Grice's Maxim Analysis

Literary texts have special features than other texts. Grice’s maxims can be considered as the borderline between the literary text and normal (conventional) text. If these maxims were broken then we will get a literary text. They can be broken by deviation and parallelism. By this the reader can find the aesthetic touches in the text. In these papers, you as a reader will be convinced that breaking Grice’s maxims and using deviation can give the text its literariness sense. Here is a text that breaks these maxims and become a poetry (literary) text.

First of all, Paul Grice put a theory of Conversational Implicature where he proposed four conversational maxims. These maxims give the texts its literariness. The first one is the maxim of

It gives the poem its literariness and shows the poem’s aesthetic. It also differs from the language of everyday and poetry language. The poet plays with the language to create specific ideas in his reader’s minds. The creative use of the language called the language deviation. Language deviation has many kinds for example, lexical deviation, grammatical deviation, phonological deviation, graphological deviation and semantic deviation. Firstly the lexical deviation is associated with neologism. The neologism is the creation of new words by the poet and these words can be divided to two parts. They can be words that consider as a part of the dictionary or the can be Nonce-formation which mean that they only uses in a specific time or place or specific occasion and despaired after that. Moreover, affixation is part of lexical deviation and it divided to prefixation and suffixation. In affixation, the poet just adds before a word is already exist (prefix) or after that word (suffix). Another way of showing lexical deviation is compounding, that means putting together two or more words to make one compound. The second kind of deviation is the grammatical deviation which associated with syntactic and morphological deviation. Morphological deviation is intentional deviation from the ordinary formation, application of words, spelling and construction. Nevertheless, syntactic deviation can be a bad or incorrect grammar. There are two categories in grammatical deviation, they are structures and deep and surface structure. Structure should be (subject-verb-object-circumstance), they should be in this order but in poetry this rule can be violate by putting the adjective after the noun (adjectives should be before the noun. the other category is deep and surface structure where the grammar can be incorrect. Phonological Deviation is the third kind of deviation. Phonological deviation is to study the sound pattern in the language where the