LING 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Paul Grice, Jstor, Deep Structure And Surface Structure
27 Aug 2016
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Language in use: think about this expression a. i. Im down for that: what does it mean? c. Pragmatic can also be contextual meaning when some things mean something else: rest in notes, 4/13/16, gricean maxims, philosophy of language, posited as a set of universal principles that underlie the generation and interpretation of pragmatic meanings c. Implicatures and inferences: be cooperative, quality, quantity, relation, manner, an interpretive system, for generating implicatures a. i. Conversational implicatures: for making inferences, by violating, flouting, or complying with the maxims, the maxims are not rules for communication- they state default expectations about communication, maxim- pithily worded, few words as possible, e. i. Proposition especially one that is pithily worded: which kind of implicatures, conventional, conversational, compositional- none, a can you tell me where to find the library? d. i. Go past old main, toward the stadium d. ii. Conventional: if my uncle cliff ruled the world, can you please pass the salt? a. i.
