Logic and Conversation¶
Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and Conversation. Syntax and Semantics, Volume 3: Speech Acts.
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Primes¶
- Asymmetric Interface Tolerance
- In linguistics, the cooperative principle and the principle of charity are a production-side and interpretation-side asymmetry that produces long-term semantic drift.
This sourceStates the cooperative principle and conversational maxims — a production/interpretation asymmetry (with the principle of charity) producing semantic drift.
- In linguistics, the cooperative principle and the principle of charity are a production-side and interpretation-side asymmetry that produces long-term semantic drift.
- Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims
- The Cooperative Principle and its four maxims describe the normative structure of conversation: (1) participants in a cooperative exchange are assumed to make their contributions "such as required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange" — the Cooperative Principle;
This sourceGrice Logic and Conversation foundational cooperative principle implicature.
- The Cooperative Principle and its four maxims describe the normative structure of conversation: (1) participants in a cooperative exchange are assumed to make their contributions "such as required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange" — the Cooperative Principle;
- Pragmatics
- "Can you pass the salt?" is read as a request rather than a question about ability, by cooperative inference.
This sourceFoundational account of the cooperative principle, conversational maxims, and implicature, including the cancellability (defeasibility) test and the 'excellent handwriting' candidate example.
- "Can you pass the salt?" is read as a request rather than a question about ability, by cooperative inference.
- Speech Act Theory (Illocution, Perlocution)
- Speech-act theory explains what act an utterance constitutes.
This sourceGrice Logic and Conversation foundational cooperative principle implicature.
- Speech-act theory explains what act an utterance constitutes.
Domain-specific¶
- Betteridge's Law of Headlines
- The genuinely portable insight is not "Betteridge's law" but the more general mechanism it instantiates: grammatical hedging is informative about a speaker's evidentiary commitment, because under cooperative inference the choice of a weaker form when a stronger one was available signals that the stronger was not warranted
This sourceGrice's cooperative principle and maxims of quantity and quality, from which a weaker form chosen where a stronger was expected implicates lack of grounds for the stronger.
SupportedVerified against the source
- The genuinely portable insight is not "Betteridge's law" but the more general mechanism it instantiates: grammatical hedging is informative about a speaker's evidentiary commitment, because under cooperative inference the choice of a weaker form when a stronger one was available signals that the stronger was not warranted
Mechanisms¶
- Implicature Audit
- It operationalizes Grice's insight that speakers convey a great deal by conversational implicature
This sourceExplains conversational implicature as meaning conveyed through an utterance and conversational context beyond what its words conventionally say.
- It operationalizes Grice's insight that speakers convey a great deal by conversational implicature
- Sufficiency Calibration Checklist
- It operationalizes the conversational maxim of quantity: be as informative as required for the purpose, and no more.
This sourceDefines the maxim of Quantity as contributing the information the current purpose requires, without adding more than required.
- It operationalizes the conversational maxim of quantity: be as informative as required for the purpose, and no more.
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