A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON GRICE’S COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLES IN POLITICAL AND SPORT NEWS IN AMERICAN MEDIA

This descriptive study which has been done by data analysis method is due to compare the adoption and violation of Grice’s Cooperative Principles in Sport and Political News in American media and identify which of these four Principles (Quality, Quantity, Manner and Relation) has been violated most and which of them has been violated least. In this regard, 100 News Stories have been selected randomly from American Newspapers and News Agencies and the adoption and violation of these maxims were studied in these Stories. The results reveal that the Grice’s Cooperative Maxims were more adopted in Political News in compare with Sport News and among these Maxims, the Principle of Manner was most violated in both Sport and Political News. According to the results, the Principle of Quality was most adopted in Sport News and the Principle of Relation was most adopted in Political News.