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A Study on the Pragmatic Mechanism of English Daily Negative Evaluation from the Perspective of Grice’s Conversational Principle: Exemplified by Utterances in Friends
- Authors: Shixun Guo
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Information:
Qingdao City University, Qingdao
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Keywords:
Cooperative Principle; Conversational Implicature; Quality Maxim; Manner Maxim; Friends
- Abstract: This study examines the euphemistic generation mechanisms of negative evaluation in English daily utterances, grounded in Grice’s Cooperative Principle with Friends as the corpus. Findings reveal that speakers primarily generate Conversational Implicature through strategic violations of the Quality Maxim and Manner Maxim, alongside verbal irony, prompting hearers to derive particularized implicature. This mechanism facilitates the polite conveyance of negative intent.
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.35534/lin.0703018
- Cite: Guo, S. X. (2025). A Study on the Pragmatic Mechanism of English Daily Negative Evaluation from the Perspective of Grice’s Conversational Principle: Exemplified by Utterances in Friends. Linguistics, 7(3), 180-185.
