A Comparative Study of Maxim Violation across Different Media Interviews
[Thesis]
/Elnaz Siahchehreh
1391/6/20
Print
Master of Arts Teaching English
parametric nature this test was applied to answer the hypotheses of the research. The application of the test confirmed variation among the interview formats regarding maxims of quantity and quality. Testing the maxims of relevance and manner showed the opposite and no variation was observed in the data regarding the two maxims. The results confirmed that, the hybridity observed in the Wolf Blitzer Show (the Situation Room) and displaying characteristics of the political and talk show genre could be the answer for larger amount of exploitations in this format. The maxims of Grice and understanding how they operate in the process of meaning negotiation between participants of interaction, could help ESL and EFL learners in getting hidden and concealed messages in speech of native speakers by helping them to understand strategies that they use in creating meaning. It could help them further by providing them an opportunity for using products of TV medium in learning independently. -maxim). In order to test variation or similarity among interview formats regarding four categories of maxims, the data were tested by Kruskal Wallis test. Since the data had a non-institutional genre of talk shows participants are not governed by strict rule relations and are free to provide narrative accounts of their lives and initiate exchanges of talk which tend toward conversationalization of institutional talk. In order to carry out the study a sample of 30 interviews were collected (ten interviews from each interview format) and later exploitation of maxims (violations, flouts, opt outs) were examined in each interview format. Results of application of descriptive statistics showed that, among three interview formats, the hybrid format (The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer Show) occupied the first place in exploitation of maxims in all categories except for the last category of the maxim of manner (order sub-Abstract: This study aimed at providing a comparative analysis of Gricean Cooperative principle and its subsequent maxims of quantity, quality, relevance, and manner within the genre of political interviews and talk shows and a hybrid format displaying characteristics of the two genres (political celebrity interview and political celebrity talk show). Interviews are organized around roles of interviewer and interviewee, and are governed by a complex network of social norms and conventions. The genre of political interview by its distinctive features of participants, subject matter, and interactional form provides a potential for different patterns of interaction between participants in talk exchange and negotiation of meaning between the participants. This format creates a locus for violation of maxims and creation of implicature. Unlike political interviews, in semi.
Institutional interaction
Cooperative Principle
Conversational Maxim
Violation
and Flout
Siahchehreh، Elnaz
ایران
پایان نامهPE,1127,.S4C6,1391
A Comparative Study of Maxim Violation across Different Media Interviews