Context is the objective environment in which people communicate in words and convey information with each other. Context is the basis of implicature inference of euphemisms. The paper explores the role of context in ...
Doran, et al.(2009, 2012) and van Tiel, et al.(2016) have presented experimental evidence that gradable adjectives (e.g.cool) yield scalar inferences (e.g.to not cold) significantly less often than do numerals, quanti...
CP is one of the major theories in pr agmatics,it can make a conversation going smoothly,and it can also make a discourse coherent,which is the function of CP.However,with the development of the cognitive linguistics,...
In the paper the author e xplores the verbal humor interpretation in Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of c ooperative principle and it s four maxims in the c ontext of pr agmatics.Through analyzing the purposeful...
Fortress Besieged written by Qian Zhongshu is a famous Chinese satiric novel,which is widely regarded as one of the mas-terpieces of Twentieth Century Chinese literature.There are various researches on this classic wo...
Although English rhetorical devices often violate the Cooperative Principle, it generally doesn't impede the speakers to communicate. Listeners can understand the speakers' conversational implicature based on the Coop...
The American linguistic philosopher Grice proposed the important “Conversational Implicature Theory” in the lecture at Harvard University in 1967, and its related theories reveal language norms to guide the two side...
A Good Man is Hard to Find, one of the most wellknown and the most absorbing works of Flannery O’Connor,the paper discusses the application of the four criteria of the cooperative principle in the novel, reflects its...
Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle are two key pragmatic principles, which can explain why conversational implicature can exist. This paper mainly introduces Grice's Cooperative Principle, Leech's Politene...