---- By J. L. S
------------ STILL TRYING TO RETRIEVE
that bit by Grice on xy-questions ("When and where was the murder commited?")
vis a vis Kramer's 'brain-teaser' apres M. v. Savant.
This is more general. But may do with th logical form of questions (e.g. "What width is the lake?")
For Grice there are two types of implicatural questions.
Some questions are
JUDICATIVE INTERROGATIVE:
Here,
Utterer wills that
Addressee wills
that Utterer judges P
But then there's
VOLITIVE INTERROGATIVE
Here:
Utterer wills that
Addressee wills that
Utterer WILLS p.
Grice notes:
"The distinction between judicative and volitive [cfr. 'conative', ugly. JLS]interrogatives correspond with the difference
between cases in which
a questioner is indicated
as being, in one way or another,
concerned to obtain information
("Is he at home?"
[What width is the lake?. JLS]).
"and cases in which the
questioner is indicated
as being concerned to settle
a problem about what he is to DO
("Am I to leave the door open?",
"Is the prisoner to be released?",
"Shall I go on reading?", [surviving, whatever. JLS]).
Grice concludes this little note:
"This difference is well represented in
English grammar, and
much better
represented in the grammars of
some other languages."
(Gr01:55).
such as his Deutero-Esperanto.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
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