Analysis of Conversational Implicature in Friends From the Perspective of Cooperative Principles

Friends is an American television sitcom that tells the interesting stories of life between six old friends in Manhattan, New York, and their 10-year journey together. The plot section is exciting and diverse, with distinctive characteristics and humorous dialogue, and is considered one of the most famous sitcoms in the world. The lines of the protagonist in this drama have great pragmatic value and can be analyzed from multiple perspectives. This paper starts from the perspective of pragmatics and uses the cooperative principle as the theoretical framework to analyze the dialogues and conversations of characters, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of the conversational implicatures and to analyze the plot development and character traits at a deeper level.

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