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Date Posted: 07:09:27 10/01/09 Thu
Author: Antonio Luiz Balbino Neto
Subject: On Grice's Maxims

One important aspect of acquiring pragmatics, for me, is tied to Grice's Maxims, which are shown on both paper and PowerPoint presentation, but I would like to question something:
Those maxims are well known, and we have had a brief exercise on them at the beginning of this course. These maxims are really expected to happen when basic communications is being carried out. That is, if all the elements of communication (communicator, communicatee, message, channel and feedback) are recognizable, it will be not a big deal. At the point of of them fails, or is meant to be deleted, pragmatics shows itself. Isn't it exactly what happens with jokes, for example? So, knowing loads of grammar or vocabulary won't be enough to get the idea straight if there is no "intersubjectivety relationship" established, or in other words, communitication is not just a matter of uttering/writting a chain of words, but giving them power to perform things, or have them done, through discourse. It is when those forces (locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary) play a big role. So, teaching simple language is quite easy, but discovering how endowed with life it is, must be our great challenge to overcome.

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