LIN 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Party Tonight, The Star-Spangled Banner, Implicature
19 Apr 2017
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Conversational implicatures & implicatures: there is often a considerable discrepancy. Between the conventional meaning of an utterance. And what the speaker actually intends to convey. Levels of meaning: problem: how does speaker s get addressee a to recognize the intended meaning, focus of work by h. paul grice (1957, 1975, 1989): There must be a systematic relation between what s actually says and what she intends to convey such that a can reconstruct (or infer) s"s intention. S relies on a"s ability to reason backwards: from s"s communicative actions to s"s communicative intentions. The task would be impossible without guidance by additional assumptions. The cooperative principle: grice studied the mismatch between literal and intended meaning and concluded that a must be making a general assumption about s"s speech, a assumes s is operating under what grice called the cooperative principle:
