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Grice
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Grice  (grs), H(erbert) Paul 1913-1988.
British logician best known for his studies of the pragmatics of communication and his theory of conversational maxims.

Grice·an (grs-n) adj.

grice [ˈgraɪs]
vb
(Non-sporting Hobbies / Trainspotting) (intr) (of a railway enthusiast) to collect objects or visit places connected with trains and railways
n
(Non-sporting Hobbies / Trainspotting) an object collected or place visited by a railway enthusiast
[origin obscure]
gricer  n
gricing  n


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Levin) and Gricean pragmatics, and the epochal shift to the cognitivistic paradigm George Lakoff and Mark Johnson brought about with their book Metaphors We Live By (1980), soon followed by works by other outstanding cognitivists, such as Mark Turner (later in collaboration with Gilles Fauconnier), Eve Sweetser, Bipin Indurkhya, Zoltan Kovecses et al.
Topics include (for example) the Gricean approach to pragmatics; the theoretical foundations of lexical semantics; and statistical approaches underlying automated speech recognition.
happened because) speakers wanted to avoid confusion as to whether the referent was general or specific (the social-conventions-tendency, especially, the Gricean principle of manner).
 
 
 
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