O. F. R. Greenhall on H. P. Grice, Oxford

THE SEMANTICS/PRAGMATICS DISTINCTION:

A DEFENCE OF GRICE

Semantics/Pragmatics: An Historical Overview

--- cf. Morris's triad: syntactics, semantics, pragmatics

Initial Definitions

Semantics

The Development of Pragmatics: Morris to Grice

-- cf. Grice 1987 on 'logical inference' versus 'pragmatic inference' in "Retrospective Epilogue."

Two Types of Pragmatics?

-- cf. Grice, ""Pragmatics" is not be multiplied beyond necessity."

Alternative Interpretations

What is Said

-- cf. Hare on the DICTUM. Cf. Grice on the EXPLICATUM.

The Basic Triad

Problems for the Basic Triad

Kent Bach

-- cf. Grice on the IMPLICATUM versus the IMPLICITUM.

Cappelen and Lepore

Jason Stanley

Ken Taylor

François Recanati

The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction

Conventional Implicature

-- cf. Frege on colouring.

Classic Cases and Further Examples

Are Conventional Implicatures a Myth?

-- cf. Are they a *useful* myth?

Testing for Conventional Implicatures

Pronouns

-- Cf. Pronouns in Old English.

A Hypothesis

Testing Pronouns and Gender

Testing Pronouns and Number

Formal Treatment

Assessing the Formalisation

Concluding Remarks

Conversational Implicature

-- cf. Conversational IMPLICATUM.

Grice’s Theory

Exploiting a Maxim

-- cf. Grice on desideratum and principle.

Generalised Conversational Implicature

Tests for Conversational Implicatures

Scalar Implicature

-- cf. Urmson on 'scale'

A Brief History of Scalar Implicature

Sauerland’s Sophisticated Account

The Pragmatic Account

Chierchia’s Computational Account

Levinson on Scalar Implicature

Concluding Remarks

Minimalism and Quantification

Quantifier Domain Restriction

Bach’s Account

Problems For Bach

More Minimalism

The Inter-Contextual Disquotational Indirect Report Test

VP-Ellipsis and Collective Descriptions

The Inter-Contextual Disquotational Test

Wettstein’s Objection

Concluding Remarks

Unarticulated Domains

Unarticulated Constituents

Stanley’s Theory of Nominal Restriction

Motivations for NRT

Pagin on The Binding Argument

A Simple Account of Domain Relativisation

Getting Things Right in Most of John’s Classes

Concluding Remarks

Further Applications

A Look Back at Bach’s List

‘Is Red’

Concluding Remarks

Conclusion

Appendix A: The Logic LCI

Appendix B: Logics of Domain Restriction 

References

-- cf.

Grice, H. P. (1938). 'Negation,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.