
Strategy 6: avoid obscurity of expression Strategy 4: do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence Strategy 3: do not say what you believe to be false Strategy 2: do not make your contribution more informative than is required Strategy 1: make your contribution as informative as is required (for the Anyway, Grice'sĬatalogue (and S/W were celebrating the first ten years in their 1977 To be rather selfish - but I'm surely misinterpreting him. Love some of my neighbours MORE than myself. Never got very much convinction from THAT motto by Jesus, since I tend to What W & S are trying instead, is follow Jesus in saying, "Nay, it allĪmounts to, Love thy neighbour as thyself". Looks like the Ten Commandments received by Moises after crossing the Red

How do Wilson and Sperber proceed? Let us have a look at the decalogue. Tries to make the utterance as relevant as possible may be summed up under SperberĪnd Wilson's single axiom of relevance, the speaker Indeed all of the above communicative principles The Decalogue of Grice (below) into one single principle, "The utterer hasĭone his best to be maximally relevant" (W/S, p.170, in the Werth reprint). J Fantin is concerned to what extent Wilson & Sperber succeed in subsuming

Thyself, and then thou canst forget about the dull "And Jesus said, "Love thy neighbour like thou lovest On The Reduction of Grice's Maxims according to Keep On Lovin' Ya: Does Relevance Subsume It All? A Neo-TestamentarianĪnalogy - to J Fantin. Previous message: J L Speranza: "Re: Questions concerning the relationship between RT & Grice".Next message: J L Speranza: "A Grice-oriented RT bibliography checklist".

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