GRICE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE BY MAXIMS

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Grice’s Cooperative Principle and maxims of conversation

As humans we are social beings and when we talk we usually talk with or to others (unless we do a monologue). Paul Grice, an English language philosophe, argues that speakers intend to be cooperative when they talk. For Grice, cooperative means that the speaker knows that each utterance is a potential interference in the personal rights, autonomy and wishes ( a potential face-threatening act) of the other. That is why we have to shape our utterances in a certain way. Grice formulated theprinciple of cooperation that underlies conversation, as follows:

Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at wich it occurs, by the accepted pupose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged(Grice 1975:45)

Grice’s cooperative principle is a set of norms that are expected in conversations. It consists of four maxims, we have to follow in order to be cooperative and understood:

Maxim of quality : As speaker we have to tell the truth or something that is provable by adequate evidence.

Maxim of quanity: We have to be as informative as required, we should not say more or less.

Maxim of relation: Our response has to be relevant to the topic of discussion.

Maxim of manner: We have to avoid ambiguity or obscurity; we should be direct and straightforward.

Example

Yet, successful communication does not only depend on WHAT we are saying but also on HOW we are saying something!

DEFINITION OF PRAGMATICS

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 Leech (1983: 6) states that
pragmatics is the study of meanings in relation to speech situation.
Levinson (1983: 5) defines that pragmatics is the study of language use,
that is the study of relation between language and context which is basic to an
account of language understanding which involves the making of inferences which
will connect what is said to what is mutually assumed or what has been said
before. Pragmatics can also solve the problem between the speaker and the hearer,
especially the problem about point of view.
Leech (1983:36) states that pragmatics
involves problem solving both from the speaker’s point of view and from the
hearer’s point of view. The problem of speaker’s point of view is how to produce
an utterance which will make the result.

"From the opinions of the experts and my lecturer's explanation, I can conclude that pragmatics is something that has meaning. Where pragmatics speak based on situations and conditions according to their views directly without thinking long."

Introduction to syntax

Syntax is the part of linguistics that studies the structure and formation of sentences. It explains how words and phrases are arranged to form correct sentences. A sentence could make no sense and still be correct from the syntax point of view as long as words are in their appropriate spots and agree with each other. Here is a classic example by Noam Chomsky, a linguist, that illustrates a case in which a sentence is correct but does not make sense:

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

To create grammatically correct and acceptable English sentences, we have to follow the English rules for syntax.

Types of Syntax (Sentence Structures)

Types of sentences and their syntax modes include simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences. Compound sentences are two simple sentences joined by a conjunction. Complex sentences have dependent clauses, and compound-complex sentences have both types included.

Simple sentence: The girl ran. Structure: Subject-verb.

Compound sentence: The girl ran the marathon, and her cousin did, too. Structure: Subject-verb-object-conjunction-subject-verb.

Complex sentence: Although they were tired after the marathon, the cousins decided to go to a celebration at the park. Structure: Dependent clause-subject-verb-object.

Compound-complex sentence: Although they weren't fond of crowds, this was different, they decided, because of the common goal that had brought everyone together. Structure: Four clauses, dependent and independent

William Blake Biography

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William Blake

(1757-1827)

William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, to James, a hosier, and Catherine Blake. Two of his six siblings died in infancy. From early childhood, Blake spoke of having visions—at four he saw God "put his head to the window"; around age nine, while walking through the countryside, he saw a tree filled with angels. Although his parents tried to discourage him from "lying," they did observe that he was different from his peers and did not force him to attend conventional school. He learned to read and write at home. At age ten, Blake expressed a wish to become a painter, so his parents sent him to drawing school. Two years later, Blake began writing poetry. When he turned fourteen, he apprenticed with an engraver because art school proved too costly. One of Blake's assignments as apprentice was to sketch the tombs at Westminster Abbey, exposing him to a variety of Gothic styles from which he would draw inspiration throughout his career. After his seven-year term ended, he studied briefly at the Royal Academy.
In 1782, he married an illiterate woman named Catherine Boucher. Blake taught her to read and to write, and also instructed her in draftsmanship. Later, she helped him print the illuminated poetry for which he is remembered today; the couple had no children.

In 1784 he set up a printshop with a friend and former fellow apprentice, James Parker, but this venture failed after several years. For the remainder of his life, Blake made a meager living as an engraver and illustrator for books and magazines. In addition to his wife, Blake also began training his younger brother Robert in drawing, painting, and engraving. Robert fell ill during the winter of 1787 and succumbed, probably to consumption. As Robert died, Blake saw his brother's spirit rise up through the ceiling, "clapping its hands for joy." He believed that Robert's spirit continued to visit him and later claimed that in a dream Robert taught him the printing method that he used in Songs of Innocence and other "illuminated" works.

Blake's first printed work, Poetical Sketches (1783), is a collection of apprentice verse, mostly imitating classical models. The poems protest against war, tyranny, and King George III's treatment of the American colonies. He published his most popular collection, Songs of Innocence, in 1789 and followed it, in 1794, with Songs of Experience. Some readers interpret Songs of Innocencein a straightforward fashion, considering it primarily a children's book, but others have found hints at parody or critique in its seemingly naive and simple lyrics. Both books of Songs were printed in an illustrated format reminiscent of illuminated manuscripts. The text and illustrations were printed from copper plates, and each picture was finished by hand in watercolors.

In 1800 Blake moved to the seacoast town of Felpham, where he lived and worked until 1803 under the patronage of William Hayley. He taught himself Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Italian, so that he could read classical works in their original language. In Felpham he experienced profound spiritual insights that prepared him for his mature work, the great visionary epics written and etched between about 1804 and 1820. Milton (1804-08), Vala, or The Four Zoas (1797; rewritten after 1800), and Jerusalem (1804-20) have neither traditional plot, characters, rhyme, nor meter. They envision a new and higher kind of innocence, the human spirit triumphant over reason.

Blake believed that his poetry could be read and understood by common people, but he was determined not to sacrifice his vision in order to become popular. In 1808 he exhibited some of his watercolors at the Royal Academy, and in May of 1809 he exhibited his works at his brother James's house. Some of those who saw the exhibit praised Blake's artistry, but others thought the paintings "hideous" and more than a few called him insane. Blake's poetry was not well known by the general public, but he was mentioned in A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland, published in 1816. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had been lent a copy of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, considered Blake a "man of Genius," and Wordsworth made his own copies of several songs. Charles Lamb sent a copy of "The Chimney Sweeper" from Songs of Innocence to James Montgomery for his Chimney-Sweeper's Friend, and Climbing Boys' Album (1824), and Robert Southey (who, like Wordsworth, considered Blake insane) attended Blake's exhibition and included the "Mad Song" from Poetical Sketches in his miscellany, The Doctor (1834-1837).

Blake's final years, spent in great poverty, were cheered by the admiring friendship of a group of younger artists who called themselves "the Ancients." In 1818 he met John Linnell, a young artist who helped him financially and also helped to create new interest in his work. It was Linnell who, in 1825, commissioned him to design illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, the cycle of drawings that Blake worked on until his death in 1827.

Poetry

All Religions Are One (1788)
America, a Prophecy (1793)
Europe, a Prophecy (1794)
For Children: The Gates of Paradise(1793)
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise(1820)
Poetical Sketches (1783)
Songs of Experience (1794)
Songs of Innocence (1789)
The Book of Ahania (1795)
The Book of Los (1795)
The First Book of Urizen (1794)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell(1790)
The Song of Los (1795)
There Is No Natural Religion (1788)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion(1793)

Read poems by this poet

1. 1789 - The Ecchoing Green
2. 1789 - Infant Joy
3. 1789 - The Chimney-Sweeper
4. 1789 - The Lamb
5. 1789 - The Divine Image
6. 1783 - To Summer
7. 1783 - To Winter
8. 1783 - To Autumn
9. 1908 - The Angel that presided 'oer my birth
10. 1905 - The Question Answered
11. 1901 - The Angel
12. 1880 - Eternity
13. 1863 - Love's Secret
14. 1863 - Auguries of Innocence
15. 1811 - Milton [excerpt]
16. 1794 - Ah! Sunflower
17. 1794 - Holy Thursday
18. 1794 – London
19. 1794 - Cradle Song
20. 1794 - The Tyger
21. 1794 - The Sick Rose
22. 1794 - The Fly
23. 1794 - A Divine Image
24. 1794 - A Poison Tree
25. 1793 - America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4
26. 1790 - Proverbs of Hell




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