperative Principle and its violation in Hamlet in details in order to make the readers interpret the play better.展开更多
Euphemism is a common phenomenon in languages.It's a more mild and polite way to say something unpleasant and embarrassing.It's a figure of speech as well as a cultural phenomenon.Euphemism functions to enhanc...Euphemism is a common phenomenon in languages.It's a more mild and polite way to say something unpleasant and embarrassing.It's a figure of speech as well as a cultural phenomenon.Euphemism functions to enhance the effect of communication and maintain harmonious interpersonal relations.With the development of modern society,it has become an indispensable element in people's interactions.Many linguists and scholars have studied this linguistic phenomenon from different angles.Based on their achievements,the author has a tentative analysis of the three kinds of negative effects by using euphemism from the perspective of Cooperative Principle.展开更多
After the title was "Harry Potter era" magical masterpiece,"Lord of the Rings","Harry Potter" and;"he Chronicles of Narnia" " Twilight of the City" Series on behalf of...After the title was "Harry Potter era" magical masterpiece,"Lord of the Rings","Harry Potter" and;"he Chronicles of Narnia" " Twilight of the City" Series on behalf of the international magic series.The "Twilight of the City" series are sold in the United States had more than 50 million.And the movie is also popular in the world.The hero,Edward Cullen,is popular in the world,many comments come to this character,to understand the movie more clearly,this paper will analysis the hero,Edward Cullen,from the application of cooperative principle,finding out the conflict in his heart.展开更多
In the thesis the author explores the humor of the actor' s lines in If You Are the One from the perspective of cooperative princi ple and its four maxims in the context of pragmatics.Through analyzing the purpose...In the thesis the author explores the humor of the actor' s lines in If You Are the One from the perspective of cooperative princi ple and its four maxims in the context of pragmatics.Through analyzing the purposeful violation of the maxims in the environment of the cooperation principle,the author intends to probe into the ways the actors figure out the implicature of humorous utterances and manage to carry on the conversation and the reproduction of the amusing effect.展开更多
As a cultural phenomenon,euphemism is categorized as a linguistic concept as well.Euphemism means speaking with good words or in a pleasant manner.The social functions of euphemism are:substitution of taboo words,stra...As a cultural phenomenon,euphemism is categorized as a linguistic concept as well.Euphemism means speaking with good words or in a pleasant manner.The social functions of euphemism are:substitution of taboo words,strategic use of language,and expression of politeness,humor and satire.Besides,euphemism is closely associated with cooperative principle in pragmatics.展开更多
The Violation of CP has closely related to English teaching.The violation of CP can be divided into two aspects—the unintentional violation and the intentional violation.The unintentional violation has some disadvant...The Violation of CP has closely related to English teaching.The violation of CP can be divided into two aspects—the unintentional violation and the intentional violation.The unintentional violation has some disadvantages to English teaching while the intentional violation of CP has some advantages.In this paper,I discussed the relation between the violation of CP and English teaching briefly and give some suggestions to English teachers.展开更多
Grice thinks that there is some regularity in conversation and introduces his famous Cooperative Principle.This paper analyzes his CP and its connection with politeness in people's social contact.
English jokes are humorous and implicit. They can set people laughing, and at the same time they can also set people thinking. However, people in non-English speaking countries cannot completely understand English hum...English jokes are humorous and implicit. They can set people laughing, and at the same time they can also set people thinking. However, people in non-English speaking countries cannot completely understand English humor because of the differences between different cultures. This paper tries to explain the causes of English humor in terms of cooperative principles of conversation. Examples are given to illustrate each cause.展开更多
Grice s Cooperative Principle places a great role in explaining how the human speech communication really does.Grice holds that the participants in a conversation should adhere to the Cooperative Principle.However,to ...Grice s Cooperative Principle places a great role in explaining how the human speech communication really does.Grice holds that the participants in a conversation should adhere to the Cooperative Principle.However,to our surprise,in actual speech communication,it is many phenomena of the violation of Cooperative Principle that there exist.In the light of Grice ' s Cooperative Principle,probing the causes of the violation of Cooperative Principle,the paper is to reveal some regular patterns of human language communication,to delve into the efficient models stimulating the development of a language,and to offer some research conclusions for promoting the tacit understanding of communication and the standardization of language.展开更多
Humorous utterances,especially those in the form of conversation in life,have distinctive pragmatic features.There is a close relationship between humor and pragmatics,which can be found in various books on pragmatics...Humorous utterances,especially those in the form of conversation in life,have distinctive pragmatic features.There is a close relationship between humor and pragmatics,which can be found in various books on pragmatics.In those books,humorous utterances function as examples for pragmatic analysis.Effective humorous languages often reflect one or several pragmatic features.This paper specifically introduces one of the important theories of pragmatics:cooperative principle,by which the paper analyzes the humorous utterance and explores the relationship between pragmatic rules and humorous utterance.The purpose is to make people know humorous utterance is a matter of pragmatics. The reality of the humor especially depends on implication of the language and the context.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
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most popular novel. In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen created a supremely spirited and attractive heroine, Elizabeth. In this paper, the author provides a new perspective-from...Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most popular novel. In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen created a supremely spirited and attractive heroine, Elizabeth. In this paper, the author provides a new perspective-from the Quality Maxim of CP to analyze and appreciate one of Elizabeth's personalities-sense of humor.展开更多
Advertising language is very critical in advertising and also contributes much to producing advertising effect. As one of the most important pragmatic principles, the Cooperative Principle (CP) is adopted much in ling...Advertising language is very critical in advertising and also contributes much to producing advertising effect. As one of the most important pragmatic principles, the Cooperative Principle (CP) is adopted much in linguistic researches. Also, by analyzing a large number of Chinese advertisements with CP, the author finds that it is common that advertisers try to generate implicatures by flouting the maxims of CP. This paper brings a clear look of the Cooperative Principle and its maxims. It also sheds new light on the interpretation of Chinese advertisements.展开更多
As a form of communication,advertising has been an object for study.Scholars at home and abroad have been studying it from different perspectives,this paper explores the persuasiveness of the advertising language from...As a form of communication,advertising has been an object for study.Scholars at home and abroad have been studying it from different perspectives,this paper explores the persuasiveness of the advertising language from the perspective of pragmatic theories,explaining the violations of Grice's Cooperative Principle,which leads to the implication and further uses the conversational implicature theory to analyze the persuasiveness of the advertising.展开更多
In recent years,some news headlines do not focus on the contents of news,but exaggerate the fact.The main reason for this phenomenon is that the news editors disobey Cooperative Principle.As a result,it causes two dif...In recent years,some news headlines do not focus on the contents of news,but exaggerate the fact.The main reason for this phenomenon is that the news editors disobey Cooperative Principle.As a result,it causes two different effects:one is negative;the other is positive.So the paper will find out the reasons of the ambiguity by using examples appearing in different newspapers and give a detailed analysis from the perspective of Cooperative Principle.展开更多
The cooperative principle is an important theory of pragmatics,concerning how to maximally achieve communicative goal.While translation serves as a communicative medium,it should also observe the conversational rules...The cooperative principle is an important theory of pragmatics,concerning how to maximally achieve communicative goal.While translation serves as a communicative medium,it should also observe the conversational rules—cooperative principle to achieve the equivalent effect.This paper tries to explore the issue from the perspective of cooperative principle.展开更多
People speaking English and Chinese have their own ways of communication,which is reflected evidently in the mov ies.Movies are reaching their communicative purpose through the way of dialogues,mirroring the distinct ...People speaking English and Chinese have their own ways of communication,which is reflected evidently in the mov ies.Movies are reaching their communicative purpose through the way of dialogues,mirroring the distinct cultures.this article is going to analyze the adjacency pairs from the movies The Devil Wears Prada(American) and Go LaLa Go!(China).How the CP is observed and broken differently by English and Chinese speakers respectively due to different cultural background in the adja cency pairs of the movies is going to be the main topic of our discussion.展开更多
By exploring cooperative principle and conversation,especially from the semantic and pragmatic way,this article tries to explore how the cooperative principle makes effect in humorous conversations.It turns out that t...By exploring cooperative principle and conversation,especially from the semantic and pragmatic way,this article tries to explore how the cooperative principle makes effect in humorous conversations.It turns out that the humor comes out more from the semantic as pect.Hence it is proposed that it should focus more on the semantic meaning to achieve humor.At last,the significance of applying humor ous conversation in teaching spoken English is also discussed.展开更多
The cooperative principle in conversation proposed by Herberr Paul Grice is an important theory in pragmatics,which contrib utes a lot to translation.It introduces pragmatics to translation field and injects fresh vig...The cooperative principle in conversation proposed by Herberr Paul Grice is an important theory in pragmatics,which contrib utes a lot to translation.It introduces pragmatics to translation field and injects fresh vigor to translation practice.Translation is also a kind of conversation some time,thus it should also obey the Cooperative Principle and its maxims.Sometimes,translators have to violate some maxims in order to obey the cooperative principle better in some extent.This article will show some examples in which cooperative princi ples can be used as a guide or a scale to improve the quality of translation.展开更多
文摘As two main universal principles in conversation,Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle play important roles in communication and intercultural communication.While in language teaching and learning in China,the neglect of the principles is caused by various reasons and thus leads to communication disorder in intercultural communication.The issue should draw the attention of English teachers who can lead students into the acquisition of the two principles in language learning.
文摘Cooperative Principle put forward by Grice has been widely used in our daily conversions. And the violation of Cooperative Principle is the source of humors and special connotations. Hamlet is one of the most famous plays in the world written by William Shakespeare. In the conversations of this play, Cooperative Principle and its violation is also widely used by the playwright.This article explores the application of the Cooperative Principle and its violation in Hamlet in details in order to make the readers interpret the play better.
文摘Euphemism is a common phenomenon in languages.It's a more mild and polite way to say something unpleasant and embarrassing.It's a figure of speech as well as a cultural phenomenon.Euphemism functions to enhance the effect of communication and maintain harmonious interpersonal relations.With the development of modern society,it has become an indispensable element in people's interactions.Many linguists and scholars have studied this linguistic phenomenon from different angles.Based on their achievements,the author has a tentative analysis of the three kinds of negative effects by using euphemism from the perspective of Cooperative Principle.
文摘After the title was "Harry Potter era" magical masterpiece,"Lord of the Rings","Harry Potter" and;"he Chronicles of Narnia" " Twilight of the City" Series on behalf of the international magic series.The "Twilight of the City" series are sold in the United States had more than 50 million.And the movie is also popular in the world.The hero,Edward Cullen,is popular in the world,many comments come to this character,to understand the movie more clearly,this paper will analysis the hero,Edward Cullen,from the application of cooperative principle,finding out the conflict in his heart.
文摘In the thesis the author explores the humor of the actor' s lines in If You Are the One from the perspective of cooperative princi ple and its four maxims in the context of pragmatics.Through analyzing the purposeful violation of the maxims in the environment of the cooperation principle,the author intends to probe into the ways the actors figure out the implicature of humorous utterances and manage to carry on the conversation and the reproduction of the amusing effect.
文摘As a cultural phenomenon,euphemism is categorized as a linguistic concept as well.Euphemism means speaking with good words or in a pleasant manner.The social functions of euphemism are:substitution of taboo words,strategic use of language,and expression of politeness,humor and satire.Besides,euphemism is closely associated with cooperative principle in pragmatics.
文摘The Violation of CP has closely related to English teaching.The violation of CP can be divided into two aspects—the unintentional violation and the intentional violation.The unintentional violation has some disadvantages to English teaching while the intentional violation of CP has some advantages.In this paper,I discussed the relation between the violation of CP and English teaching briefly and give some suggestions to English teachers.
文摘Grice thinks that there is some regularity in conversation and introduces his famous Cooperative Principle.This paper analyzes his CP and its connection with politeness in people's social contact.
文摘English jokes are humorous and implicit. They can set people laughing, and at the same time they can also set people thinking. However, people in non-English speaking countries cannot completely understand English humor because of the differences between different cultures. This paper tries to explain the causes of English humor in terms of cooperative principles of conversation. Examples are given to illustrate each cause.
文摘Grice s Cooperative Principle places a great role in explaining how the human speech communication really does.Grice holds that the participants in a conversation should adhere to the Cooperative Principle.However,to our surprise,in actual speech communication,it is many phenomena of the violation of Cooperative Principle that there exist.In the light of Grice ' s Cooperative Principle,probing the causes of the violation of Cooperative Principle,the paper is to reveal some regular patterns of human language communication,to delve into the efficient models stimulating the development of a language,and to offer some research conclusions for promoting the tacit understanding of communication and the standardization of language.
文摘Humorous utterances,especially those in the form of conversation in life,have distinctive pragmatic features.There is a close relationship between humor and pragmatics,which can be found in various books on pragmatics.In those books,humorous utterances function as examples for pragmatic analysis.Effective humorous languages often reflect one or several pragmatic features.This paper specifically introduces one of the important theories of pragmatics:cooperative principle,by which the paper analyzes the humorous utterance and explores the relationship between pragmatic rules and humorous utterance.The purpose is to make people know humorous utterance is a matter of pragmatics. The reality of the humor especially depends on implication of the language and the context.
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Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most popular novel. In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen created a supremely spirited and attractive heroine, Elizabeth. In this paper, the author provides a new perspective-from the Quality Maxim of CP to analyze and appreciate one of Elizabeth's personalities-sense of humor.
文摘Advertising language is very critical in advertising and also contributes much to producing advertising effect. As one of the most important pragmatic principles, the Cooperative Principle (CP) is adopted much in linguistic researches. Also, by analyzing a large number of Chinese advertisements with CP, the author finds that it is common that advertisers try to generate implicatures by flouting the maxims of CP. This paper brings a clear look of the Cooperative Principle and its maxims. It also sheds new light on the interpretation of Chinese advertisements.
文摘As a form of communication,advertising has been an object for study.Scholars at home and abroad have been studying it from different perspectives,this paper explores the persuasiveness of the advertising language from the perspective of pragmatic theories,explaining the violations of Grice's Cooperative Principle,which leads to the implication and further uses the conversational implicature theory to analyze the persuasiveness of the advertising.
文摘In recent years,some news headlines do not focus on the contents of news,but exaggerate the fact.The main reason for this phenomenon is that the news editors disobey Cooperative Principle.As a result,it causes two different effects:one is negative;the other is positive.So the paper will find out the reasons of the ambiguity by using examples appearing in different newspapers and give a detailed analysis from the perspective of Cooperative Principle.
文摘The cooperative principle is an important theory of pragmatics,concerning how to maximally achieve communicative goal.While translation serves as a communicative medium,it should also observe the conversational rules—cooperative principle to achieve the equivalent effect.This paper tries to explore the issue from the perspective of cooperative principle.
文摘People speaking English and Chinese have their own ways of communication,which is reflected evidently in the mov ies.Movies are reaching their communicative purpose through the way of dialogues,mirroring the distinct cultures.this article is going to analyze the adjacency pairs from the movies The Devil Wears Prada(American) and Go LaLa Go!(China).How the CP is observed and broken differently by English and Chinese speakers respectively due to different cultural background in the adja cency pairs of the movies is going to be the main topic of our discussion.
文摘By exploring cooperative principle and conversation,especially from the semantic and pragmatic way,this article tries to explore how the cooperative principle makes effect in humorous conversations.It turns out that the humor comes out more from the semantic as pect.Hence it is proposed that it should focus more on the semantic meaning to achieve humor.At last,the significance of applying humor ous conversation in teaching spoken English is also discussed.
文摘The cooperative principle in conversation proposed by Herberr Paul Grice is an important theory in pragmatics,which contrib utes a lot to translation.It introduces pragmatics to translation field and injects fresh vigor to translation practice.Translation is also a kind of conversation some time,thus it should also obey the Cooperative Principle and its maxims.Sometimes,translators have to violate some maxims in order to obey the cooperative principle better in some extent.This article will show some examples in which cooperative princi ples can be used as a guide or a scale to improve the quality of translation.