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Monday, April 4, 2011

On What Grice Did Not Say

Stokanovic, online

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/11/11/21/PDF/what_is_said_as_lexical_meaning.pdf

Consider

(1) She has graduated in maths.

"Aagain, as suppose that I utter it while discussing a mathematical
problem that you and I were unable to solve. Then the reason why I told you (1) was
not necessarily to inform you that Inma has graduated in math. In fact, let's suppose
that you knew that already. Then my intention in (1) must have been to inform you of
something else, like the following:

(2)

Inma should be able to help us solve the problem.

My utterance of (1) clearly does not say the same thing as (2), but in the context at
stake, (1) conveys what (2) says. The distinction between what is said and what is
conveyed is, of course, due to Paul Grice, and has been very much discussed in the
literature. I will have little to say about it here."

Yet, it may to do re-read the essay and see whether one can extract implicatures out of what she says that bear on Griceian concerns. As I' sure they do.

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