Griceus, the Epicurean

by JLS
for the GC

--- NOT "Marius"!

This is table of content of Schoolfield's thesis -- for you to see that the good of it (or the excellent of it, rather) is in the latter sections where he stops being exegetical and starts to play with his rich imagination onto things like the Epicurean Grice in us all!

www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/.../1/Grice%20paper%20Final%20Draft.doc

[Grice: Rationality and Conversation]

Matthew Schoolfield

1: [Grice's] Theory [of conversation]

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Grice’s Theory of Conversational Implicature

1.3. a. Epistemology and
---- b. Testability of [Gricean] Theory

2: Criticisms, Alternatives and Neo-Gricean Theory

2.1 Kasher and Hintikka: Rationality as the Basis for Conversation

2.2 Pre-Eminent Schools of Thought

2.2.1 Neo-Griceans

2.2.1.1 Martinich

2.2.1.2 Levinson

2.2.1.3 Leech

[...]

2.3 Davis: The Anti-Gricean


3: Conversational Goals

3.1 [ALLEGED] Explanatory
---- Failures of [Gricean] Theory

3.2 Social Norms as Presumed Goals

3.3 The Communicative Goal

3.4 The Suasive Goal

3.4.1 Seller-Consumer Relationship

3.4.2 The Bargainer Relationship

3.5 The Epicurean Goal

3.6 Exclusivity, Exhaustiveness, and Conclusion


4: Implicature within Goal-Oriented Conversation

4.1 Quantity:
Make Your Contribution as Informative as Is Required

4.1.1 "Some, Not All"

4.1.2 Tautologies

4.1.3 Other Violations

4.2 Quality:

4.2.1 "One Should Make His or Her
Contribution One That Will Not Express
Something False"

4.2.2 "Do Not Express That for Which
You Lack Adequate Evidence"

4.3 Relation: Respond Relevantly

4.4 Manner:

4.4.1 "Avoid Unnecessary (or Excessive)
Obscurity of Expression"

4.4.2 Avoid Ambiguity

4.4.3 Avoid Unnecessary Prolixity

4.4.4 Avoid Unnecessary Disorder