Intercultural Communication and Positioning of Maxims: An Analysis of ‘The Terminal’
Language is crucial in comprehending people's lives. Intercultural pragmatics focuses on communication. According to Kecskes (2000), intercultural communication involves persons from diverse cultural origins speaking different languages. They interact via a shared language. In intercultur...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Department of English, University of Chitral
2022-06-01
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| Series: | University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature |
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| Online Access: | https://jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/journal10/article/view/434 |
| Summary: | Language is crucial in comprehending people's lives. Intercultural pragmatics focuses on
communication. According to Kecskes (2000), intercultural communication involves persons from
diverse cultural origins speaking different languages. They interact via a shared language. In
intercultural communication, when individuals from various cultures speak different languages, it
is challenging to understand one another. The study aimed to investigate how the main characters
from the movie construct the current sense of emergent common ground from the perspective of
the socio-cognitive approach. For the purpose of generating successful communication, (Grice,
1975), proposed four maxims that must not be ignored. The findings of the study indicated that in
intercultural interaction between the two selected characters Frank and Viktor, Frank co-constructs
a common ground because both of them come from different cultural backgrounds. He formulated
the utterances in such a way that Viktor was able to comprehend the information with relative ease.
The study also showed that Grice maxims, which include maxims of manner, maxims of quality,
maxims of quality, and maxims of relevance, were both followed and sometimes ignored during
an intercultural interaction between Frank and Viktor, i.e., maxims were positioned in a specific
context. |
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| ISSN: | 2617-3611 2663-1512 |