Grice Studies

One Thing We SHOULD avoid is "Grice Studies". Chesterton, as reported by Gardner, The Annotated Alice, displays the nightmare of "Alice in Wonderland" turned into a topic of examination for Communication Studies...

Topics for Gricean Studies.

The Griceland University offers a BA, MA, and PhD in Grice Studies. The courses are dictated by renowned implicaturists.

Grice comments:

"One should be genuinely concerned here with the welfare of our prospective students".

He kept calling them 'prospective students' as if he knew (his end was near). He often referred to the Faculty as "those whose members have no class" -- he meant propoerly assigned.

He goes on (words) in his:

"Graduate Programme Revision", (BANC 90/35c):

"Recycling a favourite piece of terminology", our graduate student, S. R. Chapman comments, "the professor suggests a series of 'desiderata' for the graduate programme".

"These were concerned not so much with syllabus content -- for which he relied blindly on J. L. S. -- but with "the more general Gricean student experience".

"These desiderata include comments about

increasing student access to faculty."

"As wella s points such as"

"reduce or eliminate 3rd year doldrums"

and

"foster a sense of personal adequacy"

which the Faculty can be "shown to lack"

On being asked what he may have meant by "personal adequacy", he replied, briefly, "Briefly, an endorsement of my view of personal identity: i.e. the idea that a person is adequate to his-self iff there is an element of a total temporary state (tts) which is a member of a series of tts such that every member of the series would contain as an element itself or some other self".

To this, he adds,

"together with the idea that Grice Studies can be an exciting and enjoyable activity".

On objected that Studies is plural, he said,

"two exciting and enjoyable activities."

"The professor has made also a final and impassionateed point about what he calls 'financial discrimination', interesting in the light of his well-known attitude towards equality."

"Bad things (or at least not good things)", he wrote, "include"

* (self) discipline
* loyalty (except political)
* tolerance (except towards what we favour)
* culture (except popular)

Some items on the list the professor has circulated, "are marked with an asterisk, which the professor annotates as 'some v. bad'. These include:

* discrimination
* getting unfair advantage
* authority

Chapman informs us of how "uneasy the professor was made by the more business-like rebellion with its challenge to authorities, political, social and intellectual".

The Grice Studies programme balances all that magisterially.

The professor notes, "A pass at QE should not be nullified by poverty".

"And the added anxiety would be bad in itself, and bad for student harmony and for the flow of applications for admission to the Grice Studies programme".

--- SEMINARS FOR 2010.

R. B. Jones will lecture in Greek on izzing and hazzing.

S. R. Bayne will translate Anscombe to Grice.

Tapper will out Albritton and Speranza will in Grice.

Kramer will discourse on pseudo-codes and his idle days in Tuscany.

Henry will provide the textbook readings for his 56-year long seminar on the "immortality of the soul".

Nick E. A. will lecture on "locked in pragmatics": a companion to his better known "keys to pragmatics".

Tim Wh. will lecture non-verbally

Etc.

But the gist is of course given by J. L. Speranza, directly from the Swimming-Pool Library.

"Students are expected to web-cam a lot, and e-text each other. Not the Faculty who shouldn't be bothered".

"The syllabus is totally in Greek, with a sprinkling of Latin -- all our texts are either Greek or 'should-have-been' Greek."

"The idea is the well-rounded Gricean".

Etc.