This paper takes Grice’s Cooperative Principle as the theoretical framework, and the American film Flipped as the study object and the dialogues between the female protagonist and other characters as the corpus. This thesis mainly studies the conversational implicature generated by violating one of the maxims of Cooperative Principle, namely: violation of quality maxim, violation of quantity maxim, violation of relation maxim, and violation of manner maxim. Then, Julie’s personality is analysed through those conversational implicatures. This study finds that Julie dares to defend her own rights. She is innocent, kind, reasonable, romantic, and optimistic. She is passionate about the things and people around her. She has an independent and mature mind and her own judgment on things. This study can help readers better understand the content of the film and the personality of Julie, learn the purpose and meaning of people’s violation of cooperative principle, and accurately express their own opinions and implicit meanings.

Qi Li. An Analysis of Conversational Implicature in Flipped from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2026), Vol. 9, Issue 5: 73-80. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2026.090510.

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