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Monday, May 10, 2010

Grice cited by Arundale

I mentioned Arundale (whom I came to know via a ref. in Levinson) and he is quoted elsewhere. This an abstract from one of his essays:

Against (Gricean) intentions at the heart of human interaction
Robert B. Arundale
Intercultural Pragmatics. Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 229–258, 2008


Abstract

"Human communication has long been explained as a speaker's encoding of meanings using linguistic forms, and a hearer's decoding those forms to recover the speaker's meanings. Contemporary theorists in language pragmatics reject this encoding/decoding model as descriptively inadequate. Drawing on Grice's philosophical analysis, they argue instead that communication occurs when the hearer recognizes the speaker's meaning-intention. I argue that intention recognition explanations are likewise descriptively inadequate because they are framed within the same conceptualization of communication as encoding/decoding models. Drawing on a model of communication grounded in empirical research on ordinary conversation, I develop an alternative to the view that intentions and intention recognition lie at the heart of human interaction."

But he provides a good exegesis of Grice!

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