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A Study of Racial Discrimination in Green Book from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle

Authors
Kun Hu1, *
1School of Foreign Languages, Yangtze Normal University, Chongqing, 400000, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 631676404@qq.com
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Kun Hu
Available Online 13 February 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_59How to use a DOI?
Keywords
The Cooperative Principle; Green Book; Racial discrimination; Conversational implicature
Abstract

The United States is a multi-racial country formed by immigrants, which regards itself as a “melting pot”, but different races have different statuses, thus giving rise to the problem of racial discrimination. This kind of discrimination mainly started with the sale of the first black slaves in the North American continent in 1619 and continues to this day. From the perspective of the Cooperative Principle, this paper explores all kinds of racial discrimination encountered by the black musician Don during his tour to the south in Green Book. From the analysis of language, language does have an impact on racial discrimination, because some understated words will inadvertently cause discrimination, which awakens the public’s cautious use of language. In this paper, through literature analysis and case analysis, it can be concluded that the conversational implicature with racial discrimination caused by the violation of the Cooperative Principle in Green Book makes the life of blacks treated unfairly and forms the character of inferiority. Therefore, it does harm to their body and mind.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 February 2023
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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_59
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_59How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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