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2025 Vol 1 · No 4
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A GRICEAN ANALYSIS OF FIXED EXPRESSIONS (BASED ON THE PAREMIOLOGY OF THE CONCEPT ‘SUFFERING’)
Анализ устойчивых выражений по Грайсу (на основе паремиологии понятия «страдание») | QAT’IY IBORALARNING GRAYS TAHLILI (“AZOB-UQUBAT” TUSHUNCHASI PAREMIOLOGIYASIGA ASOSLANGAN)
Partner conferences of the International Scientific Journal Research Focus, 1(4), 866–869
Abstract
This study analyzes English proverbs and fixed expressions relating to 'suffering' using H.P. Grice's theory of conversational implicature. When we look past just the direct meaning of proverbs (a purely semantic analysis), we propose that these formulaic expressions purposefully go against (systematically flout) the Gricean maxims of conversation (Quality, Quantity, Relation, and Manner) to create strong cultural implicatures. By examining examples like "No pain, no gain," "Misery loves company," and "hell on earth," this paper shows that the pragmatic force and cultural endurance of these sayings come from (are fundamentally rooted in) their violation of conversational logic. This violation makes listeners find deeper, implicit meanings about resilience, inevitability, and shared human experience. This Gricean analysis gives us an explanation for how complex cultural framings of suffering are linguistically made and communicated.
Keywords
conversational implicatureGriceproverbsparemiologysufferingpragmaticsfixed expressions
How to cite
Kambaraliev Bekhruz Akhmadjon ogli (2025). A GRICEAN ANALYSIS OF FIXED EXPRESSIONS (BASED ON THE PAREMIOLOGY OF THE CONCEPT ‘SUFFERING’). Partner conferences of the International Scientific Journal Research Focus, 1(4), 866–869. https://doi.org/10.66073/ReFocus-Conf/532