Mohammad Javad Pourabed

Conversational implicature is a central concept in pragmatic theory, referring to those indirect meanings and implications that the listener infers through the violation of socially established conversational rules, rather than from the direct, literal meaning of the words. This mechanism is based on the "Cooperative Principle" between speakers, formulated by the philosopher Paul Grice into four basic maxims: Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner. The poetry of Sulaiman al-Nabhani was chosen as a distinctive creative model, characterized by its richness in implicit meanings, innovative metaphors, and a blend of authentic Arabic formulation with intellectual and emotional depth in content. The research adopted the pragmatic approach, which focuses on analyzing language within its context of use, employing Grice's theory of the Cooperative Principles as an analytical framework for reading the texts. The analysis revealed al-Nabhani's remarkable skill in artistically and consciously employing these principles. He adhered to the maxim of Quantity in his advisory and wisdom poetry, while deliberately violating it in his love poetry through elaboration to create a sense of wonder. He maintained artistic truthfulness regarding the maxim of Quality even with poetic exaggerations. His poetry exhibited strong thematic coherence in line with the maxim of Relation, while he excelled in creatively violating the maxim of Manner through complex rhetorical deviations that enriched meaning. These intelligent strategies of employing or violating the conversational maxims are what transform al-Nabhani's poems into a successful model of constructive implicit dialogue.