Abstract
This paper investigates the status of Grice’s (1975) conversational maxims of cooperation in Jordanian socio-political newspapers interviews. It also discusses the fundamental norms and conventions that shape conduct in these kinds of interviews and recurrent practices through which journalists balance competing professional demands for both objective and an adversarial treatment of public figures in the present case two former Jordanian Prime Ministers (PMs). The paper also explores how, in the face of aggressive questioning, the PMs struggle to stay “on message”, so to speak, and pursue their own agenda. Through a pragma-linguistic analysis of these interviews, the study reveals that the reasons behind the MPs’ flouting of Grice’s conversational maxims, and, consequently, the ensuing conversational implicatures, are products of one of the following:
Recommended Citation
Obiedat, Nawaf
(2017)
"Conversational Maxims of Cooperation in Jordanian Newspapers Socio-Political Interviews,"
Journal of Arts and Social Sciences: Vol. 5
:
Iss.
2
, Article 10.
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.53542/jass.v5i2.1072
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