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- adjective Of or pertaining to Paul Grice (1913-1988), British-educated philosopher of language, who helped to found the
linguistic field ofpragmatics .
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Examples
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Etc. Canons of construction actually line up quite nicely with the Gricean maxims, and may get more oomph by showing that they have a basis in reality.
Archive 2009-01-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Well, it really was a matter of violating various Gricean maxims to pragmatically imply what they did.
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Among many others, I would highlight the (Gricean?) virtue of not implying false or useless information, such as that the press agent is male, or that press agents are male by default.
Why do so many people hate gender-neutral words? (Oh, s—!) « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Searle's classic dispute, between which I am trying to float a Gricean theory of meaning between, see
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It's a rather flagrant breach of the Gricean Maxims, I'd say.
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Hel, you know, the reason we all love you is that nobody else would have taken this quote and seen it as a flagrant breach of the Gricean Maxims!
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Partly this describes a theory of meaning, a Gricean one perhaps, in which, as he describes it in a famous paper of 1957, natural and non-natural senses of propositions co-exist.
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Gricean pragmatics, and concepts pertaining to speech acts.
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The Gricean thought experiments suggest that simply having an experience that matches your surrounding environment will not, in itself, be sufficient for seeing objects in your environment.
Petty Injuries 2009
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(So note that according to Snowdon, an assertion of the disjunctive theory is not actually needed for a rejection of the Gricean argument for the CTP.)
Petty Injuries 2009
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