Prison Movies&Implicature: Chow Time or Observing the Maxim of Quantity
Prison Movies&Implicature: Chow Time or Observing the Maxim of Quantity
Author(s): Gabriel BărbuleţSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: Cooperative Principle; The Maxim of Quantity; implicature; movies
Summary/Abstract: The present paper deals with one of Paul Grice’s Cooperative Principle – The Maxim of Quantity. Apart from the theoretical background we have tried to show how this maxim can be shown at work in some prison movies.
Journal: Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica
- Issue Year: 9/2008
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 169-171
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English