An Investigation Into Flouting Cooperative Principle Maxims in the Play Arms and the Man
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1507.13Keywords:
cooperative principle, flouting maxims, rhetorical strategies, reasons, social classAbstract
This study aimed at investigating the cooperative principle maxims flouted by the characters of the play Arms and the Man, identifying the rhetorical strategies applied in flouting these maxims, assessing the reasons behind flouting these maxims and recognizing the difference in flouting these maxims by high and low-class characters. Descriptive qualitative method was employed to analyze and interpret data that were collected from the utterances of the characters in the play. The instrument of collecting data was a data sheet. Data were selected and analyzed based on certain theories. Mostly, context theory was applied to conduct the study. Grice’s (1975) theory was applied to investigate the maxims flouted by the characters in the play, Grundy’s (2013) theory was utilized to identify the rhetorical strategies used in flouting these maxims, and Leech’s (1983) theory was conducted to assess the reasons behind flouting these maxims. The study results revealed that the four cooperative principle maxims of quantity, quality, manner and relevance were flouted by the characters of the play. The most frequently flouted ones are the maxims of quality and manner, and the least frequently flouted one is the maxim of quantity. Secondly, the five strategies that were applied to flout the maxims are tautology, metaphor, overstatement, understatement and rhetorical question, but irony was not applied to flout the maxims in the play. Thirdly, the four maxims were flouted for the competitive, convivial, collaborative and conflictive reasons. Lastly, both high-class characters and low-class characters flouted Grice’s maxims.
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