A Study On Abduction Underlying The Cooperative Principle

Grice’s Cooperative Principle thoroughly describes people’s daily communicative activities and develops a new area in pragmatics. As the core of pragmatics, it enriches the practical value of pragmatics and becomes a major focus of logics. With the rising development of linguistics research, the Cooperative Principle also arouses more scholars’ research enthusiasm. In domestic area, Hu Zhuanglin first introduced the Cooperative Principle in the Pragmatics in 1980. After that, ChengYu min and Shen Jiaxuan made a further study of it. During the process of analyzing this text underlying the Cooperative Principle, we find that the real reasoning which actually makes people infer out the real meanings carefully and linking closely is a hidden in our brains and hard to be found reasoning form, we call it abduction.Abduction, as one of the three major reasoning forms, the status of modern linguistics and pragmatics is rising. However, so far, there is still a lack of understanding of the logic reasoning, and some people consider it as the appendant of inductive and deductive. They deny this reference as a reasonable independent reasoning. Abduction as its earliest can be traced back to the ancient Greek Aristotle. Unfortunately, Aristotle didn’t discuss it further. In 1868, the American philosopher Peirce firstly proposed abductive due to the concept of reasoning. At first, he called it the assumption which is neither from individual to general nor from the individual to general but from the rules and results which are derived from the case of a possible reasoning. Pierce turned the abduction into a scientific methodology from independent reasoning form on the basis of Aristotle and Kant’ thoughts. From then on, the abduction as a scientific methodology was highly valued in logic, linguistics, and computer, medical and other fields. As for how to define this methodology, domestic researchers came out with different explanations, but the common idea is deriving from the known facts, combined with the derivation of the common sense and knowledge of the background to derive the most appropriate explanation of the reasoning process. By using abduction to explore the cooperative principle is to reveal the abduction as a bridge in the process of pragmatic inference and help people understand the important implication to conduct the hidden meaning successfully and achieve better communicative effects.