Grice knew of Gardiner

As I was mentioning in my survey (a confused one, no doubt!) of R. E. Dale's excellent dissertation (online at russelldale) I note that Cameron and Taylor ("Analysing conversation", Pergamon, a slim volume) have a slimmer chapter on Grice (the 'rationalist' -- cfr. "I am enough of a rationalist" -- Grice) and one on Gardiner, the 'empiricist' -- cfr. my "I am enough of an empiricist".

Dale quotes extensively from that beautiful book by this Swedish author, Mats Furberg. Now, as I recall, Furberg as the son of Grice (metaphorically).

So it seems mighty mighty that Grice knew "all you wanted to know (if not more)" about the Oxford egyptologist.

Dale notes that Furberg's focus, like Nerlich's, is on J. L. Austin -- the primus inter pares of Grice's play group at Oxford:

"Mats Furberg strongly suggests that
Austin was influenced by Gardiner."

and quotes from Furberg:

"the philologist Alan H. Gardiner
gave a first sketch of the
distinction between locutionary and illocutionary aspects
of a speech-act. (See Part II of A [sic.] Theory of Speech and
Language.) His remarks on 'sentence-qualifacators'
(§§ 61 and 68) are clearly relevant to such
philosophical puzzles as why it is odd to
say 'S is P, but I don't believe it'. [Furberg (1971), p. 52]"

Recall that Grice should have read all that, since, well, he was 'advising' his son (Furberg).

Dale goes on:

"Thus, Furberg acknowledges Gardiner as an originator of the important distinction between locutionary and illocutionary speech-acts before Austin. And more importantly, his point in making the acknowledgments in this passage is to show that we need not believe Austin was influenced at all by Wittgenstein, that is, that we do better to understand that Austin was influenced by Gardiner".

Dale comments, too:

"[Furberg] only cites a single place where Austin refers to Gardiner.<58> This, of course, is nice since it shows that at least Austin definitely was aware of Gardiner. But it would be nice if there was more to go on here."

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A reconstructed conversation (fictional)

GRICE: Hello.
FURBERG: Hello. I brought you my paper. Chapter iii.
GRICE. This is for your DPhil, right?
FURBERG. Yes.
GRICE. I see you are quoting as if Austin got his influence ... from ... GARDINER?
FURBERG. (silence).
GRICE. (Repeating). GARDINER?
FURBERG. Yes.
GRICE. How?
FURBERG. Well, he quotes him once.
GRICE. But he quotes Austin like, er, 80 times...

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