A socio-cognitive reinterpretation of Grice’s theory of conversation

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Intercultural Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI:10.1515/ip-2024-0004

Yanwei Hu

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Pragmatics research has been following two separate lines: the cognitive-philosophical line and the sociocultural-interactional line. Joining recent efforts of integration in pragmatics research, this paper reinterprets from a socio-cognitive perspective Grice’s theory of conversation (the Cooperative Principle with attendant maxims). The paper aims to incorporate social considerations into the theory, in the hope of enhancing its explanatory potential for information exchange in real-life discourse contexts. Focusing on cooperation as process, this paper examines Grice’s theory of conversation in connection with his theory of meaning and looks into the social-normative basis of the conversational behavior predicted by Grice. The conversational maxims can be characterized as socio-cognitive in the sense of being both cognitive and normative. They are normative expectations whose breach commits the speaker to interpretive and social consequences. The maxims used to be thought of in terms of a simple dichotomy: they are either observed or not observed, and non-observance has often been equated with non-cooperation. The paper draws attention to the fact that non-observance comes in different types (violating, opting out, flouting, and so on). It matters communicatively and extra-communicatively which type the non-observance falls into, as different types of non-observance have different interpretive and social consequences.

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从社会认知角度重新解读格莱斯的会话理论

语用学研究一直遵循两条不同的路线：认知-哲学路线和社会文化-互动路线。本文从社会认知的角度重新诠释了格莱斯的会话理论（合作原则及相关格言），加入了近年来语用学研究的整合努力。本文旨在将社会因素纳入该理论，希望能增强其在现实话语语境中解释信息交流的潜力。本文以作为过程的合作为重点，将格莱斯的会话理论与其意义理论联系起来进行研究，并探讨格莱斯所预测的会话行为的社会规范基础。会话格言具有社会认知的特点，既是认知性的，又是规范性的。会话格言是一种规范性的期望，如果违背了这种期望，说话者就会承担解释性后果和社会后果。格言过去被认为是简单的二分法：要么遵守，要么不遵守，而不遵守往往等同于不合作。本文提请大家注意，不遵守有不同的类型（违反、选择不遵守、藐视等）。由于不同类型的不遵守行为会产生不同的解释性后果和社会后果，因此，不遵守行为属于哪种类型在交流和交流外都很重要。

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期刊介绍： Intercultural Pragmatics is a fully peer-reviewed forum for theoretical and applied pragmatics research. The goal of the journal is to promote the development and understanding of pragmatic theory and intercultural competence by publishing research that focuses on general theoretical issues, more than one language and culture, or varieties of one language. Intercultural Pragmatics encourages ‘interculturality’ both within the discipline and in pragmatic research. It supports interaction and scholarly debate between researchers representing different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and interlanguage paradigms. The intercultural perspective is relevant not only to each line of research within pragmatics but also extends to several other disciplines such as anthropology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology, communication, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism. Intercultural Pragmatics makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries. What we primarily look for is innovative approaches and ideas that do not always fit into existing paradigms, and lead to new ways of thinking about language. Intercultural Pragmatics has always encouraged the publication of theoretical papers including linguistic and philosophical pragmatics that are very important for research in intercultural pragmatics.