Steve Nicolle's posting of 26 May prompted a number of interesting
responses both to the list as a whole and, I gather, to him privately,
several of which he has addressed in his more recent message of 9 June.
However, both Christoph Unger (on the list) and I (privately) have raised a
query which has not yet been answered. In his first posting, Steve said "I
have seen a few neat analyses where the interplay of the Q-, I-, and
M-principles seems to make specific predictions which a RT analysis would
not be able to make (as far as I can see). This is the kind of level of
falsifiabilty that critics of RT have been looking for." If true, this is
important and something that we relevance theorists should take seriously.
So, please, could you give some examples of such neo-Gricean analyses?
Best wishes,
Robyn Carston
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