Grice's Ouch (Was: Pooh-Pooh

Elsewhere I gave Grice another title. Not Pooh-Pooh, but in this list below, it's indeed the pooh-pooh or ouch that Grice relates with. It's from a wiki link. The theories are:

1. The "Bow-Wow" Theory suggests that language
evolved from imitation. Thereafter, the word's
form changed and its meaning broadened.

2. The "Pooh-Pooh" Theory (also knowns as the "Ouch"
Theory) suggests that language arose from emotional
exclamations of fear, pain, lust, etc.

3. The "Yo-Heave-Ho" Theory (Noire) suggests that
language evolved in collective efforts. Rhythmic
sounds were produced to coordinate common projects
involving many individuals.

4. The "La-La" Theory (aka as the "Sing-Song" Theory)
suggests that language evolved from song and dance
into patterns of meaningful sounds.

5. The "Ding Dong" Theory suggests that there
are in-born connections between certain contents
and certain sounds (something like how different
objects have different sounds when you hit them).

6. The "Yadda Yadda" Theory:
language evolved from social grooming.

7. The "Ta-Ta" Theory: Spoken language was preceded by
gestures. This theory has merit. People do communicate
with gestures when in foreign countries, in groups
(how do you indicate without speaking that you don't
know an answer?), and on the freeway.

8. The "Ah-Ha" Theory (Kinneavy): language evolved
from insight.

9. The "Goo-Goo" Theory: Watching a baby learn to speak
is an amazing process in any language as the mother
and father repeat words, and the baby mimics their
sounds. This theory notes that language began when
man repeated sounds purposely and these were understood
by others.

So, for Grice it's pooh-pooh or ouch:

The "Pooh-Pooh" Theory (also knowns as the "Ouch"
Theory) suggests that language arose from emotional
exclamations of fear, pain, lust, etc.

Grice would symbolise this as follows.

Let psi be a psi-operator sub asterisk. Or the other way round. Let asterisk sub-psi be a mode indicator device for the expression of the content of a proposition with which the utterer may but then may not be alert:

ouch! (That hurts)

By uttering, "ouch", the utterer (of "ouch")
displays, NATURALLY,
that that hurts.

--- Grice notes,

"Surely in some cases, like a burp, an utterer may mean that he has digested the food alright" (or words).

"It's difficult with expressions of disgust".

"Where I come from there is this gesture [THIS IS A TAPE, so we don't know what he did], which roughly means, "I'm fed up"".

Yet, Grice's caveat:

The issue of 'meaning' here is a
complex, or rather, complicated
one. If I say,

This gesture means
that I am fed up

"under an interpretatin of a NON-NATURAL KIND,
one SPECIALLY connected with what we think of
as COMMUNICATION, then to say that
does NOT commit you to your actually being fed up"

For a frown, etc. can be feigned. (Green, "Grice's Frown").

This is so obvious, that I shouldn't be writing a blog post about it, but fact is, I'm retrieving posts I've sent elsewhere and there's this six-prong list of theories of language and it's good to have, for the record, the proper label for the proper theory the proper Grice is appropriating, properly. Etc.