The violation of Grice's Maxims in Gotcha Calls / Al-Shaatha Nasser Al-Kharusi
This study investigates prank calls in Gotcha Calls. It aims to find the framing of Gotcha Calls, how they are structured in relation to Grice’s maxim of quality and the victims’ reactions to the deceptive behavior in these calls. Second, it aims to find how politeness shifts at the different sta...
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3959/1/THE_VIOLATION_OF_GRICE%E2%80%99S_MAXIMS_IN_GOTCHA_CALLS.pdf http://pendeta.um.edu.my/client/default/search/results?qu=The+violation+of+Grice%27s+Maxims+in+Gotcha+Calls&te= http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3959/ |
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| Summary: | This study investigates prank calls in Gotcha Calls. It aims to find the framing
of Gotcha Calls, how they are structured in relation to Grice’s maxim of quality and the
victims’ reactions to the deceptive behavior in these calls. Second, it aims to find how
politeness shifts at the different stages in the call: before the fabrication, during the
fabrication and after the fabrication is shifted to reality. Third, the role of knowledge
schemata in relation to identity and power distribution is examined. A content analysis,
politeness relational work and Grice’s maxims were used to answer the three research
questions. Twenty seven Gotcha Calls were downloaded from the Malaysian radio
station web site Hitz Dot FM. Findings show that all calls followed the same structure
and the violation of the maxim of quality played a major role in these calls. Second,
even though the maxim of quality was violated most people accepted this deceptive
behavior as acceptable behavior for the specific context (Gotcha Calls) in which it
occurs. Third, the maxim of quality played a significant role in politeness where
participants were found to shift their strategies from being polite before the violation of
the maxim of quality to being impolite after the violation of the maxim of quality.
Fourth, the knowledge schemata was found to play a role in these calls especially in
constructing the call, the establishment of identities and power distribution during the
interaction. |
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