A Pragmatic Analysis of Implicature in Charles Manson’s Interview
Abstract
The aim of introducing this paper is to examine the embloyment of implicature by the pragmatic strategy of evasion in an interview with the famous American criminal Charles Manson. This is done by adopting two theories that of Grice’s Cooperative Principle (1975) and Brown and Levinson’s Politeness (1987).
Firstly the researcher introduces a theoretical background concerning pragmatics in general, implicature, the Cooperative Principle and Politeness, and how implicature is used by criminals. In the practical part, a historical background about Charles Manson is mentioned. Then a number of exchanges of speech when the criminal implies meanings by the strategy of evasion are selected. They are arranged in texts. The analysis of Manson’s interview reveals the following results: criminals imply meanings by evasions from the answers to the questions about the details of their crimes. They do so by many tactics such as by repeating the same question or by saying irrelevant ideas. The principle function from Manson’s involving of evasion is to keep his faces away from threatening to show himself as innocent
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