An Investigation of the Flouting of Grice's Maxims with Reference to Capital TalkShow on Geo TV Private Channel of Pakistan.

Autor: Asif, Muhammad, Zhiyong, Deng, Majeed, Samrina, Rasool, Samma Faiz, Nisar, Maria
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Zdroj: Pakistan Vision; 2019, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p338-364, 27p
Abstrakt: This study aimed to investigate the flouting of Grice's maxims in TV Talk Show "Capital Talk." on Geo TV. The data was in the form of an interview. The researcher watched the talk show (Capital Talk) and selected anepisode of April 11, 2016, as the sample of this research. Characters in this interview were Hamid Mir (host of TV talk show Capital Talk) and Imran Khan (Chairman of PTI) as a guest. Methods used in analyzing the data in this study were qualitative and descriptive methods. These methods were groundedon the theory of Conversational Maxims or Cooperative Principle proposed by Grice (2013). From the analysis conducted, the researcher investigated the characteristics and structure of language used by Hamid Mir (host) and Imran Khan (guest).The researcher investigated the flouting of Grice's maxims. In the end, the result shows that the language used by Imran Khan is more political, the four maxims which have been investigating by the researcher were flouted 41 times in Imran Khan's (guest) conversation during an interview with Hamid Mir (host). The maxim of quantity is flouted 18 times, the maxim of quality is floutedtwo times, the maxim of manner is flouted 11 times, and the maxim of relation is floutedten times. In the end, the researcher also concluded that qualitative maxim was mostly dominated maxims flouted in this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index