Author(s)

Ronggen Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Publishing and Printing College, Shanghai, China

Corresponding Author

Ronggen Zhang

ABSTRACT

This paper first introduces the category of the cooperative principle in conducting a conversation. Then, it illustrates how the principle is manipulated in interpreting irony, and irony is considered by Grice as an example of conversational implicature. Finally, it finds that this pragmatic account of irony as conversational implicature on the cooperative principle also seems to be insufficient. 

KEYWORDS

Irony, Discourse Analysis, Cooperative Principle

CITE THIS PAPER

Ronggen Zhang, Study of Irony on Cooperative Principle. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 1-5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060201.

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