Pragmatics in Arabic

This book focuses on investigating Gricean Theory of Conversational Implicature and its application to Arabic language. Semi-structured interviews with fifteen participants who speak the Yemeni dialect were recorded for the purpose of investigating such a theory. There were four Ph.D. candidates, four M.A. candidates and seven B.A. candidates. All interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, translated and interpreted. Both a qualitative and a quantitative approach was adopted and each analysis was divided into four sections. The first one dealt with flouting/exploiting the maxims. The second one was concerned with violating the maxims. The third one with coping with/negotiating between maxims, and the final focused on opting out (of the CP and its maxims). The findings revealed that Gricean Theory of Conversational Implicature can be applied to Arabic language, particularly the Yemeni dialect.