Document Type : Research Article
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Department of English, Ferdowsi University of mashhad, Mashhad Iran
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One of the features in nonsense style is the related character which can be studied from different angles. One of the stylistic areas in which nonsense characters have received less attention is the aspect of how they interact with Grice's rules for linguistic cooperation or cooperative principles. Then, one should examine how the character(s) of that work interact(s) with Grice's rules: does he always deal with these rules in a fixed way, or in a variable way? The result can lead to a better understanding of the character(s) of the nonsense style, which in turn will bring us closer to the definition of what some thinkers consider undefinable for this style. The present research first shows how J.D. Salinger’s A Perfect Day for Bananafish belongs to the nonsense genre, and then proves that the relationship between nonsense character(s) and the Gricean maxims are variable and complex.
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