Author(s)

Zhang Jiaming ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of English Studies, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Longtou Street, Dalian, China

Corresponding Author

Zhang Jiaming

ABSTRACT

Self-talk is a universal phenomenon, yet we often observe that its content does not always align with one's cognition. People may not always be faithful to themselves or to reality, instead using self-talk to meet psychological needs. Moreover, human cognition often interprets self-talk as a form of dialogue, with self-talk inherently possessing certain features of interpersonal communication. The pragmatic view, typically used to explain or guide human communication with the external world, may also be applicable to the internal dialogue that individuals have with themselves. This paper takes the aforementioned psychological adaptive self-talk as an example and employs conversational implicature theory for pragmatic analysis. In doing so, it tries not only to provide a novel theoretical interpretation of psychological strategies but also to expand the scope of pragmatic perspective, exploring its renewed vitality.

KEYWORDS

Self-Talk, Psychological Adaptation, Conversational Implicature

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhang Jiaming, A Study of Self-Talk as Intrapersonal Communication from the Perspective of Conversational Implicature. Applied & Educational Psychology (2025) Vol. 6: 20-26. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2025.060203.

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