Abstract

The film “Flipped“ has been highly praised since its release, and it has always been on the list of “must see movies”. As a new rising star in linguistics, pragmatics focuses on the analysis of how to understand and use different languages in special contexts, especially in different communication environments. From the perspective of Grice’s cooperative principle and Leech’s politeness principle, this paper analyzes the dialogues in the films, and explores the conversational implicature and implied meanings behind the dialogues. On the one hand, it helps us grasp the characters’ personalities. On the other hand, it may help us better understand the importance of cooperative principle and politeness principle.