A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF THE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE AND GRICE'S MAXIMS IN LOIS LOWRY'S THE GIVER
The purpose of this study is to examine the language of literary texts based on the pragmatic theories; Cooperative Principle and Grice's maxims. The researcher collected data from a science fiction novel, The Giver by Los Lowry. The findings reveal that most of the time, Lowry made the charact...
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OpenSIUC
2013
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| Online Access: | https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1288 https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2302&context=theses |