Grice On Stage

Speranza

Grice's theory of the Cooperative Principle of Conversation and the Language of Punjabi Theatre: A Pragmatic Analysis
by Furrakh Abbas 

Abbas's research aims to apply the Gricean theory of Co-operative Principle to the language of Punjabi stage drama.

It analyzes how the Gricean work of application of conversational maxims and formation of implicatures play a significant role in the interpretation of the utterances spoken in the play.

It studies the difference between implicit and explicit meanings through the bridge of implicature and disimplicature and how the language is manipulated to create special effects in the Punjabi stage dramas.

It also draws a gender perspective on the flouting of conversation maxims.

The application of the theory involves a blend of qualitative and quantitative methods for the present study.

The quantitative part deals with calculating the flouts on each conversational maxim.

The qualitative methodology involves the discussion on the formation of implicatures by flouts of the conversational maxims and the factors that play an important role in the study of implicatures.

Mr. Furrakh Abbas has done MS / MPhil in Applied Linguistics and is a PhD scholar working on his PhD dissertation these days.

He has been associated in the capacity of part as well as full time Lecturer with Institutes like Kinnaird College, Lahore; IER, University of the Punjab, Lahore; UMT, Lahore; and Lahore Leads University, Lahore in Pakistan.