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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Grice: Cumulative Syntax to Create Suspense

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"Suspense" is a Fregean notion, almost, like 'colour'. Grice would prefer: 'cumulative syntax to trigger an implicature'.

Sherlock Holmes was good at detecting them, as the film with Ian McKellen testifies!

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