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

Language is the most important tool for humans municate. munication came into being with the starting of human society due to the needs of humansurviving and developing. At the same time, munication plays a very important role in the maintaining and developing of human society. With the development of society and advancement of science and technology, munication will play a more and more important role in the course of munication.
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 munication of daily life,I link munication 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 munication of daily life.
Cooperative Principle Theory proposed by Grice is a very important theory in pragmatics. It has a powerful explanatory power on the munication. The CP can be widely used. It can explain various pragmatics phenomena in language understanding. From the CP perspective, I discuss the munication and its application in real munication. 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 munication from two aspects: essful munication and pragmatic failure. Then it deals with the principles we must follow in munication 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 petence. Thus this thesis can help us avoid the pragmatic failure municate essfully.
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Cooperative Principle Theory proposed by Grice is a very important theory in Pragmatics. It has a powerful explanatory power on the munication. The CP c