COLL-C 104 Lecture 7: C104 Lecture 7 Notes (Feb. 1)

• School: IU
• Department: College of Arts & Sciences
• Course: COLL-C 104
• Professor: Steven Franks

Document Summary

C104 lecture 7 notes- finishing metaphors; pragmatics (pinker sot: (cid:862)ga(cid:373)es people pla(cid:455)(cid:863)(cid:895) 2-1-17: humor and metaphor, similarity being made has to be useful, good metaphors support analogical reasoning, stale vs. fresh metaphors, do fra(cid:373)es reall(cid:455) (cid:862)tru(cid:373)p(cid:863) fa(cid:272)ts? (cid:894)lakoff"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:374)tio(cid:374)(cid:895) Transcending metaphor: pinker- (cid:862)people effortlessl(cid:455) tra(cid:374)s(cid:272)e(cid:374)d the (cid:373)etaphors i(cid:373)pli(cid:272)it i(cid:374) their la(cid:374)guage(cid:863); (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) thi(cid:374)k outside the metaphor, they do not limit us. Debate for friday 2/3: we discussed 2 extreme views of role of metaphors in thinking; take a stand, metaphor is essential to thinking vs. metaphor is not essential to thinking. Pragmatics- implications of what we say; social context of language: what we say, what we mean, what others think we mean, we rarely say literally what we mean. Pragmatics: grice: conversational implicature- involves 4 maxims we think we follow when we speak; would be very difficult to communicate without it. Quality- giving good information; do(cid:374)"t sa(cid:455) thi(cid:374)gs (cid:455)ou thi(cid:374)k are false or that (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e evidence for.