The Cooperative principle was proposed by John Searle.

The notion of context is not important to the pragmatic study of language.

A perlocutionary act is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention.

An illocutionary act is the consequence of or the change brought about by the utterance.

Grice made a distinction between what he called “constatives” and “performatives”.

According to the speech act theory, when we are speaking a language, we are doing something, or in other words performing acts; and the process of linguistic communication consists of a sequence of acts.

If we think of a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes an u________, and it should be considered in the situation in which it is actually used.

There are four maxims under the Cooperative principle.

The idea of Paul Grice is that in making conversation, the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate, otherwise, it would be impossible for them to carry on the talk. The general principle is called the c________ p_________, abbreviated as CP.

The meaning of an u__________ is concrete and context-dependent.

According to Paul Grice, in making c__________ the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate.