LINGUIST 2E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Geoffrey Leech, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Grice
20 Sep 2017
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What is necessary for a conversation to happen: 2 people+, because you can"t. What makes it good: body language to make it sound good, we can use facial expressions, we need two people, sometimes more. It"s hard to have a good conversation when the other person isn"t as invested in the conversation: (monosyllabic answers) doesn"t necessarily mean that they don"t like you. Similar/shared language level of knowledge of language will contribute to quality of conversation. At oxford university (1930s- 1967): came up with the idea that conversations are rule-governed. After 1967, at the university of california, berkeley. Grice"s most important ideas may be found in his william james lectures presented at harvard in 1967 (published in 1989 in grice"s collection of essays, studies in the way of words. When we think of meaning of words, is there something beyond the dictionary definition: context plays a big role. Through the looking glass, 1872 lewis carroll.
