Non-observance of Grice’s Maxims in Noam Chomsky's Political Interviews: A Pragma-discoursal Study

Abstract

      The current study is dedicated for the sake of investigating non-observance of Grice's maxims in Noam Chomsky's political interviews. Accordingly, five extracts from four political interviews with Noam Chomsky  are elected to be analyzed from a pragma-discoursal perspective. The study aims at examining the dominant non-observance strategy that Noam Chomsky uses for the sake of breaking the Grice's maxims .Besides , tracing out the phenomena that results because of not observing Grice's maxims and revealing the most frequently used ones. So far, there is  no preceding  attention has given to Noam Chomsky's interviews, moreover, there has been no  former works seek detecting the phenomena that may result because of  breaking Grice's  maxims. As such  , this study tries to investigate the phenomena that result because of Noam Chomsky's choice not to follow the cooperative principle. For the sake of  accomplishing this aim, the researcher elects the modal from: Schiffrin(1997) approaches to discourse analysis ,Grice's modal (1975) of cooperative principle and non-observance strategies, Ju Noh’s (2000) model of  metarepresentational use of language, Yule’s (1996) classification of types of presupposition , Salager-Meyer (1995) taxonomy of hedging, and Alexandra (2004)  system of information sources and evidentiality, Searle classification of speech act.