S. Attardo writes:
"Subject: Neo- vs. Post- Gricean pragmatics"
"Can anyone point to the first use in
print of the terms Neo- and Post-Gricean
pragmatics?"
Interesting query. I don't think I can point to the first use. (And how
many entries for 'neo-[something]' are there in the OED?). For what it's
worth, below are the first ten "Google" hits for both collocations --
'neo-Gricean pragmatics' and 'post-Gricean pragmatics' -- plus for plain
"neo-Gricean" and "post-Gricean".
While both 'neo-Gricean' and 'post-Gricean' indicate a divergence with
plain 'Gricean' (for: why qualify otherwise?) one is not sure that there is
something _unifying_ *all*, say, _neo-Gricean_ approaches.
Of some interest would be to contrast the use of 'neo-Gricean' and
'post-Gricean' with the plain, conservative, good ole 'Gricean' (as in the
subtitles of Avramides's and Davis's books -- and essays like Yu's -- refs.
below). In some works, the use of 'neo-Gricean' is justified when the
author covers terrain which is merely _inspired_ by the work of Grice -- or
that Grice never actually covered (Atlas?). 'neo-Gricean' I like. It seems
to be modelled on philosophical labels such as 'neo-Kantianism' or
'neo-Aristotelian', but recall that in Oxford authors such as Bradley and
Bosanquet were seldom called 'neo-Hegelians', but plain 'Hegelians'.
'Post-Gricean' especially contrasts with _pre-Gricean_, as in Horn's
"implicature" in his 'Greek Grice: a brief survey of proto-conversational
rules in the History of Logic' (CLS 5) or his attempt to echo Mcgarrigle
from Lodge's novel in _Legacy of Grice_:
"I shall concentrate on the first 2,300 years
[of Gricean cooperation] and focus -- in the spirit
of Mcgarrigle (to appear) -- on the influence of
Grice on Aristotle". (Horn, in Hall, p. 454).
My favourite pre-Gricean authors being William of Ockham and J. S. Mill
with his 'sousentendus'.
There's also the use of the even more exact "Grice's": as in Wilson &
Sperber's 'On Grice's theory of conversation" (rather than _on the Gricean
theory of conversation_) or the essay they cite by Ziff, "On Grice's
account of meaning" (rather than Yu's "Gricean programme about meaning").
(The rationale for this distinction between "Grice" and "Gricean" being
ultimately _Quinean_ -- "Gricean" commits you to a _universal_).
There's also, contrasting with 'Gricean', 'para-Gricean', which is a term I
like employ to refer to authors like Oswald Ducrot, as described by
Sperber/Wilson:
"See Grice 1975, 1978. For a survey of the Gricean pragmatic
literature, see Levinson 1983: chapter 3. Attempts to spell
out the Gricean programme in more detail include Bach & Harnish
1979; Leech 1983."
to which they add:
"IN FRANCE, Ducrot (1972, 1980a, 1980b and a number of other
works) has developed a programme IN SOME WAYS COMPARABLE
TO GRICE'S." (Sperber/Wilson, _Relevance_, p. 255)
But for some it would be just as fair I guess to call Grice a
'para-Ducrotian'.
Among the Google hits below one finds M. D. Nelson's statement at:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mdnelson/CV.pdf
"Implicature & content":
"A theory of linguistic communication is a theory
of how utterances convey information.
My dissertation is an investigation into the
relationship between two components of such a
theory: a semantic theory and a pragmatic theory.
In Part 1 of the dissertation I give ageneral
discussion of the semantics/pragmatics distinction
and articulate and defend a neo-Gricean conception
of linguistic communication. In Part 2 I apply
this neo-Gricean conception to a Naive Russellian
account of propositional attitude ascribing sentences."
(Advisor: S. Soames)."
which understandably does not really tell us in what way Nelson's approach
is "_neo-_" Gricean, rather than plain 'Gricean' -- other than indicating
that it was conceived _after_ (or in the manner of, or inspired by) some
seminal "Gricean" paper by Grice himself, of course. Nelson's approach
would not however be 'post-' in that 'post-' (unlike 'neo-')
over-implicates that something went plain wrong with plain good _ole_
'Gricean'.
Cheers,
JL
Refs:
Avramides, A. Meaning and mind: an examination of a Gricean account of
language. MIT
Atlas JD. The Neo-Gricean theory of presupposition. In L. Horn/G. Ward,
Handbook of Pragmatics. Blackwell.
Cummins R. The Neo-Griceans. Section in _Mental representation & meaning_. MIT
Davis W A. Implicature: the Gricean theory. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy.
Hall K. Legacy of Grice. CLS 16.
Horn LR. Hamburgers & truth: why Gricean inference is Gricean. In Hall,
Legacy of Grice.
Mcgarrigle, Persse. To appear. The influence of T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare.
London: Lecky, Windrush and Bernstein. Cited in Lodge.
Lodge, David, Small World. New York: Warner.
Yu P. On the Gricean programme about meaning. Linguistics & philosophy, vol. 3
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Appendix:
A. "Neo-Gricean pragmatics".
First 10 hits for Google (out of 140)
1. Y. Huang, Long-distance reflexivization, optimality theory & neo-Gricean
pragmatics
http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/conf/7Longd.pdf
2. http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/conf/prelprog.htm
3. neo-Gricean
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-823528-3
4. Y. Huang, neo-Gricean
http.//www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-823529-1
5. [Huang ...] advances the neo-Gricean pragmatic
theory of anaphora he has developed ...
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/cl/slals/huang.htm
6. S Blackwell, Anaphora interpretations [...] and the neo-Gricean
pragmatic theory, Journal of Pragmatics 32
http://www.elsevier.com/cdweb/journals/03782166/
7. Neo-Gricean pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics 32
http://www.elsevier.com/cdweb/journals/03782166/
8. LINGUIST List 13.501 Neo-Gricean pragmatics ...
http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-501.html
9. Sperber & Wilson's Relevance Theory and competing post-Gricean and
neo-Gricean ... with grammatical and lexical structure, and the proper
situation of pragmatics ...
http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/linginst/Courses/semantics.html
10. introduction to pragmatics ... mainly from a (neo-Gricean) perspective.
http://sppo.ohio-state.edu/faculty/schwenter.1/
B. 10 first Google hits for "post-Gricean pragmatics" (out of 35).
1. IPrA, 8th Conference. Temporality & post-Gricean pragmatics
http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/8th_conference.html
2. ... developments in Sperber & Wilson's Relevance Theory and competing
post-Gricean ... with
grammatical and lexical structure, and the proper situation of pragmatics ...
http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/linginst/Courses/semantics.html
3. 8th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE. Katarzyna JASZCZOLT (Cambridge
Univ.), Temporality and post-Gricean pragmatics.
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/emca/ipra8.htm
4. Implicature: Neo- and Post-Gricean
http://sppo.ohio-state.edu/faculty/schwenter.1/ 83802Syllabus.pdf
5. post-Gricean pragmatics, in particular Sperber's and Wilson's theory of
Relevance
http://www.isc.cnrs.fr/cilisc2eng.htm
6. School of Languages | Research
Formal semantics Interests include pragmatics (neo- and post-Gricean)
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/edusport/ languages/html/research.htm
7. LINGUIST List 10.1596 (F Yus's review of Turner)
... currently essential in post-Gricean approaches...
http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-1596.html
8. Drawing on post-Gricean pragmatics [...] Pettersson develops [in _Verbal
Art_] the idea of the verbal text
http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/2000/petterss.htm
9. The analysis of communication as an interaction among agents needs a
thorough discussion
in a post-Gricean pragmatics ...
http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/AgentsWorld/abstract.html
10. Post-Gricean pragmatics
http://www.uni-giessen.de/~ga1007/Vorlesungsverzeichnisse/WS1997-98.htm
C. First 10 hits for "Neo-Gricean" out of 175
1. http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/conf/7Longd.pdf
2. http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/conf/prelprog.htm
3. http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-823528-3
4. Interpreting long-distance reflexives: A neo-Gricean pragmatic approach.
Yan Huang. Department of Linguistics. University of Reading. ...
http://www.udel.edu/pcole/Yan_Huang.html
5. Yan Huang
(1991) A neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora.
(1996) Anaphora in sentence and in discourse: A neo-Gricean pragmatic
approach.
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/cl/slals/huang.htm
6. Anaphora in sentence and in discourse: A neo-Gricean pragmatic
approach. ... Huang, Y. (1991). A neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora.
...
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/spb/b.html
7. Yan Huang. University of Reading. Anaphora in sentence and in discourse:
a neo-Gricean pragmatic approach.
http://www.w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~krueger/abstract-38.html
8. Michael Nelson
In Part 1 of the dissertation I give a general discussion of the
semantics/pragmatics
distinction and articulate and defend a neo-Gricean conception.
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mdnelson/CV.pdf
9. http://www.elsevier.com/cdweb/journals/03782166/
10. OUP USA: ToC: Anaphora
neo-Gricean
http://www.oup-usa.org/toc/tc_0198235283.html
C. First 10 hits for "post-Gricean" (out of 35)
1. http://sppo.ohio-state.edu/faculty/schwenter.1/ 83802Syllabus.pdf
2. Grice's notion of conversational implicature in the light of recent
developments
in Sperber & Wilson's Relevance Theory and competing post-Gricean and neo ...
http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/linginst/Courses/semantics.html
3. http://www.brighton.ac.uk/edusport/ languages/html/research.htm
4. ...currently essential in post- Gricean approaches like 'relevance theory'
(Sperber and Wilson, 1986/95). (F. Yus's review of Turner's book)
http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-1596.html
5. Bhattacharya
Interests:
Other: Post-Gricean ...
http://www.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/persfly.cgi?bhatana
6. An essay in post-Gricean neo-emotivism.
http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/Altham/
7. http://www.isc.cnrs.fr/cilisc2eng.htm
8. approaching the distinction from a pragmatic point of view, namely that
of post-Gricean relevance theory.
http://www.isc.cnrs.fr/reb/reboulabsart.htm
9. http://www.pscw.uva.nl/emca/ipra8.htm
10. http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/8th_conference.html
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