How to Become a Gricean in Five Easy Lessons

-- and in French, too.

In Paris, a couple of researchers founded the GRICE.

This stood for

G (roup)
pour la
R (echerche)
de la
C (omprehension)
E (lementaire)

But it wasn't THAT elementary. Francois Recanati (the only French philosopher with a surname that _means_, naturally, a town in Italy) was one of the founding fathers. Maribel was a founding mother.