Speaker activity and Grice’s maxims of conversation at the interface of Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics  

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Kleinke, Sonja

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 42 no. 12 (Dec. 2010), page 3345–3366.
Topik: Gricean maxims Flouting Particularized conversational implicature Cognitive principles Pragmatic marking Cognitive marking
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This paper attempts to show that a cognitive perspective of the Gricean concept on the conversational maxims opens new perspectives on two problems which have not been dealt with in detail in the original model and in most successive work on conversational implicature: speaker activity and a cognitive underpinning of themaxims of conversation. As pinpointed in section 1, the first problem is the need for a shift in focus towards the actual production of linguistic utterances fulfilling or flouting the maxims in particularized conversational implicature. The second problem is explaining how the adherence or nonadherence to the maxims can be conceptually accounted for on the basis of some general cognitive principles. While section 2 is devoted to a cognitive re-evaluation of the speaker’s perspective, section 3 will discuss some recent pragmatic developments, such as Levinson’s notion of pragmatic marking in generalized implicature, which can be applied to particularized conversational implicature and fruitfully underpinned by more general cognitive principles. Section 4 will present an outline of some basic cognitive principles involved when speakers fulfill or flout the maxims. In the course of the paper it becomes clear that both current pragmatic research and cognitive analysis contribute to a new understanding of Grice’s ideas.

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