Our main aim in this paper is to show that constructing an adequate theory of communication involves going beyond Grice’s notion of speaker’s meaning. After considering some of the diffi culties raised by Grice’s three-clause defi nition of speaker’s meaning, we argue that the characterisation of ostensive communication introduced in relevance theory can provide a conceptually unifi ed explanat...

Twelve patients (17 feet) with progressive neuromuscular planovalgus foot deformity underwent an extra-articular subtalar arthrodesis with the combined Batchelor-Grice procedure. All patients were ambulant and received conservative treatment with braces and special orthopaedic shoes before the operation. Postoperatively the feet were immobilized in short leg casts for 6 weeks. Evaluation was ba...

Extending the proposal made by Schulz (2003), we put forward a pragmatic account of the meaning of existential and universal FC items, where the ‘ignorance or indifference’ inference triggered by the former and the ‘universal’ inference triggered by the latter are treated as implicatures obtained by standard Gricean reasoning formalised in terms of the two operations grice and competence. On th...

Extending the proposal made by Schulz (2003), we put forward a pragmatic account of the meaning of existential and universal FC items, where the ‘ignorance or indifference’ inference triggered by the former and the ‘universal’ inference triggered by the latter are treated as implicatures obtained by standard gricean reasoning formalized in terms of the two operations grice and competence. On th...

Starting from Carlos Gussenhoven’s proposal Gussenhoven02 that intonational meaning be understood in terms of three biological codes, this paper suggests an augmentation of that proposal to connect human experience of these biological phenomena to the process of spoken communication. Under this scenario, the codes give rise to a set of Conversational Implicatures, similar to those defined by H....

The present study aimed to analyze the stylistic features especially conversational implicature of poem “Jabberwocky” written by Lewis Carroll. Implicature theory was cooperative principle Paul Grice use analyze. Two reasons support uses this theory. method used Documentation with note-taking and highlighting technique. First, taken from novel entitled Through Looking-Glass What Alice Found The...

RESUMO Apesar de terem sido estudos realizados por autores diferentes e certa forma independente um do outro, as teorias das Implicaturas Paul Grice dos Atos Discurso Indiretos John Searle não apenas estão intimamente ligadas como, na verdade, são complementares entre si, modo que se mostra crucial importância a compreensão dois juntos, fim obter maior domínio da noção “não literalidade” enunci...

In a replication and extension of Grice (2004), participants in the current study rated themselves and other known individuals on scales constructed from their own personal constructs and on marker items for the Big Five model personality traits. Confirmatory components analyses revealed excellent fit for the Big Five Model when applied to aggregate trait ratings but highly variable fit when ap...