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| Article Name : | | | Cooperative Strategies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker | | Author Name : | | | Sagar S. Waghmare | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2693 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The present paper aims at the application of the Cooperative Principle and its maxims to one of the forms of literature at research level, namely, the absurd drama. It tries to unfold the usefulness of the Cooperative Principle in the study of literature. It also throws light on the study of literature with a new perspective. Its major purpose is to explore how communication is meaning oriented and how Pragmatics helps the readers to arrive at the exact meaning. The selected conversational pieces from Harold Pinter's The Caretaker enable us to study how the observance or violation of the maxims, helps to make conversation smooth as well as complicated, both at the surface level and the deeper level. It also shows how the interlocutors proceed in the conversation with their background and contextual knowledge. Characters often seem to be uncooperative at the surface level in conversation. Here, Semantics fails to impart the intended meaning expressed by the characters. The application of the pragmatics helps the readers to derive the intended meaning out of seemingly uncooperative utterances. The present paper asserts that the pragmatic approach to a literary form offers adequate information and insight by reaching at hidden meaning. | | Keywords : | | |
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