A study of Grice's co-operative principle in the light of Pinter's play

The work of Grice is mostly linked with the theory of the Cooperative Principle and its attendant maxims Quantity, Quality, Relation and Manner regulate the exchange of information during the interaction. Grice stressed that our talk consists of a string of correlated remarks which makes it coherent and we are able to converse with our interlocutors because we recognize common goals in conversation and follow specific ways to achieve these goals. Very few of the linguists challenged this approach and tried to add, revise and alter the maxims of Grice to analyze the discourse more efficiently and effectively. In this article I will try to proof that Grice's maxims are themselves enough to regulate the conversation effectively without any major change and they can be applied on pre-planned dialogues like spontaneous conversation. The Caretaker, Pinter's master piece has been selected for this purpose and maxims are going to be applied on the dialogues of the play to proof their universality.