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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

"history of English apart"

Grice could be so irreverent, if that's the word, when talking lingustics. Consider his case for implicature vis a vis 'animal' vs. 'or' -- 'the history of language apart", I'm right.

I'm happy to report yet another Grice-in-Hel (History of the English Language) cross-ref.:

Grice H P cited in Jucker AH.

_Historical pragmatics: pragmatic developments in the history of English_.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Grice is quoted in 5 contributions:

1. Introduction: the historical perspective in pragmatics.
by A Jacobs & A Jucker, pp 3-33.

2. Wills & will-making in 16th and 17th century England:
some pragmatic aspects
by U Bach, pp 125-144.

3. Justifying grammars:
a socio-pragmatic foray into the discourse community
of early English grammarians
by RJ Watts, pp 145-186.

4. The semantic & pragmatic development of substitutive
complex prepositions in English
by SA Schwenter and E C Traugott, pp. 243-274.
((I note Traugott is quoted extensively by S Levinson
in _Presumptive meanings: the theory of generalised
conversational implicature_, MIT, 2000).

5. Constraints on politeness:
the pragmatics of address formulae in early English
correspondence,
by T Nevalainen & H Raumolin-Brunberg, pp. 541-601.

Etc.

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