Some annotated points about Schoolfield on Grice

Some points about his reference list in his MSc list online. Naturally, the best bits of his MSc come straight from his brilliant mind: the Epicurean Goal, etc. -- and other beauties that fill the latter bits of his thesis. But here are the references he gives:


Bird, Graham. “Speech Acts and Conversation – II.” The Philosophical Quarterly 29.115 (1979): 142-152.

----- This Bird is a genius. This is entitled II because I belongs to Holdcrotf. Schoolfield is a Scot so no wonder his bias on Scots-based publications like the Philosophical Quarterly.

Bultinck, Bert. Numerous Meanings: The Meaning of English Cardinals and the Legacy of Paul Grice. London: Elsevier, 2005.

----- An excellent treatment of Joan Rivers not lying when she says she is a teenager.

Carr, Jimmy and Lucy Greeves. The Naked Jape: Uncovering the Hidden World of Jokes. London: Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books, 2006.

----- Kramer will like that.

Chapman, Siobhan. Paul Grice, Philosopher and Linguist. New York: Pelgrave Macmillan 2005.

---- She said she hoped philosophers would not be 'offended' by the "... and linguist" tag!


Davis, Wayne A. Implicature: Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

---- This, grand as it stands, is in a series. A series that is mainly created to attack Oxford!

Gauker, Christopher. “Situated Inference versus Conversational Implicature.” Noûs 35.2 (2001): 163-189.

---- The 'versus' has an antagonistic ring to it, as I hope you'll agree. But he is a mild, charming fellow, Go:ker.

Grandy, Richard E. “On Grice on Language.” The Journal of Philosophy 86.10 (1989): 514-525.

---- This was presented in a symposium called, not "Grice", but "The thought of Paul Grice" -- versus his looks one presumes. It was chaired by Bennett and held in New York.

Grice, H. P. Studies in the Way of Words. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

----- This is the book that Grice was working on with Harvard. Grice died in 1988. The book came out in 1989, making Grice a pre-humous author.

---. “Logic and Conversation.” Syntax and Semantics, vol 3. Eds. Peter Cole and J. Morgan. New York: Academic Press, 1975.

----- This is the handwritten note for his third William James lecture. Someone took it, typed it. Later the typo reached Cole and Morgan -- and -- (not necessarily in that order: Davidson and Harman).

Haviland, John B. “Minimal Maxims: Cooperation and Natural Conversation in Zinacantan.” Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos 4.1 (1988): 79-114.

--------- Zinacantan is "somewhere in Mexico". In Spanish, 'implicature' translates as "implicaturA", so now you know.

Hintikka, Jaakko. “Logic of Conversation as a Logic of Dialogue.” Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends. Eds. Richard E. Grandy and Richard Warner. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. 259-276.

--- this is in the Grice festschrift. As Bennett recalls (words): Clarendon would NEVEr publish a festschrift on Grice, so the idea occurred to Grandy and Warner to have an acronym.

H
P
G
R
I
C
E

Hail
Paul,
Great
Rationalist
In
Conversational
Enterprises.

Hello,
Paul?
Good
Reasons
In
Conversational
Exchanges

"Higher
Proto-thetic
Game-Theoretical
Rationality
In
Conversational
Exchanges"

etc.

Holdcroft, David. “Speech Acts and Conversation – I.” The Philosophical Quarterly 29.115 (1979): 125-141.

--- this is the thing Bird replied to. This essay by Holdcroft is so briliant it hurts. Holdcroft let me have ALL his works on this and that. There is a BEAUTIFUL thing he delivered for the Journal of the University of Leeds. He wrote on Grice more charitably, brilliantly, and spontaneously than most of the stuffier Oxonian colleagues by Grice.

Kasher, Asa. “Conversational Maxims and Rationality.” Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 43. Ed. Asa Kasher. Syntese Library 89. Ed. Jaakko Hintikka. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1976. 197-216.

------ He repr. this in what I call "Kasher Number 6" -- alla Chanel, i.e. the "Implicature" volume in "Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, Routledge.

Leech, Geoffrey N. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman, 1983.

---- as someone objected about the title: one principle too many.

Levinson, Stephen C. Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

---- It's a Batsford paperback which helps.

Martinich, A. P. “Conversational Maxims and Some Philosophical Problems.” The Philosophical Quarterly 30.120 (1980): 215-228.

---- he also wrote on Black on Grice in Dialectica.

Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. London: Penguin Books, 1994.
Sadock, Jerrold M. “On Testing for Conversational Implicature.” Syntax and Semantic, Volume 9: Pragmatics. Ed. Peter Cole. New York: Academic Press, 1978. 281-297.
Stalnaker, Robert. “On Grandy on Grice.” The Journal of Philosophy 86.10 (1989): 526-527.

---- this is part of the symposium chaired by Bennett. I had to report it elsehwere, and it was great fun. Stalnaker is a very pleasant man. I thought I would meet a fierceful opponent but he was so polite that he makes conversation really cooperative.

Searle, John et al. (On) Searle on Conversation. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992.

---- Searle is unique in having tried (but failed) to see what Austin could have said about conversation. He was of course responsible for popularising Grice OUTSIDE philosophy, notably in his use of Grice to explain the oddity of "Can you pass me the salt container but without the salt inside?"

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Walker, Ralph C. S. “Conversational implicatures.” Meaning, Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics. Ed. Simon Blackburn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. 133-181.

---- This is an excellent work by, like Schoolfield, a Scot.

Wardhaugh, Ronald. How Conversation Works. New York: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1985.

---- A good work. But it should have an appendix -- perhaps bigger than the book, "With an appendix on the zillion times it fails to do so, i.e. work".

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