Pragmatic Principles in Informal Interaction/Pragmatické principy v neformální konverzaci

Abstract

This thesis deals with performance and non-performance of the Grice´s Cooperative Principle and the Leech´s Politeness Principle in modern spoken language. In the theo-retical part both of these theories are introduced, described and explained using exam-ples from the corpus. In the practical part, the corpus, the Pilot episode of the TV series Parenthood, is analysed. First, the dialogues in corpus are analysed employing the Co-operative Priniple. Second, the dialogues in the corpus are analysed employing the Po-liteness Principle. The aim of this thesis is to show whether and to what extent employ-ing one theory impacts the other. The analysis of the effect of employing one theory on another is described in the last chapter of the practical part of this thesis