Grice's Cooperative Principle And Maxims

• Review of Literature One of the defining features of conversation is that it is cooperative in nature, Fais (1994:231-242). As human we communicate to others as we all conversational cooperative even when we feel not being enough cooperative with others. This does not mean that speaker talks always followed by listener respond or they never disagree, object or contradict each other, Stenström (1994: 1). Levinson (1983: 284) investigates conversations and find out a dentition for it as a talk in which two or more participants freely alternate in speaking mostly outside specific setting.

Many researchers claim that there are some basic concepts behind Grice’s cooperative principle and his maxims. Austin (1962) and Searle (1969) studied the relationship between direct and indirect speech act and their investigating the meaning of utterances rather the just sentences. Actually, Grice was interested in the relationship between what we are saying and what our intended meaning is and found a systematic way of distinguishing them. Grice also investigated how the speaker can make such implicit

Universality of maxims However, among thecontemporary linguists and philosophers there have been intreste in Grice’s view as it become the basic concept in pragmatics. They argue that his cooprative princiole and maxims cannot be generally to all uttrances applied due to intercultural differences, Keenan (1976). Keenan did some studies on Malagasy people and found that they are breaking the maxims of quantity mostly. They tend to be not following Grice princple accualy they were following the oppsite princple to achieve sucsse in conversation cooprative . And she supported that by providing a question and its reply as .
A: Where is your mother?
B: She is either in the house or at the market. Keenan