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Cooperation Principle In The Story Of Forrest Gump

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Analyses of Politeness Principle and Cooperation Principle in the Story of Forrest Gump The principle of cooperation was proposed by the American famous language philosopher, Grice, in a 1967 speech at Harvard University. In the process of communication, Grice says, the two sides seem to be following a certain principle, intentionally and unintentionally, in order to effectively cooperate and accomplish communication tasks. Therefore, Grice has put forward the Cooperative Principle (CP) in the conversation. This fundamental principle can be embodied in four guidelines, including quantitative guidelines, quality guidelines, association guidelines and guidelines. However, in the actual daily life, people do not always follow these four guidelines, …show more content…

But Grice doesn 't explain why people violate the cooperative principle. After that, Leech put forward the "politeness principles", according to the principle of people deliberately violates the cooperative principle in language …show more content…

What to say and how to understand each other in communication intended to break a rule for the implication, but the people in the process of actual use of language is often violate the cooperative principle. Most of the time, people have to talk around the corner and use a lot of indirect speech acts to communicate. In this story, the hero Forrest Gump is an IQ only 75 of the mentally disabled, in shaping the character image, the author grasps the characteristics of both in the level of vocabulary, syntax, and the pragmatic level which all show the professionalism and the accuracy of the discourse design. Especially in the use of pragmatic skills, the author elaborates character dialogue, cleverly violates the cooperative principle, and creates conversational implicature, but also shows the American humor. Jenny is the best friend of Gump, Forrest Gump participates in the Vietnam War, and he is met by President Johnson as a hero. And he meets with Jenny on a peace rally, Forrest Gump shows love to Jenny, but Jenny doesn’t accept it. Forrest: I would never hurt you,

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