Author(s)

Zhuoyan Chen ¹, Xingbin Tian ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Foreign Languages, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, China
² College of International Studies and Education, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou, 554300, China

Corresponding Author

Zhuoyan Chen

ABSTRACT

This paper is to reveal the stylistic features of the short story the Reference by analyzing the violation specific maxims of cooperative principles. It is found that the author Donald Barthelme portrays the image of the friend of Mr. McPartland by violating the cooperative principles through his whole text after analysis. He shape the image of the friend of Mr. McPartland that he is an unreliable person by violating the maxim of quality and quantity in his writing, while he give the image of the man that he is illiterate with low social status by violating the maxim of relation and manner.

KEYWORDS

Stylistic feature, Cooperative principle, The reference

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhuoyan Chen, Xingbin Tian. Analysis of Stylistic Feature under the Violation of Cooperative Principles in the Novel the Reference. Advances in Vocational and Technical Education (2021) 3: 167-172. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/avte.2021.030233

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