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
The Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle are the main contents of pragmatics. This paper the writer makes a systematic exposition of what are the Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle and ho...The Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle are the main contents of pragmatics. This paper the writer makes a systematic exposition of what are the Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle and how they interact with each other in people’s conversations. .展开更多
Business English advertisement is a special form of speech act.It is very different from literary language and scientific language.This paper focuses on the analysis of the use of cooperation principle in business Eng...Business English advertisement is a special form of speech act.It is very different from literary language and scientific language.This paper focuses on the analysis of the use of cooperation principle in business English advertisements,and explores how advertisers inspire potential customers to have psychological resonance,so as to urge them to buy products or services.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
Humor is a kind of literature that can be found everywhere in our daily life. It is also a kind of language art that can be created by various reasons. This essay will analyze humor from a knowledge of pragmatics—coo...Humor is a kind of literature that can be found everywhere in our daily life. It is also a kind of language art that can be created by various reasons. This essay will analyze humor from a knowledge of pragmatics—cooperative principle (CP) and show how the humorous effect achieved ascribed to the breaking the four maxims of the cooperative principle. It also provides a lot of examples to show how to achieve humorous effect by applying Grice’s cooperative principle. The creation of humor and violation of CP have close relationship. Violating CP in the surface may create humor. A better understanding about humor will be achieved under an analysis of CP. As a linguistic phenomenon, humor has its own charm. It’s good medicine,that can improve interpersonal relationships and make others feel comfortable.展开更多
Love Is a Fallacy is a great work of Max Shulman, one of the America's most famous humorists. Literary pragmatics,an interdiscipline between literature and pragmatics, is concerned with the examples in which pragm...Love Is a Fallacy is a great work of Max Shulman, one of the America's most famous humorists. Literary pragmatics,an interdiscipline between literature and pragmatics, is concerned with the examples in which pragmatics is combined with linguistic and literary methods. Speech Act Theory, initiated by John Austin and developed by Paul Grice, has been employed in literary pragmatics. This paper aims to explore the characterization of the three roles in Love Is a Fallacy in the light of literary pragmatics. By delving into the realization of speech act and the flouting of the maxims of Cooperative Principle, the establishment process of characters can be better demonstrated.展开更多
Euphemism is an important form of language intentionally created in social life to achieve ideal communication.This paper analyzes four functions of euphemism and then discusses the production of euphemism from pragma...Euphemism is an important form of language intentionally created in social life to achieve ideal communication.This paper analyzes four functions of euphemism and then discusses the production of euphemism from pragmatic perspective.展开更多
This study analyzes the the verbal humor in the movie series If You Are The One from the perspective of some pragmatic theories.The findings of the study provide explanations towards generative mechanism of humor,such...This study analyzes the the verbal humor in the movie series If You Are The One from the perspective of some pragmatic theories.The findings of the study provide explanations towards generative mechanism of humor,such as the violation of Cooperative Principle,avoiding face-threatening acts,and particularly,creatively reveal that special use of Politeness Principle can produce a humourous effect,too.展开更多
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
Hyperbole is a very common rhetorical device which is widely used both in English and Chinese. In order to express his/her strong feelings and also to make his/her language more powerful, the writer/speaker exaggerate...Hyperbole is a very common rhetorical device which is widely used both in English and Chinese. In order to express his/her strong feelings and also to make his/her language more powerful, the writer/speaker exaggerates things on purpose. Yet in spite of the over-truth expression, employment of hyperbole does not affect the conversation flow between parties. Through an analysis of hyperbole from the perspective of pragrnatics, this article tries to explain the pragmatic functions of hyperbole.展开更多
Humor is one of the unique ways for human beings to express their feelings.It becomes one of the important topics in pragmatic study how the human system operates.This article introduces four maxims of Gricean coopera...Humor is one of the unique ways for human beings to express their feelings.It becomes one of the important topics in pragmatic study how the human system operates.This article introduces four maxims of Gricean cooperative principle and attempts to explore how humor in Friends,an American situation comedy is caused by violation of the principle and how to interpret humor in context.It will help us to understand English humor deeply so as to improve learners' communicative ability of language.展开更多
Irony is frequently used in our daily life.Traditionally,Irony is only considered as a figure of speech.Because of its importance and prevalence,irony has gotten a lot of attention over the last few years.In this pape...Irony is frequently used in our daily life.Traditionally,Irony is only considered as a figure of speech.Because of its importance and prevalence,irony has gotten a lot of attention over the last few years.In this paper,I concentrate on the pragmatic perspective of irony and try to find out the characteristics and functions of irony.In addition,the reasons of people choose to use irony in dairy life.At the beginning,I will introduce the basic definition and types of irony.Then I try to analyze the irony according to cooperative principles,politeness principle,irony principle,speech act theory of communication to explore the generation and comprehension of irony.Moreover,I illustrate the pragmatic functions of irony with appropriate examples.Finally,the paper emphasizes the importance of irony and predicts future development of irony.展开更多
Pragmatic vagueness is not only a universal phenomenon in daily life,but also an indispensable communicative strategy,especially in press conferences.This article analyzes pragmatic vagueness in Chinese Spokespersons...Pragmatic vagueness is not only a universal phenomenon in daily life,but also an indispensable communicative strategy,especially in press conferences.This article analyzes pragmatic vagueness in Chinese Spokespersons’four remarks from the perspective of Grice’s Cooperative Principle.The purpose of the article is to analyze the application of pragmatic vagueness in the remarks of Chinese spokespersons from the perspective of the Cooperative Principle and its pragmatic functions.The results show that pragmatic vagueness was an international communicative strategy in the remarks of Chinese spokespersons and through the use of pragmatic vagueness,the spokespersons violated the maxims of the Cooperative Principle,especially quantity maxim and manner maxim,in order to achieve different pragmatic functions:withholding information,being flexible,avoiding conflicts and safeguarding national interests.These findings have some implications for people to understand the application and functions of pragmatic vagueness in the remarks of Chinese spokespersons.展开更多
Accurate and appropriate pragmatics strategies play a significant role in cross-cultural business negotiation between exhibitors and buyers.Through the analysis of cross-cultural business negotiation dialogue between ...Accurate and appropriate pragmatics strategies play a significant role in cross-cultural business negotiation between exhibitors and buyers.Through the analysis of cross-cultural business negotiation dialogue between exhibitors and buyers in Canton Fair Cases,pragmatics strategies,on the basis of Cooperative Principle,Politeness Principle and Face Theory,can be obtained as follows.When negotiating over product,although Cooperative Principle is expected to be followed,exhibitors are more likely to break it and thus buyers are supposed to identify the authenticity of exhibitors'presentations.When negotiating over quote,both ex-hibitors and buyers are more likely to flout Cooperative Principle under some circumstances and therefore they should follow Politeness Principle and care of the other's face for win-win cooperation.展开更多
Polite words and expression can shorten the communication distance,ease the tension and conflict. As cultures are diverse, politeness is diverse. This paper is mean to explain the politeness in pragmatic use and its c...Polite words and expression can shorten the communication distance,ease the tension and conflict. As cultures are diverse, politeness is diverse. This paper is mean to explain the politeness in pragmatic use and its cultural specificity.展开更多
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The Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle are the main contents of pragmatics. This paper the writer makes a systematic exposition of what are the Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle and how they interact with each other in people’s conversations. .
文摘Business English advertisement is a special form of speech act.It is very different from literary language and scientific language.This paper focuses on the analysis of the use of cooperation principle in business English advertisements,and explores how advertisers inspire potential customers to have psychological resonance,so as to urge them to buy products or services.
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Humor is a kind of literature that can be found everywhere in our daily life. It is also a kind of language art that can be created by various reasons. This essay will analyze humor from a knowledge of pragmatics—cooperative principle (CP) and show how the humorous effect achieved ascribed to the breaking the four maxims of the cooperative principle. It also provides a lot of examples to show how to achieve humorous effect by applying Grice’s cooperative principle. The creation of humor and violation of CP have close relationship. Violating CP in the surface may create humor. A better understanding about humor will be achieved under an analysis of CP. As a linguistic phenomenon, humor has its own charm. It’s good medicine,that can improve interpersonal relationships and make others feel comfortable.
文摘Love Is a Fallacy is a great work of Max Shulman, one of the America's most famous humorists. Literary pragmatics,an interdiscipline between literature and pragmatics, is concerned with the examples in which pragmatics is combined with linguistic and literary methods. Speech Act Theory, initiated by John Austin and developed by Paul Grice, has been employed in literary pragmatics. This paper aims to explore the characterization of the three roles in Love Is a Fallacy in the light of literary pragmatics. By delving into the realization of speech act and the flouting of the maxims of Cooperative Principle, the establishment process of characters can be better demonstrated.
文摘Euphemism is an important form of language intentionally created in social life to achieve ideal communication.This paper analyzes four functions of euphemism and then discusses the production of euphemism from pragmatic perspective.
文摘This study analyzes the the verbal humor in the movie series If You Are The One from the perspective of some pragmatic theories.The findings of the study provide explanations towards generative mechanism of humor,such as the violation of Cooperative Principle,avoiding face-threatening acts,and particularly,creatively reveal that special use of Politeness Principle can produce a humourous effect,too.
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Hyperbole is a very common rhetorical device which is widely used both in English and Chinese. In order to express his/her strong feelings and also to make his/her language more powerful, the writer/speaker exaggerates things on purpose. Yet in spite of the over-truth expression, employment of hyperbole does not affect the conversation flow between parties. Through an analysis of hyperbole from the perspective of pragrnatics, this article tries to explain the pragmatic functions of hyperbole.
文摘Humor is one of the unique ways for human beings to express their feelings.It becomes one of the important topics in pragmatic study how the human system operates.This article introduces four maxims of Gricean cooperative principle and attempts to explore how humor in Friends,an American situation comedy is caused by violation of the principle and how to interpret humor in context.It will help us to understand English humor deeply so as to improve learners' communicative ability of language.
文摘Irony is frequently used in our daily life.Traditionally,Irony is only considered as a figure of speech.Because of its importance and prevalence,irony has gotten a lot of attention over the last few years.In this paper,I concentrate on the pragmatic perspective of irony and try to find out the characteristics and functions of irony.In addition,the reasons of people choose to use irony in dairy life.At the beginning,I will introduce the basic definition and types of irony.Then I try to analyze the irony according to cooperative principles,politeness principle,irony principle,speech act theory of communication to explore the generation and comprehension of irony.Moreover,I illustrate the pragmatic functions of irony with appropriate examples.Finally,the paper emphasizes the importance of irony and predicts future development of irony.
文摘Pragmatic vagueness is not only a universal phenomenon in daily life,but also an indispensable communicative strategy,especially in press conferences.This article analyzes pragmatic vagueness in Chinese Spokespersons’four remarks from the perspective of Grice’s Cooperative Principle.The purpose of the article is to analyze the application of pragmatic vagueness in the remarks of Chinese spokespersons from the perspective of the Cooperative Principle and its pragmatic functions.The results show that pragmatic vagueness was an international communicative strategy in the remarks of Chinese spokespersons and through the use of pragmatic vagueness,the spokespersons violated the maxims of the Cooperative Principle,especially quantity maxim and manner maxim,in order to achieve different pragmatic functions:withholding information,being flexible,avoiding conflicts and safeguarding national interests.These findings have some implications for people to understand the application and functions of pragmatic vagueness in the remarks of Chinese spokespersons.
文摘Accurate and appropriate pragmatics strategies play a significant role in cross-cultural business negotiation between exhibitors and buyers.Through the analysis of cross-cultural business negotiation dialogue between exhibitors and buyers in Canton Fair Cases,pragmatics strategies,on the basis of Cooperative Principle,Politeness Principle and Face Theory,can be obtained as follows.When negotiating over product,although Cooperative Principle is expected to be followed,exhibitors are more likely to break it and thus buyers are supposed to identify the authenticity of exhibitors'presentations.When negotiating over quote,both ex-hibitors and buyers are more likely to flout Cooperative Principle under some circumstances and therefore they should follow Politeness Principle and care of the other's face for win-win cooperation.
文摘Polite words and expression can shorten the communication distance,ease the tension and conflict. As cultures are diverse, politeness is diverse. This paper is mean to explain the politeness in pragmatic use and its cultural specificity.
