Flouting of Cooperative Principles in the Style of Evasion: A Pragmatics & Linguistic Study

Dr . Rami Jamil Salim

Abstract

Abstract

The style of Evasion is typically described as the conversational relationship in which the direction of speech diverts from the direct purpose of discourse and, hence, can be analyzed in lenses of pragmatics. Some of noticeable principles of pragmatics that focus on disruption of the conversational process are Grice’s cooperative principles: quantity, quality, maxim of relation, and manner, assuming that speakers infringe rules rather than obeying them. For the nature of the subject, this study was divided into two parts: the theoretical section introduced the evasion style, its definition, types and illustrative examples, in addition to a glance on Grice’s cooperative principles .The action part analyzed representative examples of the evasion style in light of Grice’s cooperative principles, along with analysis of pragmatic concepts related with Grice’s principles including politeness principle, conversation implicature, situation, and face-threatening act (FTA).

This study concluded that the Arabic rhetorical concepts such as the evasion style are valid for analysis in light of pragmatic maxims of cooperation, and such analysis holds rhetorical and argumentative value in finding out the quip, dictum, and axiom words as require the situational conversation implicature  of the evasion style.

Further, in case any of the cooperative maxims is broken, the rhetorical purposes implied in the evasion style are not single, as the research suggests, but are multiple, for instance, suggesting privilege, importance, relevance, phase out, courteousness, wittiness, and politeness.