Gricean Maxims in the TV Series The Office : An analysis of the character Dwight regarding failure to observe Gricean maxims

Detta är en L2-uppsats från Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

Författare: Johan Lööf; [2018]

Nyckelord: humor; The Office; Grice s maxims; conversational maxims; violation of maxims.; humor; The Office; Grices maximer; Grices samtalsmaximer; överträdelse av maximer.;

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to analyze the rule breaking of Gricean conversational Maxims and how it is used in the TV series The Office. The character Dwight has been in focus, and the main goal of this study is to find out if and how he violates the Gricean Maxims in conversations. The study is based on written transcripts from four episodes of this TV series. The character Dwight's conversations from these episodes have been analyzed in order to see how one or more of the four conversational maxims (quantity, quality, manner and relation) were dealt with. The maxim that Dwight turned out to break the most was the maxim of relation. Dwight is a character that contributes to this series by repeatedly breaking the conversational maxims.

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