THE CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES IN FILM “THE VOW” BASED ON GRICE’S COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE AND IT’S MAXIMS
Abstract
It is widely argued that Grice’s theory of implicature has wide and
useful applications. Based on Grice’s Cooperative Principle and its maxims, this
study attempts to analyze pragmatically the conversational implicatures in film
“The Vow”. The result shows that in the conversation, the four maxim are
flouted. The maxims of Quantity (2, 86%) the highest score. 13 out of 22
dialogues flouted this maxim. The second frequently flouted are the maxim of
relevance and manner (1, 6%), and then followed by maxim of quality (1, 54%).
These maxims are considered to be flouted based on the category and the
characteristic given by Grice (1967). In this analysis, I argue that the step-by step
reasoning rigor of the CP and its maxims is worth being inspected by linguists
in general and pragmatiticists in particular.
Keywords: cooperative principle and its maxims, conversational implicatures.
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