Pragmatic Analysis in Terms of Gricean Maxims Master Two

Abstract

Today, social networks are part of the lives of our students. Facebook is probably the main site of encounter,communication, interaction, sharing of ideas and matters of common interest among university students. Correspondingly, the present paper aims to shed light on the notion of pragmatics in general and the conversational Gricean maxims in particular. Hence, it shows how these conversational maxims are flouted and/or respected in the FB context. The method used in this research is the qualitative analysis method. The data for this research were taken from the ELL posts in their Facebook group; fifteen posts were randomly collected, classified and pragmatically analyzed. Findings of this paper indicate that ELL FB users tend to flout mostly two kinds of the maxims which are the maxims of quantity (say no more, no less) and/or maxims of manner (be perspicuous, avoid obscurity of expression, avoid ambiguity, be brief and be orderly).