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Approaching Characters through Conversation :An Application of Co-operative Principles to Tom Stoppard sProfessional Foul

jassim, majeed h. university of basra - college of education for humanities - english language dept., Iraq , talib, shurooq hameed university of basra - college of education for humanities - english language dept., Iraq

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The present study demonstrates how pragmatic models can be used to analyze dramatic conversations . In analyzing a character s conversational behaviour ,the researchers traceGrice s cooperative principles and its four attendants maximswhich serve as an objective constituent of this research to the conversations in Tom Stoppard s play Professional Foul. The researchers handle some excerpts of the play which form a continuous sequence of beginning, middle and end of events. The play is divided into three parts according to the progression of the plot and the development of the characters. The conversation of the major and minor characters is analyzed. The study centers on the ways in which Stoppard s characters obey Grice s cooperative principles and provide reasons for not doing so .The study arrives at some conclusions concerning the model presented in the work.

Approaching Characters , through Conversation , Application of Co-operative Principles , Tom Stoppard sProfessional Foul

2017

مجله ابحاث البصره للعلوم الانسانيه