FLOUTING GRICE'S COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE IN A POLITICAL INTERVIEW (TRUMP'S INTERVIEW WITH TIME ON 2020)

Abstract

Communication refers to the process of transmitting messages between at least two communicators. Communication involves both linguistic facts like produced sentences and non-linguistic facts including meaning and condition. In order to have a successful conversation, the mentioned elements should work together with the communicators' information. as a matter of fact, people communicate their emotions and feelings because communication reflects an intimate exchange between them. Therefore, many pragmatic theories believe that individuals have advanced expertise that leads them to choose those terms in various circumstances through their conversations. Accordingly, this study aims to apply Grice's Cooperative Principle which represents an important theory in this discipline in a political interview of Donald Trump's Interview With TIME in 2020. The statistical findings mirror that the four maxims including quantity, relevance, quality, and manner maxims are flouted by the president respectively. It is concluded that the main aim behind the flouting of maxims is to attract the intention of the listeners to the significance of the utterances that are not explicitly stated in the words uttered.