A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF THE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE AND GRICE\u27S MAXIMS IN LOIS LOWRY\u27S THE GIVER

The purpose of this study is to examine the language of literary texts based on the pragmatic theories; Cooperative Principle and Grice\u27s maxims. The researcher collected data from a science fiction novel, The Giver by Los Lowry. The findings reveal that most of the time, Lowry made the characters disobey Grice\u27s maxims and the Cooperative Principle. Observance of the maxims was less than failure to observe the maxims. Lowry had her characters fail to observe the maxims for specific purposes such as generating new implicatures, hiding the truth for a period, or persuading and convincing the readers about a message Lowry wanted to convey