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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Panel on: Maintaining Identity in the Virtual World |
| Paper Title: Virtual Fraud and Misinformation in the New Age: Revisiting Grice’s Cooperative |
| Hong Wang and Xin-An (Lucian) Lu |
| Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Naturally, humans seek physical and psychological joy. Romance, for instance, is one of the means. People are |
| making quick use of the Internet technology to facilitate their seeking of romantic and quasi-romantic experience |
| via “virtual reality.” In this paper we concern ourselves mainly with meaning gen-eration and interpretation in the |
| virtual world. With analysis of a reported case of online deception as empirical evidence, we question in the |
| conditions and assumptions Grice based on for his theoretical proposition of the Cooperative Principle. Our |
| research suggests that deception in online romance is hard to find out because the virtual reality does not provide |
| sufficient conditions for generation of conversa-tional implicatures as suggested by Grice’s Cooperative Principle. |
| Keywords: virtual deception, cooperation, implicature |
ISSN
1535-07-03
Unless otherwise indicated, this paper has undergone blind external review by three or more reviewers.
Types of Papers: A Best Paper, Regular Paper, Short Paper, Informal Paper,
Unrefereed Panel Paper
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