《英语专业毕业论文-On Cooperative Principle and Pragmatic Failure》.doc

On Cooperative Principle and Pragmatic Failure PAGE PAGE 14 Language is the most important tool for humans to communicate. Speech communication came into being with the starting of human society due to the needs of humansurviving and developing. At the same time, speech communication plays a very important role in the maintaining and developing of human society. With the development of society and advancement of science and technology, speech communication will play a more and more important role in the course of human communication. Communication by language is our basic ability for living as well as social activity. In this thesis, I clarify my point of view based on cooperative principle, From the speech communication of daily life,I link these communication phenomena of oral or written language to the theories of linguists such as Grice and Leech and their relative theories. I discuss the application of these theories to the speech communication of daily life. Cooperative Principle Theory proposed by Grice is a very important theory in pragmatics. It has a powerful explanatory power on the speech communication. The CP can be widely used. It can explain various pragmatics phenomena in language understanding. From the CP perspective, I discuss the speech communication and its application in real speech communication. First, this thesis elaborates the main points of the theory: definition of the CP and its maxims. Then the thesis deals with the application of CP in speech communication from two aspects: successful speech communication and pragmatic failure. Then it deals with the principles we must follow in successful communication and the violation of polite principle and tact principles that causes pragmatics failure. A further study of the nature and cause of pragmatic failure will make us more aware of the importance of sensitivity to cross-culture pragmatics difference and urgency of developing pragmatic