Grice’s Contribution to Pragmatics
Question (100 marks)
There are three related questions below. Answer all three questions in your essay:
- Discuss critically Grice contribution to pragmatics, pragmatic competence and interlanguage pragmatics. (30%)
- Distinguish the various ways a maxim may be flouted under Grice’s cooperative principle. (35%)
- Analyse whether flouting is a cooperative act in relation to learner’s interlanguage and difficulties with pragmatic competence. (35%)
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Student Sample Answer:
The first part of the essay defines pragmatics and critically discuses Grice’s contribution about/ to pragmatic, pragmatic competence and interlanguage competence. The second part of the essay conveys the various ways in which a maxim may be flouted under Grice’s cooperative principal. Finally, it analyses whether flouting is a cooperative act to learners of interlanguage and their pragmatic competence….Continue Reading….