A Pragmatic Study on English Listening Comprehension from the Perspective of Grice’s Conversational Implicature Theory in High School: -- Taking Texts on “Travel” as an Example

Junjiao Yang

doi:10.54097/hz2v3r60

Authors

Junjiao Yang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/hz2v3r60

Keywords:

Conversational Implicature Theory, Cooperative Principle, Pragmatic Study

Abstract

For high school students, English listening is a crucial part of English examinations. Over the years, researchers all over the world have made significant contributions to the study of English listening, and they have found that conversational implicature theory can be applied to listening instruction to make students understand the implicit meaning of conversations. But previous studies have usually failed to summarize the main features of conversations that violate the principle of cooperation and lack corresponding suggestions for listening instruction. In this paper, the high school English listening texts related to travel will be studied from the perspective of conversational implicature theory. With careful analysis, the characteristics of the listening text are summarized. The text always adds new information, reject invitation euphemistically or using complex sentences by violating cooperative principle. In addition, a quantitative analysis of the text on the theme of "travel" that violates the cooperative principle is carried out, which leads to corresponding teaching suggestions: teachers should introduce relevant pragmatics knowledge in listening teaching, and students are obliged to pay attention to the accumulation of cultural knowledge when learning English.

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