The Application of Cooperative Principle to Job Interview

Cooperative principle is supposed to be the basis of any successful communication.It is assumed that in a conversation the par ticipants will cooperate with each other when making their contributions.The principle has wide and useful applications.Based on Grice's Cooperative Principle and the conversational implicature,the following discussion attempts to analyze pragmatically how it can be used in job interview.By means of applying principles of quantity,quality,relation and manner into the job interview,it can be shown that the interview can be successful in the interview if he observes the cooperative principle and derives the conversational implicature.