Logic and Conversation

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Logic and Conversation is a seminal philosophical paper by H. P. Grice that introduces the theory of conversational implicature and the cooperative principle in language use.

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instanceOf academic article
philosophical paper
author H. P. Grice NERFINISHED
Herbert Paul Grice NERFINISHED
centralIdea speakers and hearers follow a cooperative principle in conversation
what is implicated can differ from what is explicitly said
citedAs Grice 1975
distinguishes what is implicated
what is said
editorOfPublication Jerry L. Morgan NERFINISHED
Peter Cole NERFINISHED
field linguistics
philosophy
pragmatics
hasImpactOn the analysis of everyday conversation
the study of indirect speech
influenced cognitive science
communication theory
philosophy of language
pragmatics in linguistics
relevance theory NERFINISHED
speech act theory
introducesConcept Gricean maxims NERFINISHED
conversational implicature
cooperative principle
maxim of manner
maxim of quality
maxim of quantity
maxim of relation
language English
mainTopic communication
conversational implicature
cooperative principle
implicature
meaning
philosophy of language
pragmatics
partOfSeries William James Lectures on Logic and Conversation NERFINISHED
presentedAs William James Lectures NERFINISHED
presentedAt Harvard University NERFINISHED
proposesTheory Gricean theory of meaning
theory of conversational implicature
publicationYear 1975
publishedIn Syntax and Semantics, Volume 3: Speech Acts NERFINISHED
publisher Academic Press NERFINISHED
typeOfImplicature generalized conversational implicature GENERATED
particularized conversational implicature GENERATED
yearPresented 1967

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H. P. Grice notableWork Logic and Conversation