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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Early Grice

--- by J. L. Speranza
----- for the Grice Club, &c.

WHEN I WAS RESEARCHING onto the Gricean programme, I had, of course, to get familiar with 'language acquisition' problems, as per children. So I read some of the literature. Impressive. They way they have used and abused Grice!

--- Anyway, in a crucial passage in "Reply to Richards" that Baron and Green fail to quote in their Ridgeway essay ("Lionspeak"), Grice notes

"without language, as a matter of 'fact', no meaning"

-- etc.

"The Early Grice" attempts to recollect, and comment on, various uses of Grice's theory in theories of language acquisition. And fail!

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