Analysis of Grice’s conversational implicature.docVIP

Analysis of Grice’s conversational implicature 　　【Abstract】Grice had comprehensive studied on implicature from philosophy view. And proposed the cooperative principle and the way of quality， quantity， relevance， four major principles， it laid a good foundation for the study of the implied. This paper reviews the theory of Grice conversation implicature background， combed the related theory， analyzed the existing problems， and for the study of linguistics implied， puts forward a new method of possible research Angle. 　　【Key words】implicature； cooperative principle； Grice 　　1. background 　　From the thirties of the 20th century， western philosophy gradually focused on the methodology. The philosopher stressed the certainty of knowledge and verifiability. They excluded metaphysics and try to establish philosophy on the basis of science. After that， language philosophy came into being. Language philosophy mainly concerns alleged， meaning， truth value， speech ACTS and so on. Their findings laid a foundation for the development of modern linguistics， especially the development of semantics and pragmatics. Many of their view is as a linguistic theories， such as Wittgensteins theory of meaning and referential， Austins speech act theory and Grices cooperative principle， etc. Meaning is derived in terms of its essence， is a kind of reasoning phenomenon in verbal communication. This phenomenon has noticed by many philosophers. On the basis of criticizing and inheriting predecessors research， Grices cooperative principle and its maxims are put forward. 　　2. relation theory 　　Implicit phenomenon had been a long time. However， Grice done the most most comprehensive and in-depth research. For implicature， Grice proposed many relation concepts. The main concept is： implicature and implicatum； “Natural” and “unnatural meaning”. Grice created implicature and implicatum and they are the core concept on implication research. Grice stated：“I wish to introduce， as terms of art ，