this article aims to study an important principle in discourse analysis, which belongs to paul grice, the contemporary philosopher. he believes that in addition to giving and taking information during a conversation, people also show their cooperation with each other, and so he suggests the ‘cooperative principle’ which contains some principles of subtext. since the cooperative principle is wit...

The notions of ‘saying’ and ‘what is said’ are fundamental to Paul Grice’s work. This paper argues, however, that the versions of these notions most often attributed to Grice may not be the ones he intended. To support this claim, I examine the original typescripts of Grice’s William James Lectures, and discuss comparisons made by fellow Gricean researcher—Bob Arundale—between the lectures, ori...

Aspects of Reason offers a sketch of parts of an ambitious project to derive important philosophical consequences from the idea of a rational being, with hopes of improving on Aristotle and Kant. Jonathan Dancy offers a good account and critique of this project.1 In this review, I will mention and discuss some important things that Grice says along the way about what reasoning is, what reasons ...

Paul Grice was concerned with the way logical terms such as some, or, and and take on extralogical meanings in conversational contexts. To take one example, Grice (1989) described or as having a weak word meaning identical to formal logic’s inclusive disjunction (which is false only in the case where both disjuncts are) but as conveying in conversation a stronger speaker’s meaning corresponding...

In this paper I will be examining and evaluating three conversational implicatures from the gospel of Matthew along with their translations in Tok Pisin, a lingua franca country Papua New Guinea. My purpose examination is to evaluate whether they contain are likely communicate same truth conditional meaning translation as original. After evaluation show my proposed additions ensure that origina...