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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

A Well-Rounded Gricean

The Department of Grice Studies at Griceland is looking for a full-time woman.
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  1. Larry TapperFebruary 2, 2010 at 3:57 PM

    I suppose that would rule out the Chevalier Eon de Beaumont, who was a part-time woman.

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  2. Luigi SperanzaFebruary 2, 2010 at 4:46 PM

    Exactly. I expect you read the larger, "Grice Studies", because with so many things to teach, we surely need all the talent we can get.

    "Associate Woman" and "Full Woman" welcomed too.

    Oddly, Grice defines implicature in terms of "a man who says that p, implicates that q", etc. I wrote elsewhere. Surely a woman would disimplicate, rather.

    Deborah Tannen, a full-time woman, has analysed how Griceans tend to be male, and Austinians girls.

    She notes that 'be perspicuous' is usually misinterpreted by women, and vice versa. "They think they are being clear -- as mud, I add. Every time".

    She wrote her PhD while a student of Grice at Berkeley, and she's been seen in the Berkeley Bay area and Washington since. A brilliant woman.

    Etc.

    Gender studies have appealed Griceans of sorts. There's a lot of implicature which is cancellable in Grice Studies -- as Dale Spender in Man-Made Language makes clear.

    To use a phrase by Kramer, Grice may well be said to be a DWEM, but then Plato and Socrates, too. Etc.

    Oddly, one of my favourite books at the Swimming-Pool Library I bought at Oxford's High Street.

    It's called, "The Oxford Book of Oxford" -- I read it while staying at the Randolph. That sort of read. Light, and -- well, on topic. It is by a man turned onto a woman, J. Morris. She has some good quotes in it. One poem by Hegelians of the Pater/Bradley generation is particularly funny. And it's paperback, which helps.

    Similarly, when I was at Harvard -- staying on the river -- I amused myself in the hotel by reading, The Harvard Book -- an old edition, and learning all about "Philosophy 4", one of the funniest stories I ever read.

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