Cooperative Principle Violation in Moment in Peking

In people’s daily communication,people use many techniques to polish their utterances. So the conversation becomes more complicated. But utterances in people’s communication play a very important role in people’s life. And this thesis is going to analyze the strategies of successful conversations through the analysis of Yao Mulan’s utterances in Moment in Peking under Grice’s Cooperative Principle.Lin Yutang likes Yao Mulan mostly in all the characters in Moment in Peking. With the skillful strategies in Yao Mulan’s utterances,we can see her good characteristics. That’s the excellent communication strategies that make Yao Mulan the most charming character in the novel. Many scholars do the research of the novel and the heroine Yao Mulan. But most of the scholars study these topics from the perspective of translation,philosophy and so forth. They are rarely from the perspective of pragmatics. This thesis analyzes Yao Mulan’s charming characteristics from the perspective of Quantity maxim of Cooperative Principle.From the analysis of Yao Mulan’s talent in conversation,readers can see her charming characteristics.What’s more,people can learn some successful communication strategies. Grasping one skillful conversation strategy is important to people in their life,work and study.