The other day I was googling casually and got this hit about a Dylan Grice, I think, who was described as a 'strategist'. Fun.
This from online abstract by S. Harris:
Pragmatics and Power
Harris, Sandra
Journal of Pragmatics, 23,
"Utilizing recordings of magistrate/defendant & police suspect discourse involving 26 courtroom cases in the UK, the nature of strategic discourse in settings where participants have conflicting goals is examined. Three specific propositions are tested: (1) the asymmetrical distribution of speech acts as a mode of strategic communication prevents validity claims being raised or challenged except by institutional representatives; (2) truth comes to be defined pragmatically as what is accepted explicitly as shared knowledge; & (3) there is a need to redefine the widely used concept of communicative competence so that any challenge to authority or the right to speak is not merely labeled as inappropriate &/or incompetent language behavior. The usefulness of
the work of H. P. Grice
& Jurgen Habermas in relationship to strategic discourse is discussed, & a possible model for future work proposed."
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