Grice's cooperative principle

This study aims to explore how English and Vietnamese sitcom characters violate Grice's Cooperative Principle as humor strategies in their daily conversation to create humor. In the light of Grice’s Cooperative Principle, the conversational maxims violated as humor strategies in English and Vietnamese sitcoms are figured out to help EFL learners improve their English competence.

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This study mainly rely on pragmatics field, especially in conversational maxims. The cooperative conversational maxims by Grice (1975) is employed to analyze how the presidential nominees fail to follow the maxims in 2016 American televised presidential debates. The researcher sets the focuses on the non-observance of Grice's cooperative maxims because this can make the research analyzed more deeply and interestingly.

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The study investigates how scriptwriters flout certain maxims of Gricean (1975) cooperative principle to generate irony in the sitcom “Friends”. The findings of this study have proved the relationship between the cooperative principle and irony.

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Grice (1967) proposed the Cooperative Principle (CP) and four conversational maxims. The CP runs as follows: make your contribution to what is required at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk in which you are engaged; to put it in another way we assume that in a conversation, all participants, regardless of their cultural background, will cooperate with each other when making their contributions, dice then broke this principle down into four maxims, which go towards making a sneaker's contribution to the conversation "cooperative". ...

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Grice postulated a general "Cooperative Principles" and four "maxims" specifying how to be cooperative It is common knowledge, he asserted, that people generally follow these rules for efficient communication.

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Grice, who coined the term "implicature/' and classified the phenomenon, developed an influential theory to explain and predict conversational implicatures, and describe how they are understood. The "Cooperative Principle" arfS associated "Maxims" play a central role.

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