Grice's Heritage

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    _Paul Grice's Heritage_, proceedings from a conference held at the Centre for
    Semiotic & Cognitivie Studies, at the University of San Marino, Italy. Ed. by
    G. Cosenza. Bruxelles, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. Semiotic & Cognitive
    Studies Series, vol. 9 (Series editors: U. Eco & P. Violi). ISBN 2503513190.

    I append below: (A) the references to Sperber's & Wilson's _Relevance_ -- in
    the essays by Leonardi, Neale, Sbisa, Hanks, and Bertuccelli-Papi --; (B) the
    general table of contents -- with sections specified; and (C) some further
    selected references.

    Cheers,

    JL
    J L Speranza

    ===

    (A) References to _Relevance_:

    (a) Leonardi (pp. 45, 51):

         "My account is sympathetic to Grice's. [My] understanding
          makes my account very far from that of Sperber & Wilson [... ]
          who drastically simplify the logic and conversation apparatus
          by Grice." (p. 45, ref. on p. 51).

    (b) Neale (pp. 139, 180, 184):

         [Re: 'disambiguation'] Sperber & Wilson ask
         us to compare "I have had breakfast" and "I have
         been to Tibet" -- different temporal domains are
         needed for proper understanding). [...] The morals
         from such examples are that the same sort of
         principles that play a role in the theory of
         conversational implicature ought to have an
         equally important role in a theory that purports
         to characterise the proposition straightforwardly
         expressed by an utterance" (p. 139).

        "It has been noted that aspects of what is said
        (the content of a ground-floor speech act) must
        often be worked out in [the manner of a conversational
        implicature] (Note 11: See e.g. Sperber &
        Wilson ... and Carston ...)" (p. 158, note on p. 181)

        "There is a further complication for Grice: as
        Sperber & Wilson ... have argued in detail, the
        precise content of what U said -- and for that
        matter what U conventionally implicated -- by
        uttering a sentence that means "p" is often
        underdetermined by the fact that the sentence
        means "p"" (p. 180)

    (c) Sbisa (pp. 192, 206):

        [Re: Grice's example of Herod and Salome. Herod
        has his guards bring the head of St John the Baptist
        to Salome. Is Harod meaNNing something?] The
        example is considered by Grice as a case of
        meaNing, while others have maintained that it is a
        case of meaNNing in which, contrary to Grice's
        analysis, one of the three original Gricean conditions
        is revealed to be superfluous (Sperber & Wilson, p.
        29)" (p. 192, ref. on p. 206)
         
    (d) Hanks (pp. 217, 234):

         "One feature of what we call 'common sense' is that,
         although it encyclopedic, it is not organised in any
         fixed way. Rather, it's subject to ongoing reorganisation
         according to the practical manner at hand. Here I
         believe the emphasis placed on relevance by
         Sperber and Wilson ... is on the mark. It is the
         relevancy structure of my practical engagement
         that determined which parts of my background
         knowledge are put in play." (p. 217, note on p. 234)

    (e) Bertuccelli-Papi (pp. 247, 281):

       "Grice assumed without any further discussion
        an idealised view of the speaker which Sperber and
        Wilson later phrased as an 'efficient information
        processing device', where the term 'information'
        is restricted to _factual_ information." (p. 247)

         "Sperber and Wilson have further stressed the
        cognitive function of attitudes in determining the
        proposition actually expressed by an utterance. [Quote
        from _Relevance_, p. 74, follows] In Sperber &
         Wilson's hypothesis, there are attitudes that are
        marked off by a special form of _storage_: belief
        is the most important attitude." (quote from _Relevance_,
        p. 75, follows]." p. 251

    ==

    (B)

    General Table of Contents (with sections specified):

     1. G. Cosenza, 'Some limities & possibilities of Grice's account of meaning &
     communication'.
         Sections:
         1. Beyond the Homeric struggle
         2. Circularity
         3. Gricean _pre_-semantics
         4. Grice's paradigm of communication
         5. The addressee's role
         6. Communication that is 'transparent'
         7. Ideality in analysis

     2. P. Leonardi, 'The act of meaning'.
         Sections:
         1. The conditions for meaNNing
         2. The nature of non-natural meaning
         3. Meaning & intending

    3. E. Picardi, 'Compositionality'.

    4. A. M. Kemmerling, 'Gricy actions'.
        Sections:
        1. M-intentions & their structure
        2. The Gricean mechanism
        3. Illocutionary intentions & the 'recognition-of-desire-
            leads-to-satisfaction-of-desire' structure
        4. Austin on illocutionary acts
        5. Gricy actions introduced
        6. The dispensability of conventions (& intentions)
        7. Concluding remarks.

    5. B. F. Loar, 'The supervenience of social meaning on utterer's meaning'.
          Sections:
          1. Explication vs. conceptual supervenience
          2. Internalised grammar
          3. Grammar & convention.

    6. A. Avramides, 'Grice and the social aspects of language'.
         Sections:
         1. Grice & utterer's meaning.
         2. Superficial similarity, deep difference
         
    7. S. Neale, 'Implicature & colouring'.

    8. M. Sbisa, 'Intentions -- from the _other_ side'.
         Sections:
         1. The problem.
         2. The analysis of meaNNing
             1. Focus on the addressee
              2. Meaning from the _other_ side.
         3. The Cooperative Principle
             1. Focus on the addressee
             2. Implicatures from the _other_ side
         4. Utterer, addressee -- as 'persons'
             1. Persons: value, and rationality
         5. Concluding remarks

    9. W. F. Hanks, 'Exemplary natives & what they know'.
         Sections:
         1. Introduction
         2. Conceptual analysis, ethnography -- & common sense.
         3. Two faces of rationality in conversation
             1. Rationally speaking: the 'in order to' motive
              2. Rationalised hearing
         4. Concluding remarks.

    10. S. Marcus, 'The conflictual aspect of Grice's Cooperative Principle'.
         Sections:
         1. Conversation involves both common & different aims.
         2. The synergetic-conflictual structure of communication processes.
         3. The place of imprecision in Grice's approach
         4. Conjugate pairs & a new conversational maxim: be meaningful.
         5. The conflict between shortness & semantic noise.
         6. Grice's maxims between cooperation & conflict

    11. M. Bertuccelli-Papi, 'Where Grice feared to tread: inferring attitudes &
    emotions'.
         Sections:
         1. On the nature of attitudes
             1. The logico-semantic tradition
             2. The pragmatic tradition
             3. The social psychological tradition
             4. A definition.
        2. The function of attitudes
            1. The scalarity of attitudes
            2. The representation of attitudes
            3. Types of attitudes
                1. Ethical attitudes
                 2. Emotional attitudes.
        3. Emotions
           1. On the nature of emotions
           2. Strategic vs. spontaneous manifestations
           3. The lexicalisation of emotions
           4. Described and invoked emotions
           5. Emotion inferencing
              1. Principles of inferencing, triggers, & strategies
       4. Concluding remarks.

    ==

    (C) Some Selected References:

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    DAVIDSON, D. A nice derangement of epitaphs. In PGRICE
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    WOW
                         Meaning revisited. In WOW
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    OCHS-KEENAN E. The universality of conversational implicature. In Kasher
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