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Violating Grice’s Cooperative Principle in Situational Comedies

Name: Violating Grice’s Cooperative Principle in Situational Comedies
Author: Cheryl Hindman

By Cheryl Hindman

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze how humor and jokes in situational comedies (sitcoms) intentionally violate Grice’s Cooperative Principle, which states that interlocutors contribute to a conversation only that which is required of it. Grice’s maxims and humor will be analyzed as will the violation of maxims in The Yada Yada episode of the sitcom Seinfeld.