On Intentional Breakthrough of Relation Maxim in the Use of Figures of Speech

Cooperative consists of four conversational maxims: quantity maxim,quality maxim,relation maxim and manner maxim.Generally speaking,language expression follows these principles,but sometimes they are deliberately broken through in order to make language expression more vivid,accurate and flexible and achieve a particular communicative purpose by skillfully using figures of speech.This paper will discuss this kind of language expression from the perspective of relation maxim.