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违反合作原则产生的特殊会话含义的具体事例
合作原则共包含四大准则，其下又分为若干小则，格莱斯曾指出，反语（irony）、隐喻（metaphor）、夸张（hyperbole）和缓叙（meiosis）都会最终导致合作原则的违反现象，现根据四大准则进行举例分析。
合作原则 Cooperative Principle
（一）量的准则 Maxim of Quantity
(1) 所说之话应包含交谈目的所需要的信息。Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purpose of the exchange；
(2)所说之话不应包含超出需要的信息。Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.
For example,
1. Earl: I just want to look nice for my son when he comes in.
Max: What? I am going to meet your kid?
Earl: Well, one of them.
Max:“One of them?” How many do you have?
Earl: So far?
Max: Oh, Earl, I love you.
Earl: This is my son, Darius. He is the No.1 Chrysler salesman in all of Detroit. And he is my very favorite if he is the one I’m thinking of.
(From Bankruptcy Sisters)
Analyze: This is a scene of Bankruptcy Sisters, Earl only told he dressed so decently to meet his son, but didn’t say clearly if Max would meet his son together, that`s why Max felt puzzled and asked him how many of his sons; then Earl answered“So far?” , until the last sentence he did tell the purpose for meeting his son and add another unnecessary message “ if he is the one I’m thinking of.” Because of the hiatus or the redundancy of their conversation, makes the audiences fall into a reverie and sets a humorous comedy atmosphere.

2. Caroline: Oh my God! Is he your father?
Max: Yes, he is my father. And my mother is a piece of chalk.
(From Bankruptcy Sisters)
Analyze: This is a conversation between Caroline and Max. Caroline asked if the man came into the cafe was Max’s father, Max answer “Yes” but add one more sentence “And my mother is piece of chalk.” which indicated the man was not Max ‘s father at all. Obviously, though this situation is typical message redundancy, it helps the listeners to understand the speaker’s real meaning and humor.

3.柳小姐之夫：老婆，请问一下你会不会打我？
柳小姐：我干嘛要打你啊？你又没做错事。如果我要真的打你的话，一定就是你做错事了。从现在开始，你只许疼我一个人，要宠我，不能骗我，答应我的每一件事情都要做到，对我讲的每一句话都要真心，不许欺负我、骂我，要相信我。别人欺负我，你要在第一时间出来帮我，我开心呢，你要陪着我开心；我不开心呢，你要哄我开心。永远觉得我是最漂亮的，梦里面也要见到我，在你的心里只有我！就是这样喽！（出自电影《河东狮吼》）
Analyze: In this conversation, Mrs.Liu had obeyed the maxim of quantity, the content of her answer was over the question requests. However, the extra message of her answer shows the true requirements of Mr.Liu, also makes the audiences realize Mrs.Liu’s personality.

4. A tourist hailed a bus at a request stop and asked the conductor, “What’s the fare to Regent’s Park?”
“5 pence,” said the conductor.
The tourist didn’t get on the bus, but instead ran along behind it after it pulled away. As he met the bus again at the next stop, he panted, “What’s the fare to Regent’s Park now?”
“10 pence,” said the conductor, “You’re running the wrong way.”
Analyze: In this funny story, the tourist was a niggard, tried to save money by running after bus and shorting the distance to his destination. At first, he asked the fare to his destination and was told “5 pence”; but after he ran tired out and asked again, then was told the fare had risen and he ran the wrong direction of his destination. It’s ascribed to the first time, the conductor did not tell details to the tourist, brought a misunderstanding to the tourist and the readers: as the tourist ran more that he could saved more money. Hence, the hiatus of the conversation makes a misunderstanding, the conductor obeyed the maxim of quantity, deceived the stingy tourist by omitting necessary information advisedly.

5. Liz: Jon, there’s something important I need to ask you. Something that I wouldn’t ask most guys who come in here.
Jon: Wait, no! I think I know where this is going.
Liz: You do?
Jon: I do. Liz, I’ve wanted to ask you the same thing for a very long time.
Liz: Are you sure that we’re talking about the same thing?
Jon: Absolutely. Yeah, uh, I’ve never been more sure of anything in my entire life.
Jon: Liz, I am ready to take a chance. I am ready for...
Liz: Thank you.
Jon: A dog! A dog! I’m ready for a dog.
(from movie GarfieldⅠ)
Analyze: In above conversation, Liz only said she had something to ask Jon but didn’t clear the details of it. And Jon was impatient to listen till the end, and then said he knew the content of that “something”. Until Liz held a dog needed to be adopted came out, Jon realized he had misunderstood. Apparently, Jon didn’t get enough information from Liz, so he misunderstood her and violated the maxim of quantity accidentally, which makes this talk dramatically.
(二）质原则（Maxim of Quantity):
(1)不要说自知虚假的话。Do not say what you believe to be false
(2)不要说证据不足的话。Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.
For examples:
1. The following is an AD:
Feeding Your Body and Starving Your Hair?
Aussie Hair insurance is a leave- in, multi-vitam in and mineral conditioning hair supplement that can nourish your hair from within.
... ...
If your hair is dry, frizzy or unmanageable..., maybe it’s just hungry!
Analyze: The slogan “Starving”of the AD usually used to describing human`s aspiration of food. However, this AD used the word to describe hair was obeyed the maxim of quality, giving the obvious fake information to people to attract them, by this, this violation becomes meaningful.

2 The following is an AD:
Sophisticated,
Sweet-to-drink Pink Lady
Analyze: This AD slogan created a metaphor by obeying the maxim of quality. “Pink Lady” is a brand of deluxe wine, the word “Sophisticated” means superior. But “Sophisticated” generally uses to embellishing a person but other things, so it breaks the maxim of quality indeed. On the other hand, “Pink Lady” also means beautiful lady, so that the using of “Sophisticated” was reasonable; and yet the “Sweet-to-drink” would violate the maxim of quality. Due to these twofold violations, this AD shows a very different sense: if we compare the wine to beautiful lady, that would be fairy and elegant. The AD mixed them up, thereby appealing readers to dreaming about this wine brand. Though it violates the maxim of quality, it wins the attention of costumers.

3. The following is a slogan in a shoes shop:
A room for 5 toes

Analyze: The slogan is a great parallelism. Rooms are the space for people doing activities, and shoes are the space for toes to stay, that is the similarity of these two. By this similarity, readers can easily understand the meaning of the slogan; moreover, rooms give people the impression about comfortable and safe, so the shoes do. Thus, readers associate from the rooms to the shoes——both are shelters, then deep into their similarity——both giving protection. With the desire of be protected, people will be willing to buy the shoes. If changes the “room” to “box” or “pot”, readers can understand the meaning too, but it cannot create a emotional association to be a successful metaphor, which only break the maxim of quality but not to be a good AD.

4. 韦小宝：各位观众，谢谢各位凑得这么近、站得这么直听我说书，真是太给面子啦。今天要说的人物就是天地会的总舵主陈近南，所谓平生不见陈近南，便称英雄也枉然。他身高八尺，腰围也是八尺。
众人：哇！那岂不是四方了吗？
韦小宝：四方就四方，一样米养百样人八角形的都有。我告诉你！他武功的名堂呢，称之为“九天十地菩萨摇头怕怕霹雳金光雷电掌”！一掌打出，方圆百里之内，不论人畜、虾蟹、跳蚤，全部化成了飞灰啊！（出自电影《鹿鼎记》）
Analyze: According the maxim of quality, Wei should answer the question honestly based the truth but his own imagination. With this hyperbole expression, Wei attracted people’s attention resourcefully, although he violated the maxim of quality.

5. During the height of a particularly severe air-raid in London in 1940, the staff of a large building was taking shelter in the basement. The raid had been on progress for several hours and bombs were still falling. Suddenly one of the typists said to her friend, “come on, Gladys, I’m not stopping here any longer. It’s 5 o’clock. It`s time to go home, raid or not raid.”
Out they went but within a couple of minutes they were back again.
“Change your mind?” asked one of the other typists.
“Yes,” said the first girl. “We’ve no umbrella and it’s pouring with rain outside.”
Analyze: These two girls in this story could not stand the endless air-raid and stayed at the basement any longer, and one of them decided to go home, no matter the air-raid end or not. Maybe we will think that girl is a brave one, however, she backed, said because of she had no umbrella and outside were rain pouring that could not leave. The ending of this story is really ironical, the girl is so brave that can ignore the death, but stopping by the rain; the huge contrast of that girl’s images has produced a clownish reaction. The reason the story can produce a clownish reaction is it ignoring the dangerous conception but emphasizing the negligible things (raining), which violates the maxim of quality.
(三）关系原则（Maxim of Relation）：要有关联，要切合题。
Be relevant, and connecting to the theme.
For examples:
1. Scene: Max was serving the customer
Max: Hi, ready to order?
Customer: Do you have anything that’s real special?
Max: Not according my high school guidance counselor.
(From Bankruptcy Sisters)
Analyze: Max is asking if the customer ready to order food, and the customer wants to know if the restaurant has any special dish. What’s for fun, Max misinterprets the meaning purposely to violate the maxim of relation, and helps the audiences realize the funny point.
2. Two rather deaf old gentlemen were traveling on the underground. As the train drew into Wembley Station, one of them shouted,
“Is this Wembley?”
“No,” shouted the other, “it’s Thursday!”
“What did you say?”
“Thursday————Thursday!”
“Yes, so am I, shall we get off here and have a drink?”
Analyze: From the above conversation we know that those two old gentlemen are both deaf, so they cannot hear each other clearly. One of them asked if there was the Wembley Station, another heard as if today was Wednesday，because the pronunciation of “Wembley”are close to “Wednesday”. Then the one who answered “Thursday” had repeated his answer over and over again, made the first one of them thought that man was thirsty, so he suggested to get off to have a drink. In this joke, both of them are replying irrelevant information and violating the maxim of relation, with this result to make readers laugh.
3. Jamal Malik: “Come run with me.”
Latika: “Run? Where? Life of what?”
(From movie Slumdog Millionaire)
Analyze: For Jamal’s ask, Latika should be only answer “Yes, I’ll run with you.” or “No, I won’t run with you.” Instead of these two appropriate answers, Latika replied irrelevantly that violating the maxim of relation.
4. Luca: You’re on the wrong side of the street, fat cat. Beat it
Garfield: And you, Luca, the wrong side of the evolutionary curve.
(from movie GarfieldⅠ)
Analyze: The conversation between Garfield and dog Luca, the greedy cat——Garfield wanted to steal the cake from Luca’s home. When Luca warned Garfield shouldn’t come across the street (on the wrong side of the street), and Garfield replied him that he was on the wrong side of evolutionary curve. Garfield did not tell the reason why he came the other side of the street but say Luca is the failure of evolutionary curve, which satirize Luca is ugly. The jape comes from the violation of the maxim of relation.

5. Jon: What am I gonna do with you?
Garfield: Love me. Feed me. Never leave me.
Jon: Come on. Let’s go for a ride to some place you love...
(from movie GarfieldⅠ)
Analyze: This talk happened after Garfield had ate four boxes of spaghetti which should be Jon’s. In order to punish Garfield, Jon asked how should he treat Garfield as the cat had ate his spaghetti; what’s unexpected, Garfield didn’t say sorry to Jon but something irrelevant about his greedy act. As the reply of Garfield violates the maxim of relation has amused the audiences .

（四）方式原则（Maxim of Manner）：要清楚明白。 The conversation should be clear and reasonable.
（1）避免晦涩。Avoiding obscurity .
（2）避免歧义。Avoiding ambiguity.
（3）简明扼要，井井有条。Be brief ( avoid unnecessary prolixity), and be orderly.
For examples:

1. Jenny: Are you stupid or something?
Forrest: Mamma says that stupid is as stupid does.
(from Forrest Gump)
Analyze: According the maxim of manner,, the content of the answer should be clear and precise, but Forrest’s reply is ambiguous and vague, so he breaks the maxim of manner.

2. Max: What? No way. No way. Is this Narnia? I’m about to say something I swore I’d never say. “O.M.G. Again O.M.G.” It’s lame, but nothing else really nails it. This is the room that O.M.G.was born for.
Caroline: Max, it’s just my closet.
(from Bankruptcy Sisters)
Analyze: Max compares Caroline’s closet as Narnia, to express her surprise that her never saw such luxury room and closet before, just like being in the Heaven, and says “on, my god” repeatedly as “O.M.G.”. Though it violates the maxim of manner, it does make the audience laughing.
3. Garfield: This is exactly what I deserve anyway. I promise if I survive, I’ll never compete with a dog again. Okay! You got me! But before I say goodbye...Oh, isn’t it the final irony?
(from movie GarfieldⅠ)
Analyze: This scene happened at the dogs exhibition, Garfield was chased by a group of dogs. “...I promise if I survive, I’ll never compete with a dog again...” this sentence has used equivoque to make a misinterpretation. On the one hand, it can be understood as Garfield should not come to the dogs exhibition to compete with dogs; On the other hand, it can be read as Garfield should not compete with dog Odie. This sentence didn’t clear its meaning, violate the maxim of manner which requires avoiding ambiguity.
4. Dog；Hey, Boomer, I really gotta run.
Garfield: Gotta fly, everybody. Really, please, stay behind the security fences. So great of you to come out to see me...but I’ve got somebody waiting for me, very devoted, almost crippled. No, please, don’t cry. I know what it’s like to be unloved. Well, you do. I’ll try to come back and visit, and if I don’t, I’ll try to write. Bye-bye.
Dog: Does anybody know this guy?
(from movie GarfieldⅠ)
Analyze: This is a talk between Garfield and the animals in pets’ clinic. In general, as Garfield had said these words, meant he should had knew those dogs and cats. However, one of the dogs asked if anybody knew Garfield, that revealed no one knew Garfield, and this indicates Garfield wants to show off the delightful life about he and Jon. This conversation obeys the maxim of manner which requires be orderly, makes the audience feeling grotesquerie.

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