Review article
Implicatures in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice
Lucijana Armanda
; Posgraduate (Doctoral) Study Program of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This work analyses different kinds of implicatures that appear in the novel Pride and Prejudice. The implicatures are related to the cooperative principle and its maxims, because these notions play an important role in the recognition of implicatures. The analysis brings us to the conclusion that the speakers in this novel often flout maxims and that their conversations are full of implicatures. Speakers orient themselves towards the cooperative principle, but it doesn't mean that they are always cooperating. Numerous implicatures are a clear sign of the novel’s high quality. This work is based on the cooperation between pragmatics and literature.
Keywords
maxims; implicatures; the cooperative principle; dialogues’ interpretation; play on words and dialogue; hidden meanings; irony; lying; motivation for flouting a maxim
Hrčak ID:
174614
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Publication date:
1.12.2011.
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